The National Conference on Education, the third of its kind since China began its reform and opening policies in the late 1970s, was hosted in Beijing in June by the central government and the State Council. It endorsed a blueprint for promoting quality-oriented education that highlights the cultivation of independent thinking, creative spirit and the practical ability of the nation. The past few years saw healthy advancement and forceful reforms in china's education sector. Significant headway has been made especially in the implementation of nine-year compulsory education, the elimination of illiteracy and the enhancement of higher education and vocational training. However, much is still to be desired. The traditional examination-driven education system has bridled young people's thinking and has made them mere passive learners with little practical abilities and innovative spirits. In other aspect, from some report, a domestic famous publish house published a best-seller named How to Have the Creative Spirits. It is doubtful that if creative spirits can be taught.

We improve our education quality to enhance our people's competitiveness in the world. As we known,

We are students and all regard taking note as a hard job. In a class, some incapable teachers are keeping reading or writing on the blackboard without any sympathy to our tied hands. It is a kind of dismal dictation. In statistic of the universities in china, 63% of students do not take note, more academic students than science. About 63% of students copy the notes before exams. Some exclaim there are giant columns of notes to recite. Not try your best but should follow your professors' every original words if want to get high score. We always learn a lot of things, but occasionally use our head independently. It is fortune that our professors give us the first-hand thinking. It is unfortunate that our professors' words are second-hand. Taking-note is part of examination-driven education and should draw the attention of the teachers. Give space to students is the right way leading to cultivation of creative spirits.

Up to now, our educational system has shown a tendency to push students to raise their personal scores, but not to develop their potential abilities or to share their knowledge and experience with other students. But as an individual one can accomplish few things in producing new knowledge and information in this changing world. It is impossible for an individual to acquire, analyze, and arrange the large amounts of information produced by innumerable studies and research all over the world. Besides many new ideas result from a synergy effect that combines the know-how and experiences from several disparate fields. Now we need to nurture the attitudes and orientation to solve our problems by cooperation as well as by competition.

The promotion of higher mental abilities such as creativity and problem-solving power is not new. It has been counted as a main objective of education for a long time. But the future is different from the past in terms of the environment for problem solving. We have to

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