An honest man in a broken system. Hope for the best

He seems genuine

Bruh, the teacher creepy as hell

its so sad... we need more people like him..

Yeah

coz this is the RAW REAL life!!!

moonlight guk yep some mentally tolling stuff

I am chinese, but I was adopted by 2 moms. I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for them. My mental health rn isn't the best but tbh if I had to go through that. o.O. idk what I would do :o

@@Reree-gz5bg why were you adooted may i ask?

Sham Sara Me too! Yes, we can be under pressure academically sometimes, but this is to the extreme! Looking at this makes me thankful that getting into college in the U.S. is a little easier as they look at more than just grades. They look at community service, clubs and organizations and some other things too. The results of their college entrance exam (aka the GaoKao) can mean the difference between a life in poverty and a brighter future. I'm not sure if I would've suvived going to school in China growing up (especially high school)! 😣😣😣😣

@@dotmerah6713 From my perspective it's a yes but also a no at the same time. It's all depends on which career you are focusing on, anything with hand-on experience you can go to pretty much a trade school or a community college and get a license with a certified hours of practice on your belt. Anything with office or corporate you can either attend a university or community college and get the same degree, the only contrast is the name and prestige of the school and that's it. Often time employers does not delves into how great of a school you went to, it's all about experience and what you can bring to the table, not the high grades you earned in school. Given the current social economic situation a lot of us are in, you don't really need a degree from university to make 6 digits income. There are jobs out there that are willing to train you as you work and slowly build a higher salary as you become more experienced in your field. There's a saying many of my teachers have said when I was in school "It's not about WHAT you know but WHO you know." The people you surround yourself with will be the one who one day further your career. Hopes that help!

so do i

It really depends. There's still a huge premium placed on people with degrees from Ivy Leagues, but what matters more, I think, is your degree. What you need is an employer to take a chance on you and to hire you. And it's easier to do that if you have a good degree. But it is absolutely possible to get a good job at a good company just by going to your local university and doing really well and applying what you learn. There's a premium on prestige, but it's equally important to have people skills and interview skills. It's weird, but you have to show your potential employer how YOU shine as a completely unique person, and each person brings something different to the team.

Yup

me too...but generally, if she was, nothing was different after that. I remembered there were 3 students jumped from 6th floor when I was in 3rd year of highschool.

I am glad to see comments like this. But at the same time, we have to try to understand the "head instructor" in this episode: he has maybe 70 or so students to take care of. It's also tough for him to treat every kid patiently and give all of them same amount of caring.

@Ekonomen you do not really understand the meaning of having a breakdown do you? There is no option anymore to be rational and cooperative otherwise it would not be a breakdown?

Probably thinking about it. Most are too scared to commit suicide

and Cheng acts like a bit of an ass. tough love, i guess.

Thang Nguyen thanks for spoiling

@Mike McGrath a lot of times comments talk about what happened in the video, spoilers should be expected

@Mike McGrath So what do you Think Comments are for Genius. If there is a comment section that means all comments will be related to videos. 😒

true

Spoiler alert

Same

i just enrolled in high school and its like the lyceum at the university i came home at 2nd September and i had a breakdown in moms room i lost consciousness because i was crying for a half-hour straight and woke up after 2 hours i was just staring in a blank space as if im dead and thinking that i overestimated myself and i should return to my old school now im better and i keep watching this vids since yesterday and i somehow feel motivated a bit even tho now im sick and i dont have any energy to do like anything ill try to study starting tomorrow morning

@@mii_dan hey, how are you now?

@@luna-uae7180 oi its actually pretty good i enjoy it there so far but now we are on holidays so i can rest)

@@mii_dan I'm glad, and know that there are people you can talk to, you don't have to go through this alone

Timo Yea no Bruh you tripping, life is over at 20. Its just work and taxes till death

Cry..... Because. There is no point kicking if there is no hope. When all is lost not even screming helps....

I would hope so, this is borderline traumatizing

laurine Person same here..

I don’t even study and I sleep and class but still get a’s and b’s

no one asked

KC it does matter in the USA where a’s and b’s can still get you into a nice collage

@KC There's like a hundred times more kids in China all competing for the same colleges it must be crazy.

Same

Agreed.

msc14111990 I think they ate referring to secondary education, not tertiary.

@@___c5645 it is tertiary education lol its like pre-u/junior college to enter universities

SAT is really like a pop quiz compared to college entrance examination in the Asian countries.

If he went through the same thing, he’s forgotten how bad it was. Saying that, schooling changes over time. I know the teaching system in my country has changed multiple times, and since I was born it has changed twice. Maybe it was less stressful when he went. Either way, different people deal with stress different ways.

