Education is a process of facilitating learning. Education is the most
important thing in people’s lives. Everyone needs it .
Talking about education, people will think about Chinese education and
American education. However which one is better? As far as I am concerned
the American education system is better than Chinese education system.
To begin with, American students are more independent than Chinese
students. As you know American students do things all by themselves.
However ,Chinese students always rely on their parents. Because American
education teaches students to do everything by themselves. That’s why most
American students know how to do housework. But Chinese students hardly
ever do it . When they grow up their home will be messy because they don’t
know how to do it and they already get used to let others do it for them.
Besides, American education focuses more on childrens interests instead
of just focusing on study. They encourage students to do more activities .
Moreover, most American students have a better body, because they do
more exercise. However, Chinese students just study all day, they don’t have
much time to do sports, as they have so many homework and haveto take extra
classes. Chinese education is just for taking tests. If you askwhat are their
interests, they don’t know. But it’s different to Americanstudents. They knew
their interests and they will do it in the future.
Last but not least, American students are more creative. American students
are educated to have more experience. They have the importance of researching
a question. Chinese students only receive what the teacher tellsthem and they
don’t think about it on the next level.
Thank you for this Cathy. I wish there was a little more time in that you could have developed your ideas a little better. For example, is it really a good argument that an American public school education is better than a Chinese public school education because students in America grow up with the independence of mind to do housework? In fact I’m not even sure that that is true!
Nevertheless, you end with a provocative idea when you suggest that “Chinese students only receive what the teacher tells them” and “don’t think about it on the next level”. This is something I would have liked to have heard more about, ideally with some robust evidence to support your claims.
I can also appreciate that you have had to prepare this rather quickly and were not present for much of our classwork. I do appreciate you taking the time to post this.