The sight of students in a Chinese school hooked up to intravenous drips in order to better study on through the night has lately been drawing much attention to the remarkable quality of Chinese education.
Parents are said to approve of the practice, being willing to pay any price in order to secure better grades.
The local government reportedly already subsidises the amino acids drips to in a bid to boost performance at national college entrance exams, but the time lost moving students to the infirmary to administer them prompted this school to move the drips to the classroom.
In the best tradition of both China and obscure supplements, there appears to be little scientific evidence that the practice actually boosts performance, and also little guarantee over what exactly is put in the feeds.
On one hand, it is a smart idea. Many people forget to eat / drink when they are in one area with intense focus.
Can only say that as the Chinese people is a sad thing, our physical creativity is limited! But in fact some mental creativity is on the! Many of us think, this is worth to rejoice!
Study Level: Asian.
What if the drips blow up?
:keanureeves:
So normal, humanly break and rest simply won’t do in china? I wonder how far they can go with this. Sleep is probably our most important survival tool, where we rest our brain and restructure memory, repair damaged cells etc and they pretty much mess around with it. And the students should know better.
China has the most exams in the world ~…
Reader in sankaku only know chinese as a very terrible person while some are true, rest are not but…i know it`s artefact job as a journalism to write a facts even if it means to humiliate someone or something
Sooner or later it will be revealed that female students received an aphodesiac in their drips, or that all the students that got drips became drug addicts.
Wouldn’t having a big needle stuck in you be really distracting/painful if you were trying to study?
and later that week 30 students exploded
lol china
Why IV?
Can’t they spare five minutes to grab a drink and put their eyes to rest?
Ultra stupid.
Giga stupid.
Damn, the author of this site sure is anti-Chinese. Guess he’s trying to live up to JP standards? But I digress, I don’t see a problem with it. Try hooking yourself up to an IV drip after a long night of drinking. Guaranteed to make quick work of your hangover.
the whole site caters to weeaboos, you’re just realizing this now?!
Do they even change the needles after use!?
what’s the point in these drips? study and then what? not use what you study for and copy already made products. might as well put protein drips there since they’re gonna do manual labor instead of creative thinking
So… school doping is allowed… can they keep the drip during test? I suspect some of them will became addicts…
Holy shit, I though this was some kind of experiment design to see if they can do the same at foxcomm. This shit does not work but if they do the same with Retalin I think they would have a winner.
Maybe Chinese youth would know how to create original ideas and businesses on their own if they weren’t forced to study useless textbook crap until they pass out.
Nah it’s chinese, so the iv must be fake
I’m willing to bet that it’s just water in there.
Same. It just screams government approved scam.
Students around the world use drugs and booze, how is this worse? At least they are determined with their study, let’s give them an aplause clap, clap, clap,…
Because we all know that modern Chinese medicine is top notch. No wonder it has been predicted that the zombie pandemic will start there. – Read World War Z by Max Brooks
Ok, I kinda wish they had this when i was in school. Maybe i would have had better studying power.
Took me a minute to understand what this article was about.
What the hell china?
that’s messed up
lotta chinese gotta die of water poisoning. guaranteed.
Being afraid of needles I wouldn’t let anyone stick a one in me, period. I’d just stick to studying with an IV, thanks.
Good point, how they’re all just one step closer to ‘riding the train’.
This is something I would have expected to happen in Japan first.
Chinese schooling = Hardcore.
Japanese schooling = Softcore.
Well, 4% of american college students use amphetamines or such.
Sounds like government sanctioned experimentation to me!
I wouldn’t dare to accept chinese IV-drips even if it actually contained something useful.
Everyone knows how sharp Sherlock Holmes is. Maybe they should give them cocaine instead. How ’bout it, China?
My only reason to believe why china is lasting this long as a country and hasn’t self-destructed yet is because the government has tons of freaking money that they are getting from other countries and in not so honest ways either.
This makes me sick!
