国家总督学顾问、教育家陶西平在抨击中小学作文教学中的弊端时,曾经举过一个和“母亲”有关的例子:某高校一名外教让学生完成一篇写母亲的英语作文,所有的学生都完成得非常轻松,因为他们从小学就开始写这个内容,写起来毫不费劲。然而,外教的阅卷结果却出入意料一他质问学生:“你们的母亲难道都是一样的吗?难道她们从来没有不负责过?难道母亲就没有自私过吗?” At a time when he criticized the malpractices in the composition teaching of primary and secondary schools, Tao Xiping, an adviser and educator to the State Governor, once cited an example related to “mother”: a foreign teacher in a university asked the students to complete an essay writing their mother’s English, All students are done very relaxed, because they started to write this content from primary school, write it effortlessly. However, the result of the foreign teachers’ reading was unexpected. He challenged the students: “Are your mothers the same? Are they never irresponsible? Does the mother have no selfishness?”