Can I just say here I have really enjoyed reading this thread. It has made me laugh so much. I think the biggest problem here is the word 'Education'. Foreigners come here for a few reasons, 1, They want to help a country who feels a need to develop it's skills in dealing with the rest of the world. 2, they are young people who just finished uni and want to travel a while before going home and getting "a proper job". they are the targets for the recruiters who can manipulate them for their own ends. Recruiters charge the schools to find a foreign teacher for them and they , the schools, have no idea of the different culture these young people are from. sometimes they just leave after a few weeks as they can't deal with the problems and no one is ther to help them, certainly not the recruiter, who got his/her fee and is is "off like a bag of prawns in a heat wave". the young foreign teachers need to be "Educated" before they even try to think of coming to China to teach, to learn to avoid the bogus and crooked recruiters, who come and go like the very rice they should be out cultivating, but there's money to be made from the unwary. they have an expression here in the south of CHina it is "sui yue" it means water fish literally, but really means easily cheated... there are a lot of sui yue out there...