Is tearing up textbooks a good way to relieve stress?

oasisgreen (China)

My impression is that school is paradise for students before college in western countries, but it takes really a lot to get through college to get a degree, while in China it's reversed. It's like hell before gaokao and paradise after. It has been a long time since graduation from college, not sure if anything changed, but most likely it's the same.

Students practice headstands in a classroom to relieve stress in Suining, Sichuan province, on June 4, 2007. [Photo/VCG]