My first college semester at Taizhou Teachers College is coming to an end, and its 7,000 students once again confront more sets of examinations, testing their study-skills and learning habits. These consist mostly of never-ending memorization, encouraged by almost all of their teachers, the amount of which has left me amazed and astonished. The volumes of printed materials in each of their courses, which are comitted to memory by every one of my Chinese students, who are also English majors, is something few Western educators, parents, or my former students at Coral Gables Sr. High School would believe, if they could not witness it for themselves. For that reason, the daily hours of strictly organized and carefully supervised group-studies taking place at our Teachers College, and every other college in China, (7 days a week), would
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