SHANGHAI - Education system in China has been under criticism for a long time since it emphasizes mark instead of quality. For the young president of Yinghao College Alex Chen who has devoted to educating Chinese students for their further education in the U.K. top universities, educational idea is what should be changed most.

“Students who were born in 1980s and 1990s are lack of faith, morale and perception!” said Chen, 28, believing that family, school and society tend to give students pressures rather than abilities to solve problems and learn on their own.

“A country gets strong by educating its citizens; education gets improved by updating ideas. To fund education is a bad plan; to teach students abilities is a fine idea; to equip with good educational ideas is a best plan.”

“An achiever is looking for ways while a loser is looking for excuses.” Chen cited his father as saying. The sentence has been with him for 15 years. “It allows me to think about how to do a better job in what I can do, and for those beyond my ability, I don’t even think about them,” said Chen.

Chen’s father, Chen Zhonglian, known as “Education Madman”, is a famous Chinese educator. He created the first noble private school in China, the first education reserve fund system in China, the first listed company of education brand and the first “manual for Chinese citizens.”

But perhaps his greatest educational achievement is his son – a director of an international high school, the creator of a bi-lingual educational school system, and the education ambassador of British Council.

Alex Chen has studied in U.K. since he was 12 years old. After achieving B.A. in economics at University of London, he worked at a London hedge fund company as a financial analyst.

However, as he is interested in education, he quitted his job and went back to China to set up Yinghao Cambridge international high school when he was 22 years old.

As a green hand in education area, his achievement was yet no less than his father’s. Three years later, his student Shu Dan got admitted to Cambridge University.

In 2010, he won the “Alumnus of the Year Award’ of the British Business Awards. According to the organizer of the awards, Alex Chen “has been proven to be successful and will lead the his company to manage over 10 leading A-level centers within China, facilitating over a thousand students studying in the UK each year directly contributing upwards of 100 million GBP annually to the UK economy.”

“Our school is working on cultivating students who will be leaders 20 years later,” said Chen, arguing that there’s not best education but the most suitable one.

“The Chinese education wants students to be good in every subject, but here, we want them to be good at one subject. We will figure out their advantages and develop them. So in future, I believe whether a student is a politician, an economist, an artist, or an archaeologist, he or she will do whatever he or she wants to do and is able to do, and will do a better job than others.”

As for finance and economics, Chen said although he chose education over them, but education can be connected with finance. He said international education needs to be enlarged to through a bigger and wider platform, a goal that finance and economics can achieve.

Chen admitted that it’s hard to avoid comparisons between him and his father. But he said whether exceeding his father or not is not important for him. He said he just wants to do things he likes and is able to do in future.

“I hope 30 years later, my students can contribute a little bit to the country in every walk of life,” said Chen.