Compare And Contrast Indian Education And Indian Education

American vs. Indian Education What is an education system? What is education? Education is the process of gaining or giving proper instructions, especially at a school. Both Indian and American societies place importance on certain skills to the exclusion of others. It was shocking for me to observe that my American engineering students had this mental block about math. Not only were their basic algebra skills, taught in middle and high schools, very poor, it was almost as if they had been taught that math is hard and they should avoid it as much as possible. They were not really bad at math after being taught something but they just had a fear and inertia to learn anything math-related. A similar phenomenon is found among Indian students …show more content…
In an American high school, a student has many resources, like a guidance counselor, who helps the student with his subject selection for the upcoming semester or prepare the student for graduation other major resource for a student can be his/her teacher regardless the subject that teacher teaches, he/she just can talk to that teacher for advice. On the other side it is completely different in India a school in India won’t have a guidance counselor and there is still some communication gap between a student and a teacher a student in India just can’t go talk to his teacher and openly talk about his/her personal issues but on other hand in American high schools it is noticed that students are able to do that and the teachers help them to solve their …show more content…
In US a student can major anytime he/she feels like to do. The student only has to change his subjects in order to change his major. The level of pressure on students is completely different in both systems. Student of American education system has some amount of pressure during his/her sophomore, junior and senior. On other side the Indian students have lot of pressure during last three years of high school because that decides there future and the major students choose to go. The pressure increases more from the parents and the teachers. In the US, the choices you make in your higher education are much more open. You get admitted to a college, select a major and take appropriate courses while also taking a lot of other courses which expand your horizons. This is good for your overall development but makes it difficult to specialize in a field. Compared to that, in India and most of Europe, you need to narrow down your choices in the last two years of high school and then further narrow it down by the time you get admitted to college. Once in college, you get to take very few courses which are outside your domain. This helps you in gaining specialization much earlier and perhaps makes you more valuable workers but have a worse effect on your personal