Chidings From Changping

China's Educational Backwater
Another teaching gig at another Chinese university. This time with "some of the laziest, dumbest students who ever wasted oxygen in a classroom," and under unprecedented conditions of surveillance.
"Sometimes I grind to a halt, stunned by the sheer stupidity of my students, by their inability even to answer the simplest question, though expressed in every variant known to man, and broken into the most elementary forms of language, or to recall what I had shared w...