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all agree that education is the foundation stone of one country. So let’s look at the difference on education. The goal for the American education is to cultivate mentally and physically healthy citizens while the Chinese elitist managers. The outcome of such education for elites is that the students lack of vitality for their innovation. American university professors reveal that, for Chinese students, they always achieve high scores in exams but when you ask them to give some suggestions and assumptions they will be silent. That is to say, Chinese students are not accustomed to imagine daringly but are good at remembering knowledge. But imagination is the origin of creation. The focus falls to how to encourage the students to imagine and be innovative. There are three suggestions. First, people should encourage the ordinary students to show themselves. One of the writer’s teachers studied in America in 2006 and she luckily was given several opportunities to take part in college activities during that time. In the college-opening ceremony, she recalled one special experience with her students of English major when she participated in a college activity. According to her, the audience gave a little girl a veritable ovation. What is special is that the piano performance of this little girl was not so good. My teacher was deeply touched especially when she was told that the girl has performed for some community parties where she gained the same reaction. In China, the public would not be so tolerant and respectful to such ordinary performance. That is why Chinese students do not like to show their character and be unconfident. For the students’ imagination and confidence, the public is responsible to encourage the ordinary people to show their personality. Second, people should accept students with specific character. An old saying goes like this in China: “The bird which takes the lead gets shot first.” That means the person in the limelight bears the brunt of attack. The person with specific character always suffers setbacks from the society in China. Sha Zukang, Chinese ambassador in UN and the newly appointed Under-Secretary of the UN, once delivered a speech in the UN conference for the resistance against unwarranted charges from America on Chinese human rights. He revolted that America should shut up and look in the mirror itself before it made any judges on other countries. And in the conference he promised to buy America a mirror even though China is poor. The mirror is the report of American human rights investigation provided by China. For a Chinese ambassador in UN, to do like this is reasonable because everyone has the right to protect his own country in whatever way he chooses. But Sha Zukang told the journalist from CCTV-News in February 2007, that among the people who opposed his style, Chinese were much more than foreigners. Such kind of straight ford character has little market in China. People are more likely accustomed to common person with ordinary character. That is very harmful to cultivation of the ability of creation. Third, college students should leave the ivory tower and grow up in an open environment. To a university student, success requires two essential factors: to be open-minded and be the master of yourself. College students in China are like pandas. Their teachers, parents and relatives think of them as children and their only task is to study but never touch anything outside the campus lest they