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SHENZHEN nike air max 97 ultra damen , Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- While many Chinese parents arepushing their children hard in the harsh exam-oriented environmentof China's urban school system, Yun Xiang has left the city for thecountryside, determined to raise her child in the arms ofnature.

Yun Xiang and her husband quit their jobs in Beijing two yearsago, and settled down at the foot of the Wutong mountains, in thesuburbs of the southern city of Shenzhen nike air max 97 silber herren , with their five-year-oldson.

""We wanted to let our child get close to nature, and we heardthat there were some good schools here,"" she says.

Her son Dou Dou entered a private school based on the GermanWaldorf education theory, which emphasizes nature and the arts.

In kindergarten, Dou Dou spends a lot of time outdoors. He haslearned how to make pencils with beeswax nike air max 97 schwarz herren , and how to make steamedbread with red bean paste filling.

Dou Dou has now entered the school's primary education section.He has no text books, and is encouraged to create his own textbooks by writing down what he learned in class.

Besides the school built on the basis of a western philosophy ofeducation, the Wutong mountains have also seen the emergence ofSishus, or private schools, which are usually run by families andmainly teaching traditional Chinese classics.

Zhang Zhonghe nike air max 97 rosa , a former painter, now runs a Sishu in themountains. Besides Confucian classics, his students also learn artssuch as calligraphy, Chinese traditional painting and Chineseshadow boxing.

""Confucius said 'A cultured man is not a tool.' Children shouldnot be brought up in a uniform way, and they should be allowed torealize their different potential nike air max 97 herren günstig ,"" Zhang says.

There are a dozen Sishus in the mountains, mostly on a verysmall scale, with a dozen students or less.

Qiu Ying rents out her house in downtown Shenzhen and sends herfive-year-old daughter to a Sishu in the Wutong mountains. Qiuworks in a foreign trade company in the city and spends around twohours commuting every day.

""Getting in close touch with nature is a valuable experience forthe child,"" she says.

More and more like-minded parents are gathering in the Wutongmountains, where an education community of 160 households has beenformed. The parents keep close contact with each other and areactively involved in school activities.

Yun Xiang says that recently in order to help the children'smountain climbing activities every Wednesday nike air max 97 damen günstig , some of the parentsbuilt an 8-meter-long wooden bridge over a cove.

""The best education for children is to inspire them to followtheir own way and teach them what they want to learn,"" shesays.

Sun Yunxiao, an expert with China Youth and Children ResearchCenter, says these schools are a good trial for parents toexperiment with different forms of education, but also points outthe importance of government supervision to ensure qualityeducation.

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by Hummam Sheikh Ali

QARA nike air max 97 herren kaufen , Syria, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Lebanese Hezbollah group and Syrian army are dealing heavy blow to the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria's Qalamoun region near Lebanon to end the presence of the terror-designated group in the border region between both countries.

Just a couple of weeks after dislodging the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front from the Fleita barrens in western Qalamoun region, Hezbollah and the Syrian army went on with a wide-scale offensive to eliminate IS from the Qara and Jarajir badlands in Qalamoun.

Both battles took place on the Lebanese and Syrian sides of the borders, as such mountainous, rugged terrains between Lebanon and Syria are entwined with one another.

The current battle against IS nike air max 97 damen kaufen , however, is different than the previous one with al-Qaida-linked groups, as a deal was reached for the evacuation of Syrian Nusra Front militants from Lebanon toward rebel-held areas in Idlib province in northwestern Syria earlier this month.

This time the IS militants will have no choice but to fight till the end or surrender, as there are no truces on the horizon akin to what happened with the Nusra militants.

One soldier told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that IS militants will either die or surrender in Qalamoun.

Another officer said ending IS presence in the border region is important for Syria and Lebanon.

"The battle against IS in the barrens of Qara and Jarajir is part of the bigger battle against the terror group in Syria," he told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

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Qara has also a residential part, where civilians are still there despite the battles that have flared in the barrens of that area.

Hezbollah and the army have already taken very strategic hilltops and heights in the barrens of Qara and the adjacent Jarajir barrens and are heavily shelling the IS positions as IS has become almost besieged there.

It was strange at first sight when looking to such badlands and how the IS militants were stationing there with their families as no water or any source of food is located.

But the area is strategic, soldiers said, due to its proximity to Lebanon and Damascus.

At one mountain top in Qara, around six artilleries and tanks were stationed nike air max 97 günstig , bombing the areas of IS with smoke rising from the opposite side when the shell lands.

Airstrikes were also backing the ground forces of Hezbollah in their push to eliminate IS in that region, which is considered as tough battles due to the geographic nature of the area and the fact that its open with no place to hide.

Many IS militants have surrendered themselves since Aug. 19 when the battle against them in the barrens of Qara started.

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