Chapter 12: An opportunity for growth
Early autumn had already brought a chill. The stars and moon shone bright, and the sky was still deep blue. The morning star had yet to brighten.
It was five forty in the morning. Under his bedroom light, Su Can, who had been up for ten minutes, opened his Chinese textbook to page 62, where his "review" had reached. The entire first volume of high school Chinese was only 162 pages long. For someone who had been reborn, "preview" really could not describe his study of knowledge he had learned before.
Having recovered and consolidated his middle school foundations, Su Can now worked through the vast body of high school knowledge step by step, absorbing it like a sponge. The most important part of high school Chinese was mastering the foundations of the entire national language system. Under the current education system, however, Chinese language and literature had become a highly goal-oriented subject. In Su Can's recollection, many students drilled endless questions and crammed intensively. After a series of grueling exercises, their scores could indeed improve, but those were merely scores. Mastering the use of Chinese language and classical learning demanded by the examination system remained a difficult hurdle.
This was because education was currently too instrumental and goal-oriented, and because many people failed to recognize the subject's importance. Chinese was called the study of national culture precisely because it embodied a people's cultural values and worldview, symbolizing the spiritual civilization of the entire nation. Without that attitude and perspective, studying it would inevitably become dry and tedious.
For Su Can, who had already built a foundation writing countless reports in his later life, reviewing Chinese grammar now was almost like a fish returning to water. But the internet had not yet become widespread