Not a Nation Loves to Read?

by Jing Liu ~ June 14th, 2012. Filed under: What others are saying.

程师兄又在批判啦，这回是针对不爱读书的中华民族！：“相对世界其他民族而言，中华民族可能是世界上最不喜欢读书的民族之一。如果不是隋朝以后延续一千多年的科举考试和如今的高考和就业与职务晋升的要求，这种学而优则仕的利诱，中国恐怕没有多少人乐意去读书，更遑论终生学习”。

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3 Responses to Not a Nation Loves to Read?

  1.   Jing
    June 15th, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    I sort of agree the difference does exit. Once reading becomes a hobby, people turn to read alot and read often. One question I received from Chinese audience was if the public library is doing that well in Richmond, how can the bookstores survive? Chapters and Chinese bookstores in Richmond have their loyal customers, still.

  2.   Yanli
    June 26th, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    I’m impressed to see what an important role a public library is playing in Canada in terms of nurturing an environment for reading. In schools here, new books are available to the kids. They are encouraged to do homereading, write reading log and join the prize draw. Yesterday my son came home with excitement for he won a great prize- encyclopedia after having read 25 nights consecutively. In comparison, the kids in China can’t have access to good books from the library. The poor families can’t afford to buy them. I think the problem is not that the Chinese don’t like reading, but there isn’t a good environment in China, where people should have been encourged to read.

  3.   Lingbo
    August 14th, 2012 at 9:27 am

    I think that the public library in the west is more for the “general public” than for the rich elite. The rich can afford to buy books, DVDs, eReaders, they can afford to travel and see the world; the average public travel the world by reading. The rich or the moderately well-off people go to the movies; the poor watch DVDs borrowed from the public libraries.

    I guess the same is true for the public transit – it is mainly for the “general public”.

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