| Zhou Weili first heard about the "wolf dad" - a father who used a stick to beat three of his children into China's top Peking University - from the Internet, and the news made this vice president of Guangdong Education Press a rather queasy. |
周伟励第一次听说“狼爸”是通过网络上的新闻，也正是看到这条“把三个孩子打进北大”的新闻让任广东教育出版社副社长的他内心感到一丝不舒服。 |
| Zhou had introduced ideas of quality education to China's book publishing industry over a decade ago, and he could hardly sit still seeing "wolf dad" books flying off shelves. It is difficult for him to understand why the abandoned "parenting with a stick" is returning to the public's eye with a vengeance. |
十多年前，他第一次将“素质教育”这个概念引进了中国的图书出版界。看见“狼爸”热卖，这个老出版人有点坐不住了。令他不能理解的是：为什么已遭摈弃的棍棒教育又重新高调地进入了公众视野？ |
| "I'm not saying that parents should never discipline their kids, but I just cannot accept entire sets of educational principles built around beating them with sticks," Zhou Weili said as he punctuated every word for emphasis. |
“不是说绝对不能打孩子，但‘狼爸’的理念，我不能接受。”周伟励用近乎倔强的语气一字一句地说。 |
| Chen Hong, the director of the textbook division of Guangzhou Book Center, took the position in 1999. That year, she witnessed fevered scenes of parents rushing to buy reference books for their children before the start of the new semester and the end-of-semester exams. |
陈虹现任广州购书中心教育书籍分管主任，1999年入职。那一年，她亲眼见证了开学前夕学生家长抢购教辅书籍的“火爆”场面。 |
| But as entire floors of exam reference books emptied out, the five or six shelves reserved for quality education books were left untouched. |
整层整层的教辅书籍一扫而空，只有五六面书架留给素质教育类的书籍，却无人问津。 |
| "There were only 100 books or so on quality education," Chen said. "Even that little stock could hardly be sold out." |
“不过百来本，能卖出去就算不错了。”陈虹这样描述。 |
| In the early 1990s, however, some people had begun to realize shortcomings of examination-oriented education. Some Chinese experts and scholars began to promote quality in education. But they did not get much support from the public. |
其实，早在90年代初，人们已经意识到了应试教育的弊端。国内开始有专家学者提倡素质教育，但社会普遍认同度仍不高。 |
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