Can you climb trees? Maybe your parents ever told you, "Don't climb trees. It's {#blank#}1{#/blank#}." But Xiamen University is going to have a new class: Tree-climbing.

    Zhu Chongshi, the president of Xiamen University, once visited Cornell University in New York, and he was surprised {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the course there. In Tree-climbing class, the teachers do not just let the students {#blank#}3{#/blank#} only with their hands. They teach the safety skills like {#blank#}4{#/blank#} used in rock-climbing. Students wear special caps and clothes to protect {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. And they use ropes so that they cannot {#blank#}6{#/blank#} or get hurt. The class is very useful. Students are {#blank#}7{#/blank#} to learn the skills, like swimming. In a time of disasters such as floods, earthquakes, etc., such knowledge may make a {#blank#}8{#/blank#} between life and death.

    No classroom subject could ever give them these skills. Students should find and develop their own inborn (与生俱来的) skills and talents. A teacher should no longer see the child as an {#blank#}9{#/blank#} cup and only pour knowledge into it. I hope climbing trees will {#blank#}10{#/blank#} up the potential (潜力) in many students.