Here take an iv <('.'<)
do they use students’ body electricity to power the school ?
Not a bad idea if it actually worked.
This is amazingly unhealthy.
I wonder how many will get blood clots from not getting up to take a break or end up getting a nasty infection from having IVs inserted repeatedly under unsanitary conditions?
You can get the same exact benefits by getting a drink and FYI academic performance is much higher if you do take breaks from studying.
I’m loving this “china style” series, I swear someone’s gotta put this into a complete book or something 😛
I think it would sell like hot cakes in japan.
It’d sell great in the U.S. as well.
College drip-outs…
That’s mutagens. They are creating super-soldiers. Or, rather, super-students. To begin with. One has to ease it out.
Too bad they’ll only work as kamikaze soldiers, considering their impending exploding doom.
If you still fail the entrance exam, you’re considered a ‘college drip-out’.
Which in turn is regarded a very retarded pun.
no crowbar, you’re just an idiot with nothing better to add
But that doesn’t mean that someone is listening.
college drip out! never thought of that
One could say that he is a big tool.
Well… He is a Crowbar.
no no I think I speak for everyone when I say puns are lame
Isn’t this how zombies will be created?
I didn’t realize you had to study that hard to steal/copy other nation’s technology.
They try to study harder, so they don’t have to steal anymore. Sadly they don’t realize that studying is bullshit and kills creativity which is needed for the inventions they just copy.
nonono, they study harder to find legal loopholes with allow them to steal and not be penalized.
That isn’t just a problem in China, it’s a problem around the entire world. I regularly pop in and out of indie game development teams, almost every last one is “ok I want that from Game A, this from Game B, and if we have time you can pursue your own idea”. Except we never have time to pursue our own ideas because we’re too busy making our own versions of other ideas. It’s not much different in the professional world, except in that world if you do manage to sneak in your own stuff you get fired instead of a slap on the wrist.
Before anyone bashes China for copying. Just take a few moments to look at the products your own country creates. At least Chinese products are brazen enough to put a “compared to Brand X” on the label so you know it’s a blatant ripoff.
@09:42
Aw, man, don’t take it so seriously. We (at least I hope most of us) know that there can be a innovative chinese. But the system you have right now fucks everything up, like you yourfelf see. As a polish guy I can tell you that life in Poland, when we were under the “care” of comunist Rusia was as absurd as that. To stay mentally healthy you have to laugh it off. They are quite a few polish comedies from that time, that show the insanity people had to go through, like: Miś, Co mi zrobisz jak mnie złapiesz, Nie lubię poniedziałków, Seksmija, Alternatywy 4. I’m afraid there won’t be any chinese subs, but maybe at least english ones. I highly recomend them if you get a chance.
I know you are being sarcasm and I respect that. However, as an Engineer who are a Chinese and escaped from that shit hole becuase I was not allowed to design what I wanted and the boss just want me to make something “looks like” some popular products. I moved out and back to where I was born, got a job and work for the Army. Anyway, not all or most Chinese want to make crappy low cost duplicates but as long as you are a small time employee and you got a family to feed, what can you do? Some of my Chinese friends study real hard, they make real innovative things (open source) at home but their work forbid them to use their creativity. They are smart and creative people but its not the people who arnt creative, is those who are in the management level dont love creativity. I got mad every time people say Chinese (or imply All Chinese) just know how to copy stuff. I cannot argue that because it is what it looks like but I know its not the truth. I am gonna do something about it but as a single person, I wonder how much impact I can make…. well Id better stfu and back to do programs… probably fap a few Doujinshi before I sleep.
That’s kind of incorrect, Chen. I mean seriously, school studying does tend to stifle creativity, but in general it does offer some perspective on the world people wouldn’t usually get. They wouldn’t be ABLE to come up with new stuff if they didn’t understand the science behind it and get introduced to things they didn’t otherwise know existed, so while I do agree with your basic idea, I also disagree. But then again, this is the Chinese version of science and world history, so perspective may be a misnomer here…
@HouseLife
You are right, studying was the wrong word. Replace it with memorizing.
