At Aihua English, Beijing, we teach children between the ages of 3 and 12. Our programs run after school hours: late afternoons and early evenings on weekdays, and weekends. As members of the private education sector, we need to identify the weaknesses and shortcomings of public education, and create a product that supplements for these. Throughout the world public school systems have problems. China’s educational system faces particular challenges, due to the numbers of students, and due, in a sense, to a very entrenched examination culture. At Aihua, we don’t see education as the filling of a bucket, but instead as the lighting of a fire.