I TOTALLY AGREE! That's why I thought he was acting like a dick to her and other students by going to their houses and essentially stalking them.

He has good intentions but he doesn't understand enough

@@astraea857 Yeah. That’s pretty much what I said.

@@HawkinaBox he isnt stalking per say, the parents know the teacher very well. as he calls them everytime a mark shows up in their progress. He is only going to the students houses when he suspects something is there that affects the childs progress in school. such as video games, computers, mp3s, etc. He confiscates them and tells the family about what distracting them.

Different culture, Chinese aren't so tactile...

Welcome to the Chinese, maybe Asian in general, culture, we are not really people

And the teacher sees himself as the victim.

it felt good when her dad wasn't that stern to her as the teacher was

The competition is fierce and brutal. For context, I think in 2018 the second tier cutoff point was around 486/750 for this province, which translates to about 65%. That's good enough for a "satisfactory" grade in many countries, but only 5% above the passing grade (60%) for most Chinese school exams.

KobeR it means you’re screwed

KobeR there’s too much competition in Asia. So they look at what college you went to and pick off those went to the best and the rest will probably not find a decent paying job

@KobeR I am not from China but I'm from the Philippines, another Asian country, and I am telling you, the college/university you go to does have a great impact in your future here in Asia. When you make it to the number 1 school here A.K.A. University of the Philippines System, people already assume that you are so smart and that something great awaits for you. Our country also released a statistics showing the preference of employees when hiring and they showed that graduates from UP System and Polytechnic University of the Philippines (another great university in our country) are the most preferred and are more likely to get a job.

In fact，second-tier universities in China = you can't find a decent job. There are ordinary first-tier universities(for top about 5% students in Gaokao), first-tier universities in 211 project(about top 2%) and first-tier universities in 985 project (top 1%). Only students from 985/211 universities are easy to find decent jobs.

@Pro z How? Please elaborate.

its possible to be a good engineer but not really care about it or have passion for it. It isn't like being a doctor

grated mozza Yeah as a medical student you can easily be a good doctor but not care for it. All we do is take in heaps and heaps of information and use that information to diagnose, treat and assist others. Many medical doctors do not enjoy their work but are still excellent at what they do.

Well the good thing is your friend does have a talent (and a money-making one no less), so as long as he continues to improve in his chosen vocation he can probably return to China in due course and make a killing in the fashion business there! As virtually all working-age adults in China will tell, in the end no one gives a damn about Gaokao (the college entrance exam) if you can bring in the dough!

Rich 91 well, there are people who do enjoy these fields in particular - I know many of my fellow classmates who are interested in these specialities/ super specialities. Can’t really generalize, but then this applies to every field in life.

XW Ah same

same

Same here

Same here

Fam I have my exam in 5 months and I'm studying for it like I've never done before

Acha?

Shruti because the shandong province is quite rural. There isn’t any future outside of university and everybody knows it. That is why everybody’s so tense about academic performance. There’s not easy solution to this problem as China suffers from over population and a horrible university spots to students ratio.

AFB China system edycation is not allowed for imagination, as a firigner and family live in china for 10 years, my 2 kids went to local best chinese school in that town and you are not allloeed to have imagination in the school. If the teacher gave you homework to write story, then the story for all the student in the class have to be same, same opening paragrafs, same ending and the same plot of story. This lately my daughter just share me her experience in english class where that time the teacher were teaching them about subject for chicken...so for the test during that day, tthe students have a Q&A paper to test their knowledge for that day, there is 1question came out and ask about what the dinner you had last night and mys daughter answer was I ahd spaggethi for my dinner... and yeah...the answer was unacceptable and she suppose to answer it i had dinner with fried chicken! 😂😂...then her grade for this question was being X by the teacher...😂😂

@Classical Lover 😂😂, for them not horrible, because there are too many students in 1 claas, every class only have 1 teacher...if all the student have their own imagination, the teacher will be very exhausted to grading the homework. In china local school, you can't imagine how much the homework they gave to the students. For primary kids it is very common they sleep around 9-10 in the evening for doing homework. Imagine for the middle and high school student 😂😂😂. Even when they have their meal or doing their exercise they still bring along their book for study. Some best school even they don't have holiday, you still have extra lessons on sunday. That is why all chinese student are very tough and very smart. There is 1 time my daughter got 94 for her math, the teacher still not satisfy because on that day, almost whole class got 100 😂😂. I told the teacher that I am very satisfy with the 94. The only problem my daugjter facing was his quick counting ( means when the teacher write calculation aboit math, the student without thinhking already know the answer and my daughter have to calculate first). Apparently all this kids, a lot of them already have extra lesson for math aince in the kindergarten 😢😢😢. Now can you imagine why all yhe chinese very exell in yheir academic. I can write a ling story about how the education system in china because there are a lot of amazing experience that make me very admire the kids in china.

