LESSONS FOR LIFE

生命的教育

Chinese education is known for being academically rigorous, but what about learning outside the classroom? As the country pursues education reform, some voices in society also call for improving both children and adults’ knowledge about the important facts of life: sex and relationships, coming to terms with death, and developing good aesthetic tastes. In this issue’s cover story, we look at these initiatives and give China a report card from the “school of life.”