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Beijing Has 26 Elite Universities. Four Provinces With 300 Million People Have Six.
26 and 6: The higher education rift between Beijing and the four provinces Beijing has 26 Project 211 universities. Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Hebei have more than 300 million people and six. Put these numbers together. They need no annotation.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
A Tsunami Hit Mathematics. Academia Just Built a Surfboard.
On October 11, 2026, the Yau Mathematical and AI Laboratory Alliance was established at Tsinghua University. Shing-Tung Yau leads it. It brings together eight major mathematical institutions: Qiuzhen College, the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, the Beijing Yanqi Lake Institute of Applied Mathematics, the Morningside Center of Mathematics, the Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, the Southeast University Yau Center, the Hetao Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences in Shenzhen, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s cross-disciplinary mathematical science academy. The alliance has more than 1,000 scientists. Its stated directions include mathematics-specific large models, AI-assisted formal proof and conjecture discovery, interpretable AI, and intelligent computing in cross-disciplinary fields.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
AI Proved 370 Theorems Overnight. The Math Department Went Silent.
Three in the morning, fourth floor of the math department. One corridor light was out. The other made the whiteboard look gray. Lao Chen refreshed arXiv. The list had grown by three hundred seventy proofs. The numbers ran one after another, like parts coming off a line. He clicked the first one. Two lines of definitions. One lemma. He scrolled. On the third page, he stopped. The whiteboard still held the problem he had written three years ago. The same conjecture. Its corner was smudged from his sleeve. He closed the page. The screen went dark and showed the stubble on his chin.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
The Phantom Inheritance: Why Parents Burn Their Children with Yesterday’s Defeats
Act I: The Gathering in Baghdad On a quiet, rain-scented night within Baghdad’s legendary Bayt al-Hikmah (The House of Wisdom), the gilded lamps of Caliph Al-Ma’mun illuminated rows of cedarwood shelves heavy with parchment scrolls. Outside, the Tigris rolled in silence; inside, the greatest minds of the Islamic Golden Age were deliberating an enduring human dilemma.
By Noor Kids Academyabout a month ago in Education
I Thought I Was Helping My First Grader With Homework. I Was Teaching Her to Fear My Cough.
At the start of first grade, the quietest place in the house was the desk. I turned on the lamp. My older daughter and I sat on opposite sides. She took out her pinyin workbook. I put my phone face down on the table. She read “b-ang-bang” as “b-ang-ban.” I coughed once. Her pencil stopped in midair. Eraser crumbs were piled by her thumb. She looked up at me, looked down, and erased the “ban.” She rubbed a hole in the workbook.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
You Don’t Hate Liang Canbin’s Differential Geometry. You Hate the Entry Point.
You open Liang Canbin. The first page defines a topological space. A few pages later, you meet manifolds, homeomorphisms, tangent spaces. You know every symbol. You cannot connect them. You ask why manifolds need topology. You ask why the metric needs tensors. The first five chapters do not answer. The answers sit later in the book, or they assume you will fill them in yourself.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
Anorexia Nervosa is a Disorder of perception
The online Australian Doctor on 6 October 2026 published an article titled "Woman diagnosed with anorexia made final plea for better treatment of eating disorders before her death" .
By Mal Mohanlalabout a month ago in Education
The Teacher Said to Put the Pencil Down at 10 P.M. I Wish We Had Done It Sooner
The clock jumps to 10:03. The Chinese workbook is open. Two math problems are blank. The English word list has a folded corner. The child pokes the eraser with a pencil and makes a small hole. Mom stands at the door with her phone lit. The teacher has sent one line: “Just sleep. Don’t write anymore.” Dad lowers his voice in the living room: “Then what do we tell the teacher tomorrow?” No one answers. The child looks up, then down. The pencil keeps poking the eraser.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
They Opened the Dorms at -4°C. They Didn’t Ask the Students.
On the night of October 4, the temperature in Qilian County fell to minus four. The hotel front desk put up a No Vacancy sign. Tourists stood on the street with their suitcases. Staff from the Culture and Tourism Bureau arrived with a list and led them to two middle schools. The dormitory door opened. The matron stood to one side, a ring of keys in her hand. The culture and tourism director bent down to make the beds. The bedding was new. The bed boards had been slept on by students. Tourists said thank you. The director said it was what they should do. No one asked who used to sleep in that bed.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
I Had 10,000 English Words in My Head. Why Couldn’t I Speak?
You know the words. Reading feels like automatic doors. Then you open your mouth. The doors jam. You want to say, “Wire this into the pipeline.” What comes out is, “Put this new code into the old process.” The other person nods. You nod. The conversation moves on. You also move on, but part of you stays behind, staring at the sentence you did not say.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education
Not Preparing Children For Life Is Preparing Them For Failure
Our world is changing by the nanoseconds daily. So are human minds and how they raise their children. I volunteer as a teacher’s aide to sixth graders who are preparing for the Primary Exit Profile PEP, which will determine which high school they attend next September. While in a conversation with a few of them, talking about which high schools they want to attend and what grade those high schools demand, one of the females said, “My mom said I shouldn’t worry about the future. Focus on now.”
By Annelise Lords about a month ago in Education
The Ghost of Galois: A 20-Year-Old’s Notes That Still Haunt Graduate School
On May 29, 1832, Paris. Galois sat at a desk. Papers covered it. He wrote fast. Letters ran together. Some steps were missing. He had to leave something behind. The next morning he would fight a duel. He was twenty. He did not know if he would live. He gave the papers to a friend and asked him to take them to the Academy. Then he went to the dueling ground.
By Jinabout a month ago in Education