AFB Einstein had a lot of knowledge in math to come up with his e=mc2 formula. High school, BSc and MS degree are mostly acquiring knowledge and proving you know how to apply in an test. Those students are trying to beat out 10 million other students for limited space in university. It is brutal, try taking the test. Those who “fail “ are not dumb. They go abroad and get into university and graduate with high grades.

Nah. Hes a genius. Hes allowed to say that. On the other hand, without knowledge, imagination is useless. Both has to go hand in hand.

@@eleethtahgra7182 Him being allowed to say that just because he is a genius makes no sense. Curiosity drives Imagination. You can't force them into a mindset and justify it as Imagination.

Yes, indeed. 36:57

than also please don't put your comment in such irresponsible way. I had my middle school in China, their intensity cannot be compared to uni entrance exams, non the less there were lots of hardships. My middle school physics teacher has been my inspiration and so were some of other subject leads. There are definitely so much more kind hearted out there, please have a open mind set on such documentaries.

Chances are if you live in the West you are having it a lot better than many East Asians LOL It is not just the Chinese. Koreans and Japanese are known to be crazy when it comes to education as well.

Just FYI, this particular school is extremely notorious even in China as a military-style drilling camp for prospective exam takers, and many of the students are in fact re-takers (they screwed up once, so now it's really do or die). I know, I know, we can debate all day whether the school's style actually helps or hurts the very cause they're working towards, but it's hard to say, no?

they need some discipline though

@@edukid1984 I mean the people who don't clear this exam still is way more than the meagre elite ones who do. Do you see all those millions of failures straight up living a failed life? To be honest doing farm work, or doing blue collar or menial white collar jobs may seem bad, but if the major labor force of the country is doing it you have a lot of support. The Chinese according to me have insane expectations and their definition of success is only and only the top of the corporate pyramid. To get there you will not only need a good gaokao score, you will need connections, referrals, and slave more harder under bosses than you will in the fields or at a factory. Because the stake is way higher in corporate. The higher you go, the more people and colleagues WANT you to fail, in the other hand the team of societal failures who work in factories and fields are actually going to have loads of friends and human support. China still is a first world country, meaning even a minimum wage job is enough to live with basic accomodation like healthcare, housing, food, etc. If you look deeper, the once who failed in life there actually might be substantially living a happier and stress free life than the successful ones. 🙂 Just my opinion

Ikr

Or how bad they have it in the East.

The Gaokao brings the best out of kids. It breeds discipline and work ethic... skills that they will use in their lives.

Gentleman Martin Haggis 69 I don’t really think so dude.There’s more to life than paper and marks.They have their place but it doesn’t determine your destiny

Gentleman Martin Haggis 69 I agree they surely will develop discipline but to me it’s developed out of fear and pressure.Something like that can surely be damaging to a person.And in the video you can tell just how painful it is for the students.There’s so much crying that is really just sad

@@ultimatedrago4909 Exactly. It teaches them to be tough and brace the pain.

Just shows you how pathetic western youth is. Talking about their phone as almost something neccesary to survive. 🤣🤣

@@revolucionarionacional623 just shows how pathetic the Chinese education system is, pushing students to suicide, and judging students on how much they are willing to survive than actual education. Nice one bud.

@@Ongaurdforthee9 You say this, but at least they have an equal chance of getting into the best universities- whereas in the West only the rich kids who can afford tutors and SAT classes go to the Ivies. Say what you want, but I‘d take China’s system any day.

@@raginbakin1430 dont classify the west's education based off your knowledge of the American one.

It's just a necessary preparation for real life

@@cheemsoftheocean7569 western people don't want to accept it

I was raised by rather strict parents. They always made it clear that there were more or less prosperous career options. But they still valued my tallents and my mental health. While they pushed me into a prosperous future, they always minded my mental health and personal intressest. Sometimes all a failing child needs is a propper hug, some incouraing words and a nice cup of tee to give them strength amd energy for future study secions. When stress seems to be the indicator for the failure, further pressure from the parents might not be beneficial.

Kyo Shiroma It’s really quite unhealthy psychologically. The fact that one test basically determines outcomes for everything is an embarrassment

Kyo Shiroma you apparently don’t want to accept the high suicide rate or hatred of life

sameeee ik this comment is late but here's a reminder of watching this vid

keep watching dude 😎

motivation.

That cry of Li Hao's father when he his son's score, that's just golden.

