we start the contrast some draw between a western emphasis on discovery learning to encourage creativity and the traditional chinese preference for a more guided approach to developing skills.
In our day and age it is not unusual to act as if owning all that is the very latest and most expensive is a sure way to happiness.Yet there are those who prefer instead different values.
A vicious circle may set in,with those unable to cope with the real world retreating further and further away into the virtual one beyond the computer screen.
Yet our opening text argues that it is one of the strengths of English that it has mixed together new words from many different sources in the course of its long history without too much about preserving the purity of the language.