The general argument made by Alix Spiegel in his work Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning. Explains that there are different ways that different cultures and country's approach teaching and the education of their children as the United States continues to fall behind in academic excellence many countries continue to grow their academic prowess. More specifically the author points out that in Asian countries the students dont just give up when faced with a problem that they have not worked on the students in the United States just give up after a short period of time where students of the same age and intelagence level will sit and work on a problem for hours. Alix states that althouigh students in the
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You hear th educators from Asian countries express that concern alot. This suggests that although they are smarter they dont have a social life which is vital to a childs development into an adult. In my view it is wrong to force children to learn at a higher level then they are comfortable with as and example Alix states that when he was in Asia the teacher made a child stand in front of the class and do an assignment Alix recounts that the student looked like he was about to cry and it took several trys for him to get the problem done although when he finally got it done the whole class cheered for him and he looked very proud to have finally figiured out the problem. I believe that is cruel and unusual punishment because children can be very judgeing and probably made fun of the student for being un intelegent. Although it is good for students to have a little bit of a challenge and it is nice to finally over come them sometimes you have to give up and although other cultures and countries may be smarter they have less of a social life compaired to the United states and in todays world you dont really need to be very smart to know about many things as google, yahoo, bing, and many other search engines and apps have made it easy to find information
You hear th educators from Asian countries express that concern alot. This suggests that although they are smarter they dont have a social life which is vital to a childs development into an adult. In my view it is wrong to force children to learn at a higher level then they are comfortable with as and example Alix states that when he was in Asia the teacher made a child stand in front of the class and do an assignment Alix recounts that the student looked like he was about to cry and it took several trys for him to get the problem done although when he finally got it done the whole class cheered for him and he looked very proud to have finally figiured out the problem. I believe that is cruel and unusual punishment because children can be very judgeing and probably made fun of the student for being un intelegent. Although it is good for students to have a little bit of a challenge and it is nice to finally over come them sometimes you have to give up and although other cultures and countries may be smarter they have less of a social life compaired to the United states and in todays world you dont really need to be very smart to know about many things as google, yahoo, bing, and many other search engines and apps have made it easy to find information