Your whole experience in China and how you arrived here certainly highlights the problems of the Chinese education system. But really, these are beyond you or I. The Chinese themselves have to change what they want, but hopefully the foreign ESL teachers will stop racing the Chinese to the bottom. I myself have learned some things about how the "system" works. At one point of my stay here I even had a Chinese name which now I stopped using. I was like a Mandarin, being more Chinese than the Chinese. I will be flexible with the Chinese, but I will not try to become one of them; I can't anyway. A loa-wai is a loa-wai is a loa-wai. Good luck Smartie, happy studies.