Wanted in China: More Male Teachers, to Make Boys Men (Published 2016)

Lin Wei is a sixth-grade teacher at a primary school in Fuzhou, China. Chinese educators are worried that a shortage of male teachers has produced a generation of timid, self-centered students.Credit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times FUZHOU, China — The history class began with a lesson on being manly. Lin Wei, 27, one of a handful of male sixth-grade teachers at a primary school here, has made

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男女クラスだと発言しにくいとか、成績で女子に劣り入試で男に下駄はかせるとかどんだけだらしないんだと。「男らしく」するために男性教員を必死になる一因が教員は「男らしい」給料の仕事じゃないというオチか