英语演讲稿Education

Be imaginative, be educated ----Why do we need to reform the Chinese education? Good afternoon，distinguished judges，dear teachers. It’s my great honor to stand here and deliver a speech. My topic is: be imaginative, be educated. Before my speech I’d like to ask you a question： What impressed you most in the vedio? For me I was amazed by Huizi’s smartness who made use of the gourd, which is too big to be useful. No wonder he is a sage because he used imagination with knowledge to solve a problem. I remember when I was a child, I was a very shy girl. I never showed my paintings to the teachers after I saw the best one in class. One day a teacher said one sentence which completely changed my life. I can even remember every words of it. She said :”Don’t be afraid to be different. You don’t have to be in it. ” It’s true and that’s the very point I am stressing now,: we need to reform the Chinese education. Einstein once said :”Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited, but imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. ” However, traditional Chinese education kills our aptitude to think boldly. How? Drilling children on how to take tests, punishing divergent thinking, and prioritizing skills over knowledge and the endless hours devoted to test preparation certainly deaden students’ interest in school. In Barack Obama’s recent State of the Union address, he highly asserted that Americans must encourage innovation, imagination, and creativity so that we can “win the future, American Dream”. However