| Major differences in Chinese and American education | |
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| Jun 20, 2010 20:26 | #41   |
| GUEST45134 | The Chinese education system is probably one of the worst in the world. All testing and exams for kids from primary to high school are all based on multiple choice! They may have great content, but there is little critical thinking and creativeness. They will not become the innovation leader of the world with a system like that. From a guy who lives and work in China. |
| Jul 8, 2010 01:28 | #42 |
| GUEST96656 | From a girl who lives and teaches in China, and who used to live and teach in the US: Sorry, no comparison. None whatsoever. I can, after much mental bludgeoning and persuasion, eke an original thought out of my students. But 9.98 times out of 10, a Chinese person has absolutely nothing new to say. I know what they're going to say before they even open their mouth. Why? I've heard it all before...you talk to one, you've talked to them all. |
| Jul 8, 2010 20:15 | #43 |
 | US has much less edu investment compared with its neigbor, Canada. I hesitated to say US has advanced edu system. However, it's the place that attracts excellent graduates from its northern neigbor coz it provides more opp. to make money, In US, high level edu has been a lucrative biz. In US,the value of uni degree is much lower than its northern neigbor. And also in Europe, especially in UK and other western european countries, this kind of lucrative high edu biz is continuing making huge profits by attracking foreigners who need the short cut. So in this sense, American education system failed. |
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| Jul 9, 2010 22:33 | #44 |
| All countries have their educational shortcomings, including Canada. Did the US disappoint you to make such a statement? You are Chinese living in Canada? Maybe China disappointed you! |
| Jul 22, 2010 12:47 | #45 |
| GUEST93149 | As an educator, I know that there is alot of work needed in the US.(pertaining to the educational standards). The No Child Left Behind is hindering the children and the teachers because we are passing children who do not need to be passed to the next grade level. If a child cannot read, why send him/her to middle school. Hold the parents accountable. Instead of the parents allowing their kids to stay home by themselves in the summer. They should hire a teenage babysitter or family member to make sure the children aren't playing the playstation all day or watching tv all day. The Chinese and Japanese cultures are much more disciplined and serious about education and teaching skills needed to be prosperous in life. We have a choice. However, we choose to make more bills than we need. Consequently, we must work two jobs to maintain that lifestyle and then our children suffer. We as people must be wiser and set our priorities in order. We must put our children first and buy only what is necessary to live, until we are able to afford more. |
| Jul 25, 2010 01:12 | #46 |
| GUESTCARL | In China, I think the same thing happened,"pass children who do not need to be passed to the next grade level", especially in their compulsory education period. Not only parents accountable, teachers and education system, either. But, how it works? in China, children have to go to the holiday school for English, math, piano and painting, etc no matter they like it or not. Indeed the education in China is more disciplined and serious. But it still need lots of work. |
| Aug 7, 2010 09:53 | #47 |
| GUESTGUESTB | Why should China adopt the US system of individual self-expression, when the cultural values are totally different? Japan is even more conformist than China, and with only half the population of the US and a shorter developmental history, they seem to be doing quite well in the 'creative' and innovation areas, and lead the world in many areas of advanced technology, remarkable considering they were the only advanced industrialized nation in Asia for decades, and face huge cultural and linguistic challenges in importing scientific and technological knowledge from the rest of the world. In the 60s, Japanese electronics were considered junk, but not 15-20 years later Sony Walkmans and Casio Gamewatches are taking the world by storm. Even today, isn't the Wii the most innovative of the videogame consoles? Many all individuals retain the ability to be creative, and other factors like team cohesion, shared values, government programs, infrastructure, etc. are more important to technological advancement than the so-called 'free creative expression' allowed in American schools. |
| Aug 9, 2010 09:18 | #48 |
| Quote:Originally Posted by FARAH All countries have their educational shortcomings, including Canada. Did the US disappoint you to make such a statement? You are Chinese living in Canada? Maybe China disappointed you!i agree. it takes time to do evrything... |
| Oct 12, 2010 08:16 | #49 |
| Just to add a different prospective to this interesting topic ...while I agree with the debate about the best educational method, I also believe that the educational program is at least as much important. In Europe for decades there has been the same debate about two methods named Steiner and Montessori but at the end they proved that they could be both valid if supported by the proper content. In short, while I don't know about Chinese education, I have the impression that the default american lack of more than 3000 years of history/art and so on in its educational content is comparable at the lack of foundation for a building ... |
| Jan 23, 2011 15:52 | #50 |
| GUEST36185 | I believe that you are absolutely right in that. However, I also think that rote only applies to languages like Chinese and Arabic and other similar ethnic languages such as Tibetan where early education is revolving memorizing, not thinking. In the English language because of the simplicity of the language itself, we are allowed the opportunity to start in earlier age where the Chinese have to wait until much later, that is, accumulate facts to think and reason. With the teaching of phonics early on, children can start reading under the guidance of parents early in their lives. Interest in reading of course is the result of guidance and persistent pressure from the parents. Professor Amy Chua's ways may not appeal to everybody but her methods for early development is much appreciated by a lot of us. There is nothing wrong with American education. The problem is the way we train our teachers especially our school administrators. The american education is modern and liberal however, our adminstrators are behind by half a century. Their should be more done on that than anything else to help our children to learn at schools. They are the foundation of our education system and if they are not corrected our children will fall farther and farther behind. The intent of no children left behind is good but the execution was never well thought out. We should never forsake the well endowed for the slow ones. Just look at the Chinese education system, they will drop the slow ones or the ones that cannot catch up irregardless of the reason. They will never slow down the gifted and regular students from advancing. in MHO, children should be teaching memorization such is phonics rules and math tables early on. They should be guided in the hows and whys of things and, not being told " that's how they are ! " The teachers should have the dedication to teach instead of looking the profession as a way to make a living. ( May be this is too much to ask when the lawyers, doctors and engineers make much more than they do !! ) With the present adminstration's political direction towards socialism may be we should look at Northern European countries where lawyers, doctors and engineers are pay at par or close to it than the teachers. All in all, both American and Chinese education systems are good. It all depends on if the teachers have the correct mental attitude to carry them out. The Chinese seems to be ahead than the Americans in their public school systems. As for the private school sector, they all use system closer to American than Chinese. As a matter of fact the selling point for the private school system in China is that they adopt American system. Just remember the children are as good as how they are taught. |
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