How do you think of overemphasis on english education?

Hi, I will answer your question from a teacher's point of view that my colleagues who have taught in China have discussed with me. Any reasonably educated foreigner coming to China to teach English is taking a paycut, so this already indicates that they're not your typical greedy ,materialistic person, and must therefore be looking for something other than money. So you can imagine how such teachers will not look too highly upon anyone, educated or otherwise, foreigner or local, whose only aim seems to be money.

It's pretty frustrating when both the foreign and local teachers speak to the headmaster with one voice, saying that's it's not worth having students learn English in kindergarten and early primary school, yet the headmaster has focussed all the attention there, as a promotional activity (and these are reputable institutions, not training centres!). The school will ask the foreign teachers flat out if he/she knows other native speakers who want to teach if they speak with a standard North American or British accent. So what message does that send to the Chinese students? Everyone in the world is a white native English speaker who speaks with a British or North American accent, and the rest of the world doesn't exist? Believe it or not, this kind of screening even occurs in some of the more respected universities.Then when the teachers ask for teaching materials so as to be able to create a decent curriculum, forget it. Add to that that when the teachers ask a Chinese student why he's learning English, it's for university credits, a job or business, seldom for cultural reasons, and students then expect foreign English teachers to speak English to them in their own time so as to get free tutoring in English conversation practice or translate documents. You may disagree with these opinions, but these are true experiences of teachers teaching English in China.