They treat their kids as an investment. What about the kid's happinness?

And black fathers dont even claim they kids

@@jakereis1491 yo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

They do it for themselves, and not their kids!😡

R M i can feel you

But be cool ,you could use English as memorizing tons of words under pressure.You should be thankful in some degree.I would never regret what I experienced in ShangDong province where basic education could be considered top3 in China.But when I removed to YunNan province,the education there is not up to my standards compared to ShangDong province.I found I lost too much,lol.

Elizabeth Shokoya hahaha yes it felt like it was me waiting for my results :P

True but it coincides with the purpose of the test. Everyone is restricted to the same class content and textbook work that way the test is fair and nobody has extra knowledge. Everyone gets taught the exact same thing with no extra learning and by doing so we can test who truly works hard to make sure they understand the content they all learned, the best.

probably dead

She didn't do very well in the final college entrance exam and she went to the 3rd-tier university

GCas87 u dumbass

@Rich 91Go to a 3rd university in China ≈ waste four years. just a little better than not go to a university.

@Rich 91 It’s true. China has a overlarge population, so education resources for a single student are very limited. Gov has to concentrate resources on good universities. This is why students in the video study so hard. There are big differences between first-tier universities and other universities. Gov won't close 3rd-tier universities because China is communism, which means everyone has the right to study in universities.

When you have money the sky’s the limit. These people live in poverty

LMAO!

🤣 This made my day tho

😆

I understand more the people more the pressure

Why not make more schools? China has the money. I think if their grades are ok they should get a chance to prove themselves in college even if the schools have less prestige. Definitely better for an economy too to have more educated people. One test cannot fully determine one’s academic greatness. I think this may contribute to why china has so many students overseas too

@@Foimay more schools doesn’t solve the problem of more prestigious schools that are seen as worthy to employers

Lol good observation 😂

@@RK-zf4jw thanks

Lorenzo Luiz De Souza In a highly stratified society like in China or most developing country hustle can only get you so far. Talking about being hustle, Chinese is the most hustle people on earth. Chinese immigrant in every country overwhelmingly went from rag to rich in one generation. But what we have a chance to watch here is the society that is so full of hustle - that you cannot distinguish yourself just by being one.

No. Its about getting good marks. Because getting good marks ensure a good college but the colleges require creativity etc. So many who get good marks in entrance exams fail in life. Evryone's main aim is to get in good university because its a belief that a good university ensures good future. But that's not true.

If you want to become an billionaire you don't need any degree or marks just you need to be creative what you do

Actually there some limits... There only two ways a human mind can concentrate at best is When there is very little white sounds or a lot of noises . When there a lot going on around you , your mind can distinguish you from concentrating on noises by making it a habit or ignoring everything around you.. 😅

That's why Study in quite area or in area where there too much going on that your mind can't concentrate on these sorroundings.

Nah, not by far as difficult as gaokao. Not even ITA's entrance exam is as difficult as gaokao, let alone ENEM.

the problem is, China is a developing country, the best resources and opportunities give to the winners who attend to good colleges , so this is the life changing point for people are bet on this exam. When everyone else is working hard but you are not, sorry then you will be the one who are out of the game. Of course you will still have a good life without going to college, but for them in China, this is the only chance for them to jump out of their class, especially for the poorer areas since they do not get much opportunities to change their lives.

It has considered the good jobs in the future. Different to Western schools, Chinese highschool are separated into two branch, literature or stem(science technology engineer math). It's the student's choice to enter which branch around 11th grade, yet you're welcome to switch during the year. These branches are different because they focused more on different subjects, to suit the student's needs. If you want to be a writer, for example, you might consider literacy branch because math is less tense. This is part why I don't agree with you completely. Highschool subjects vary, and some of them can be very hard. some teenagers don't know what's going to happen in there future, they might not have plans for jobs , so a better coverage on different knowledge can prepare them better.

In most asian countries they see your CGPA or grades and university name even before they shortlist you for the job. Millennials might change that culture in the future, but for now we are stuck in this mess.

or everey body is better than just grades,worker,money,miserable life,being victim or abuser mentality

I am a Chinese person born in the U.S. and grew up Americanish. My mom used to help me study math at home. Gosh, the number of times she called me stupid or a good for nothing all because I was taking a longer time to grasp basic addition and subtraction. Her biting comments only drew me further away from her and hurt my feelings even more. She probably thought she was helping me by being so harsh but it made me trust her less. She also hit me once for not doing my homework. I was only hit once but that one time was so traumatic for me that it makes me very uncomfortable to think there are parents out there who think they are doing the right thing by physically punishing their children.

