British schoolchildren are “rude, bone-idle and cossetted by the welfare state“. So say a group of Chinese teachers who, as part of a BBC TV experiment (Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School – first episode on tonight), spent four weeks in a Hampshire state school trying to see whether their traditional oriental teaching methods would cut any ice with the feckless yoof of Nu Britain. Needless to say, they didn’t. And I think – as Rod Liddle has also noted – that the response of the school’s headmaster offers a big clue as to why they didn’t. “If you go into a class and do not treat the students with respect then you are going to get problems,” said the comprehensive school’s head teacher, Neil Strowger, adding that he considered the techniques used by the Chinese teachers to be “mind-numbingly boring.” Problem number one: referring to school kids as
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