They bought magnetic levitation transport system from Germans with the reason that they were not able to copy/steal it, they want that to never happen again.
Well it’s hard for them
sucks to be a chinese
Obese white man detected
u mad little yellow-man?
We’re not interested in Africa. Sorry, cannot help you there. But I’m sure there enough fetishists to permanently alter the oriental gene pool. :p
As a little yellow man I humbly request great white man to come back and civilise Asia. Very good job you did with Japan, most civilised now. Now please continue with rest of Asia. And Africa for that matter.
butthurt asian deluded into thinking copy/pasting ‘white person detected’ isn’t spitting while lying down detected~
And you’ve triggered my TRAP CARD. I summon Hastur-kun.
And nobody gives a shit, to many skills activated right now. 😀
White person claim skill activated
i wonder if gamers can get those drips too?
I wouldn’t be able to study in this kind of environment. Imagine all the painful moaning.
College is already a complete waste of time and money. Don’t ruin your health over it too.
Liberal arts major detected.
sadly, true
It’s only a waste of time and money if you waste your time and money. People who actually know how, but more importantly WHY they study know exactly how useful it can be. The world is full of failures because many people never take on a goal in their lives, so never apply the resources of college to that goal. They get drunk and try to ‘get it over with.’ Sadly a good chunk of the fault is with parents and schools who do not include it in their curriculum to teach children how to think and research for themselves. But that’s no excuse once you hit college.
Heh. I drink coffee in order to get some mental stimulus. So why not IV drops.
Looking at this makes me wonder whether or not this is the reason why Chinese people are starting to mentally deteriorate…
How long until one of the students explodes?
6 months assuming they have a 20% probability per month.
If that is for real, then this is quite a disturbing sight. Personally I get the impression like I’m viewing some experiment on children (something along the lines like “hey, we got lot of people in this country already, so trying this on several groups of children won’t hurt”). Honestly, it’s like I’m looking not people, but at cyborgs, the hard disks of which must be filled as soon as and by any means possible, so each of them would be able to carry out their function in some large machine or mechanism.
Still hoping it is joke though (while remembering the little Chinese who was girl rode over and nobody cared).
I wouldn’t trust anything sankaku posts without reference.I know that Chinese air quality is so bad that my Chinese friend returning to China after staying in UK for a few year required intravenous drip.
On the quality of education, I wouldn’t say it doesn’t work:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17585201
The funny thing is, everybody is forgetting that studying is bullshit. It’s not like anybody could just learn “knowledge”. Like how people think you learn languages by grammar. Utter Bullshit.
Or like how they focus on teaching what we’ve learned from science, rather than HOW to learn stuff with science. Which is rather like if your math teacher just gives you the answer to a complicated equation, instead of teaching you how to work that type of problem out yourself-it’s a practically pointless method of “education”.
welcome to modern life sonny boy. joke or not, THIS IS IT.
An important step towards exploding students. Go China, you can!
Doping kids for better grades.
Wow.
This is an ancient practice of the mongoloid warriors to conquer their destiny.
all is right in the world of capitalism!
capitalism ho!
yes, chinese parents like these and anyone like them have to wake up and face the facts…………….. not everyone in a country needs to have a degree. in fact, it is preferable that only few do or else who the hell is gonna work in starfucks and serve cofee?
Actually, in China, there is a huge difference in income between white collar workers and blue collar workers.
Your average Chinese laborer, say a someone working mass production in a factory somewhere, will earn <$0.75 an hour. Your average Chinese "white collar" will make at least twice that much.
So yeah, some Chinese parents are willing to do just about anything to get their kids a "good" college education, even if it does mean destroying their lives in the process.
They should give genetical engineering a try. Works like a charme if done right.