You say this, but at least they have an equal chance of getting into the best universities- whereas in the West only the rich kids who can afford tutors and SAT classes go to the Ivies. Say what you want, but I‘d take China’s system any day.

there are millions like her.

Jessica Inga No one is happy

It’s their chance for their children to attend those universities for better jobs. It’s only in those rural countries that have it harder

Try living in the rural countryside where jobs are hard labor and menial livings. This is their chance for next generation to move up to at least middle class.

happy can not make money，it is truth。as a chinese，you must get through these days and succeed，then you may have a good life and help your family

but its expensive fore them...

"if youre homeless just buy a house lol"

They're entire life. If they don't get into a good college, they won't get a good job. Either you go through the pain now and live a life that's rewarding and fulfilling or you remain at the bottom. It's a sad truth for these people.

Jhania Smith what does it matter if you’re dead though. You can’t just keep berating and berating children without giving them some sort of compassion. That’s when they kill themselves

yeapp

UnkemptChannel WOW 😲 that Is so cool

Like Peking or Tsinghua

Yes, Peking and Tsinghua are the #1 elite university’s of China. Many international students also attends

sometimes i think every Chinese teacher is same，my all teacher like this teacher

That was the whole reason for the one child policy. Higher institutions did not have the space for full stream of high school graduates. They had to use a brutal merit system to select the top students. The rapid expansion of university space have changed the ratio and one child policy no longer needed.

@@5441lance you are wrong. It's not that higher institutions don't have space. Everyone of them are targeting first or second tier universities. Nobody wants to go third tier universities. Now not everyone is smart. Those who are not smart also tries for first and second tier universities and they get heart broken when they can't get those elite universities.

My thoughts exactly

Tau Playz Yes, but they might be on the track for suicide high rates. Korea and Japan might be more advanced but they remain highly conservative and individualistic. Old Koreans were the ones who lifted South Korea and most are now homeless, hungry, and suicide rates for thr elders and teenagers is rising. Koreans are coming to the US because they are fed up with Korea's egocentric society of looking down at people because of the car they drive, grades, job, university, social status, etc. I'd say East Asians are becoming organic robots and less human. Not all people are going to have extremely good grades, families shouldn't look at them as a disgrace to their family. If you are not good at memorizing mathematical skills then people can always be elementary teachers, nurses, high tech farmers, etc.

China wins a lot of Olympic medals

Not all chinese high schools are like this one in Anhui dude...this school is one of the hardest toughest schools in all of China. This is an exam that they take to see if students get into good schools. Especially in rural countries, this is their chance for those who don’t have a lot of money

@@xenoidaltu601 but what can you do about it? it's a whole society in every country that has such a culture. it's not even just Korea and China, where i'm from in Singapore, we have some of the best grades in international tests etc while the kids suffer. suicide rates among the young are also rising. once i read in the news that a boy came home from school and jumped to his death. that made an imprint on me. it's on the society to change such mindsets in the parents and students, but a lot importance is placed in 高考 bc in such rural, poor areas, it's regarded as the only way out of poverty, their only way to bring pride to the family.

I sleep at 2 am and wake up at 5-6 am as a Canadian born and raised student LOL.

Man not only to some extent parents in India don't even care about the Child's dreams they just Impose their will on the child irrespective of what the child actually want and now a days in the school final board exams the students are under a heavy pressure. Just to make their parents happy.

but this kind of test is fair.

U can give up any moment and tell your parents to rest

ms yu Is it? Everytime a person goes up in the ranks another is forced down. Only a certain amount can be at the top and they are all that matter no matter how hard others work.

Lotus Soul that's how competitions work

@@mirakabana7987 The sad reality is not everybody can be winners but you are right that everyone can get a fantastic score but if you're in a very competitive year its your loss and you can't do anything about it :/

DarkMinion it’s Anhui Dialect, every part of China has a dialect

The Gan dialect (赣语) spoken in southern Anhui (安徽) is the most similar to Hakka (客家). However this dialect sounds too Mandarin-like hence it might merely be a Mandarin dialect spoken in other parts of the province. Hakka is mutually unintelligible with Mandarin.

@@xwah5016 ik it's been two years. But do you know at around what age do these students take this exam?

18 ​@@pravinjay1675

bathsheba chopra This was a documentary that was allowed to show what life was really like for Chinese students about to take the College Entrance Exam. But I agree, it was a bit weird!

No in 2014

hierarchy exist everywhere in the world. Don't let anyone fool you into believing equality and justice. God is a sadistic bastard.

That’s ur opinion

Like one of the parents or teachers said in the documentary, you have to suffer now and go through all your hard work now so that you don't have to stress later in life. Work hard today, live life tomorrow.