South Korean Education: The Immobility it creates
Introduction:
The South Korean education system provides exceptional teaching, academic support, and competition. The largest factor, however, isn 't one of these things. It is how much hard work each student spends outside of the school day on their academics, that sets them apart from other countries. The influences and high focus on their study habits and the additional private tutoring that they are expected to take part in, is what I do not support.
Competition
As Korean Education: A Philosophical and Historical Perspective, discusses on page one, "the college entrance examinations provide a vivid example of what Koreans sometimes call their 'education fever '." Every person in South …show more content…
97.9 percent of that population has gone through some kind of education, which would be about 49 million people are educated in South Korea. Only 4 million of those original 50 million people will get the highly respected college education that they are seeking in South Korea. There is not enough room in the Korean education system to support the amount of students who want to achieve the highest degree of education that they would like to achieve. South Korea is constantly telling students that they cannot attend a college that they are perfectly capable of attending; the competition is simply too high.
Social Mobility During class, we have established the fact that South Korea is very economically stable and financially able to be responsible when it comes to their management of money. So why are we questioning their investments in private education? Their economic outcome shows hard work, it proves that their teachers are great teachers, and it shows that all students grow to have a successful career that helps them provide for their families. So why would anyone be unhappy in any of these outcomes? Respect. Since your social status determines the amount of respect you and your family receive, your level of education is the largest factor in determining that. There is an abundance of social immobility, which creates an awkward, unspoken inequality not only in the education system, but within the country as a
Introduction:
The South Korean education system provides exceptional teaching, academic support, and competition. The largest factor, however, isn 't one of these things. It is how much hard work each student spends outside of the school day on their academics, that sets them apart from other countries. The influences and high focus on their study habits and the additional private tutoring that they are expected to take part in, is what I do not support.
Competition
As Korean Education: A Philosophical and Historical Perspective, discusses on page one, "the college entrance examinations provide a vivid example of what Koreans sometimes call their 'education fever '." Every person in South …show more content…
97.9 percent of that population has gone through some kind of education, which would be about 49 million people are educated in South Korea. Only 4 million of those original 50 million people will get the highly respected college education that they are seeking in South Korea. There is not enough room in the Korean education system to support the amount of students who want to achieve the highest degree of education that they would like to achieve. South Korea is constantly telling students that they cannot attend a college that they are perfectly capable of attending; the competition is simply too high.
Social Mobility During class, we have established the fact that South Korea is very economically stable and financially able to be responsible when it comes to their management of money. So why are we questioning their investments in private education? Their economic outcome shows hard work, it proves that their teachers are great teachers, and it shows that all students grow to have a successful career that helps them provide for their families. So why would anyone be unhappy in any of these outcomes? Respect. Since your social status determines the amount of respect you and your family receive, your level of education is the largest factor in determining that. There is an abundance of social immobility, which creates an awkward, unspoken inequality not only in the education system, but within the country as a