I assume you managed quite well by plugging in electric fires because you didn't say that your flat was cold;

People don't "manage quite well" if they feel that they have to talk about this in a public forum. [edited]

Broken windows or not, central heating or not, middle schools and universities are more often than not cold, because the students themselves like to very annoyingly open the windows- not much you can do about that one.

You can always ask them to close it or close them yourself. I like to open windows too, but I only open enough to let a slit of air through and there should always be central heating in a classroom, no exceptions. For a university to not have this shows that the money that is being given to them by the government is being spent on too much expensive watches, purses, and baijiu.

Your headmaster sounds very wise; although, you going around bare-footed in winter must have exasperated him.

The poster who started this thread never said she went around bare footed. The way she said it could also have been taken as an improvised excuse that the headmaster thought up himself to not see his own faulty reasoning. You don't see this, because you share the same faulty reasoning.

Yes, and he's right about the many layers of clothing needed too.

Yes, yes, yes the headmaster is always right. Now if anyone with anything to complain about in a wonderful country like china just shut up and not post in the first place, impeccable pillars of society like you wouldn't have to come here and put them in their place, isn't that right? [edited]