Student life ‘too free’
New Zealand student life is too free, according to a visiting Chinese fellow in computer science at Auckland University, Mr Cao Liming. Mr Cao, from the China Institute for Coalmining in Jiangsu province, near Shanghai, said yesterday he felt New Zealand students could not balance freedom and study. “In New Zealand the time is not enough to think,” he said. In China, even after the Cultural Revolution, all university students must live in dormitories on campus, even if their parents live in
the same city. They have classes six days a week for nine months of the year and are allowed to leave campus only on Sundays. “In our country we do not encourage students to fall in love,” said Mr Cao. “We hope they will concentrate on their study. “Every month or two weeks we have a small quiz, and if the teacher finds their study going down he will find out the reason. In fact, some students do fall in love with each other. But if the teacher finds out, he will persuade them not to go out together.”
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Press, 19 April 1984, Page 8
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