2.3 Deficiencies in college education
One abuse of the higher education in China is to emphasize the theory but ignore the practice. The course setting has not
emphasized the actual demand of the society and college students, but too much theoretical courses, without practical
courses. In teachers’ teaching, they also only pay attention to the teaching of theoretical knowledge, but ignore the
practices, so many students have low cognition to their learned knowledge. One survey showed that only 5.52% of
college students thought that knowledge was useful, but 50.68% of them thought that knowledge was useless (Huang,
2007, P.54). Students thought that the learned knowledge has not practical value, which makes them to exclude the
courses and knowledge what they learned to some extent, and have low identification to their specialty. Teachers’
teaching level also impacts students’ learning, and with the enrollment expansion of colleges, the amount of teacher
expands quickly, but the total quality of teacher has not been enhanced accordingly, and many students don’t satisfy
teachers’ occupational morality, individual culture, teaching method, and teaching level, which also make them to
produce the learning burnout to some extent.