Today I bought the China Daily, the articles on the cover seemed a bit more interesting than usual. As often happens, each number has an air of "footprint fund." Well then, you know that the prescribed pieces such as the famous "Crocodile" (pieces written prematurely on a person's life ahead of departure) are easier to fix in advance. Comments of the People's Republic aside, those often deal with this issue of environment and innovation (and the link between the two), both important parts of the new five-year plan recently approved. An article was especially tasty: "Tolerance as a basis for innovation." The writer tried to straddle the difficult task of writing is not "freedom". Some points are particularly interesting, however, impossible not to comment on:

1) The purpose of a student life is to arrive at the university. Period. Come here if you go out in certain times, you get in here to take a national exam that produces various graduatori for a population of students that is approximately 33 million people, who know their fate: to work, universities, some of the BEST universities.

2) The whole path is based on student test, so much so that Chinese students are often blinded by the "I was in the top 10 ranking of the best student vattelapesca", "I got 101 and then I went to a non- in a good university, "" he goes to Peking University (the best), so it's a genius. " While we often who does not fit somewhere else is good at (yes, sometimes a "right bon is not from nothing", but I think everyone has the skills, the famous talents is not it?) Everything is reduced a single number, who is there who is not hello.

3) What does the test measure? Intelligence? Hmmm, a little bit. Certainly the extent sciolism. A massacre of questions on many different topics, or you know or do not know and vai and stay at the stake. Obviously whoever is capable of learning a volume of information that shows great memory skills, method, willpower, commitment extreme. What certainly does not show is whether or not the student understands and knows how to dance with each other and use the information you have studied or not. Often the end result is a gigantic work mnemonic, rather than logic. And of course this is not conducive to creativity.

4) Nursery: follow the rules or tiles on his head; kindergarten: 300 studied your character and follow the rules, if you do not know ugly and bad, high school: if you do not study all that you do not follow from studying and the rules do not adrai all'univeristà. Rules, rules, rules. I would add, military parades, freedom of expression difficult, often based in Confucian culture that rules of behavior. Sena trivialize, it is also based on the perpetuation of the teachings and expressions of the masters of the PAST (a sort of ipse dixit quropeo). How do you expect cretivi impulses? Really believe innovation can be managed centrally? The writer speaks of the Japanese, come on tecnolgia sprung from the minds of someone else "but maybe in the last 50 years have invented the Walkman, yes and no."

5) And then? And then next to the large number of administrative measures tightrope ends with the "tolerance" (TOLLERANZA!): place, however it must remain a low percentage (as if you could control that 4% of the population and not be out one more head), invites readers to tolerate children who sometimes do not follow the rules, that sometimes things do not all do, and leave them in their world, maybe invent something. Yes, for charity, and good intention, one can not but laugh thinking about this poor souls left in a corner and the teachers' yeah, he's a 4% ..). I can only imagine what the writer has produced in the mind the thought that the children, now adults, were following that for which they were "programmed" to invent, especially high teconolgia. And if they became artists? And if they became like normal people ... and if they had the brilliant proposals as a "vote"?

6) And 'true according to the writer the link between society and society indivadualistica creative? No, in fact, China "in the last 3000 years has produced inventions on average 1224 years before the West." True or not, many things have invented their own, and no matter if they used them gunpowder for fireworks. Sure, you could instead tie the gradual end of the inventions of centuries later with the gradual closure of the country outside, around since 1500.

I conclude, beyond the contents of the article, which perolmeno anyone here thinks of the great themes of the international challenge, that these are not just words, we really feel. That when you see a sticker with a copied Ferrari (the car is red for sure: China is all red, brings good) but has a wheel wrong, you know, once again, that they run. And we are still begging for a cut IRAP, an incentive to virtuous, a tax abatement of Research and Development. Mah