Take for example our encouragement of students to participate in more extracurricular activities. Schools assumed this was a new criterion for advancement, and students swarmed to join clubs, hotly contesting the positions for officers, creating a terrible new source of pressure.
譬如說，鼓勵孩子在學校多開展社團活動，結果學校以為這就是新的入學標準，又一窩蜂擠社團、競選幹部，變成了可怕的新壓力。