In the newspaper, there have been a stunning achievement for Shanghai, China. In an international contest for all countries in three areas, the city topped in all. These three areas are science, math and reading ,their mother tongue. Countries like the united States, England and Singapore participated in this test. The principal of HCI was interested in the reason as to why Singapore could not score higher than Shanghai in any of the areas and thus wishes to know how the method of education is different from Singapore, learning from a school in Shanghai.The current secondary school principal of that school in Shanghai is Zhangren Li, and the method of teaching he uses is called '后茶馆教学方法'. This teaching method is inherited from his teacher, 段力佩. He was a famous educator, and the method was invented by him.

Just like what a tea shop hints, this method is mainly the students doing the discussion and talking instead of the traditional teacher way. The method consists of 4 components, reading, discussing, practicing and talking. Reading, is reading of textbooks, on what will be thought that day. Whereas discussing, is a group discussion. While the students reads the textbook, the teacher will write down, on the white board what to take note off in the text. Then, after the reading is over, questions will be asked by both the teacher and students and groups of, normally 4, will be assigned to discuss about the questions and come out of answers with their knowledge and from the textbook. Then, each group would answer each other's questions, with the help of the teacher. Only then would a lesson end.

What i would like to ask it is, why is it, Singapore a more developed country as compared to China, cannot score higher than Shanghai in any of the three areas? Shouldn't Singapore be worried?