Lessons for Life

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Chinese students may have been bringing home stellar results in PISA， an international comparative survey measuring teenagers’ scholastic aptitude in mathematics， science， and reading; but many of them emerge out of the country’s education system ill-equipped to explore other important aspects of life： such as beauty， sex， and death.

Incidents of youth suicide and sexual harassment or abuse are concerning students and parents alike， making them reexamine the need to talk about these topics. Meanwhile， baffling stylistic choices in public infrastructures arouse debates on whether the country is suffering from a pandemic of aesthetic blindness.

Around the country， from NGOs to individual educators， efforts to offer these lessons of life are growing at the grassroots. But multiple challenges await for practitioners who try to incorporate these subjects， still largely viewed by society as either taboo or unproductive， into the education system.

中國学生长于应试，但他们并不仅仅只需要学科教育。（剩余60字）