With GE you can make brilliant cripples. Anything you want. At least in theory.
What’s the point in making their bodies stronger?
Honestly, I would not be surprised to discover that China is already working on or creating genetically altered beings. Superior athletes, whom can pass a drug screening. Anything to take home Olympic gold.
Suspect the Government might be hesitant about that. Just recall Tiananmen Square, now factor in students who are stronger, faster, and hardier than the soldiers/police sent to suppress them.
As you’d only want to enhance your most loyal troops to the same degree, this due to the risks of a military coupe otherwise.
Would just further complicate matters.
have you ever been to the united states? doesn’t seem to matter whether people have degrees or not. higher education is just a way to do something inbetween your jobs at starbucks or whatever restaurant.
just wait til someone swaps the fluids for something flammable.
IV booze, yes!
I thought that it was some funny stuff like methamphetamine, not useless, boring stuff like amino acids.
Also, it won’t help, but it can make their veins inflamed. Way to go China!
Sitting so long that you need a drip also will cause deep vein thrombosis a potentially life threatening condition.
I wonder how many also are wearing depends to deal with that other distraction of having to get up to go to the bathroom?
There may not be scientific evidence for it as a concept, but there’s also not a lot of scientific evidence for many of the naturopathic treatments for cancer that I used and they work. So I’ve learned that just because there’s no evidence in a corrupt medical field doesn’t mean jack shit. In fact in our case, “…not approved by the Food and Drug Administration” these days is like a seal of approval.
In their case though, it’s much more of an issue of sanitation and… well… the reason they’re doing it. Amino acids aren’t some witchcraft, they do work when utilized properly, but there’s something to be said for the intention that diminishes their usefulness. Even if it is china’s backwards logic, even they wouldn’t subsidize it if it didn’t somehow prove itself to work in this context.
Healthier than energy drinks, that much is inarguable.
What is this ”bureku” you speak of?
Biologically speaking you can achieve the same results eating a stick of beef jerky and drinking an energy drink or if you want one step a protein shake.
It’s really simple after 3 or 4 hours studying get up take a break and eat a snack and go to the bathroom if needed.
As for loosing 15 to 30 minutes it’s not wasted it’s good idea to give your brain and eyes a break.
Nitroglycerin of course! How else would they create exploding students.
You may not know it but Nitroglycerin can actually be used to heal a sclerosis of a coronary artery xD
I bet that China’s government is experimenting on them for sure…
EXPLOSIONS IMMINENT!
Also, may i ask who that cosplayer is in your avatar?
Soon they will be sabotaging each other’s drips
Are the drip tubes even sanitized for that matter?
recycled from sewage
Nah, they’ll just snort some dried rhino penis – this will eliminate all infections.
lol’d hard
Will probably explode.
Will sink first, then explode.
The IVs are probably laced with lead.
hahah
Its still better than US education system .
Unless you’ve experienced that kind of highly competitive, pressure cooker school environment, you have no place to talk.
Thank you Captain Obvious!
It’s called hard work and determination, google it incase you fat white people never heard of it
>hard work and determination
says the over worked drone
Hard work and determination = memorizing the achievements of others and then taking meaningless standardized tests about it?
I like a lot of things from Asia but I am extremely glad that their study habits have not spread here. The people I work with who grew up in those strict households are completely useless in the business world because they don’t know how to think independently.
@ 08:19 True story.
Do all that and still have your GDP less than half of US with more than four times the population?
I really wonder if standards for asians is that low…
I am reminded of the time when a japanese study came out saying americans only use as much as half of brain and japanese, then someone asked why if japanese are using all their brains, they still could not beat america in terms of gdp being only proportional to japan’s population (1/3 around 2005/2011).
Wow did you just link national GDP to using your brain…wow just wow.
It’s the first step on the road to The Matrix, and
we were here to see it!
Hard work and determination is for “slaves” that work for the people in charge.
Sounds like someone is butt hurt. 🙁