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Knowledge is power as West wanes
Every September parents travel with their children to help them enroll(注册)at universities across the country.This does not make 1 in China.
But recently, a photo 2 at a university in Wuhan caught the 3 of Jeremy Warner, a commentator(评论员)with the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
The photo was of parents 4 down for the night in the campus gym made 5 to those who could not afford a hotel room.
Chinese commentators and educators have pointed out that 6 kids to college does not help them adjust to campus 7 .But Warner read a totally different message from the photo.
He said that in the UK or other 8 economies, parents usually don't bother to accompany their children to university.
To Warner, this was“a 9 sign of growing gulf in ambition that separates the aspiring(有抱负的)developing world 10 the tired, old, advanced economies.”
He said the future looks bright for the developing world.In 11 , and most other developing countries, going to university offers a route to a 12 future.
But in the West,“people have lost their 13 in self-improvement and seem already resigned to a future of gentle or even catastrophic decline,”Warner wrote.
He went on to analyze China's 14 strategy:The number of college graduates is increasing at a higher speed. 15 , the focus of education is strongly on the sciences.
For Warner the 16 “is both an inspiration and a cause for alarm, for it vividly 17 how the West's”monopoly(垄断)“on knowledge-the biggest source of its relative wealth-is likely to be 18 destroyed over the next decade.”
In his 19 , Warner suggested that the British government has much to learn about education from the 20 world.