Does U.S really have the best education in the world? That is a question I keep wondering from the first day I came here, and now my conclusion is that maybe U.S has the best high level education but not necessarily for the elementary level. The reason why I say this is because I think from first grade to eighth grade, American students learn far less than students in other countries like China, Japan, and vice versa. Based on my personal experience, American students do not learn much about math and sciences, my first year studying in Indiana is sophomore year in a private high school, and what they taught me is the contents that I have learned in 7th grade in China. One reason for such thing is best explained in words from page 204, chapter
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From this quote we can see that students do not respect their teachers enough, the lack of respect will make teachers unable to teach properly. Another reason is that there is a lack of resources for public elementary education, based on a 10th grade English teacher’s words “Many teachers, especially in urban schools, are working with at-risk students with very few of the necessary resources to support them. A classroom of 35-plus students without books is hardly a learning environment.” (Nicole Amato, 2015). The lack of resources will obviously cause troubles for public elementary school teachers to teach, they have to read the contents for their students, explain everything while students with plenty resources can just find out themselves. I think the lack of public elementary education support is really hurting U.S education …show more content…
Here I want to compare the education system between my home country China and the United States, because I have been studied in the U.S for four years and I was born and raised in China for the first fifteen years of my life. The first thing comes up in my mind when I am considering all of the main differences is freedom. The American students have more freedoms in many aspects in their lives, the freedom of choosing classes, of having leisure time of doing things that they want to do and vice versa. From the passage “The Difference Between Chinese and American Education”, we can also see that freedom is one of the most important thing when the author Angela Wang considering the difference, “Unlike in Western countries, students in China do not have the freedom to choose what they want to learn. Chinese schools uniformly use standardized textbooks composed and published by regime. From Grade 1, students receive one textbook for each subject, and have to carry the ones they need to school for class everyday.” (Wang, 2015). This is exactly what happened in my student life in China, from grade one to grade nine, all I learned can be classified to ten subjects, Chinese, Math, English, Physics, Politics, Chemistry, Biology, Arts, history and physical education. These were the subjects that every student has to take in my province ShanDong. This is very different from America, when I first got in my
From this quote we can see that students do not respect their teachers enough, the lack of respect will make teachers unable to teach properly. Another reason is that there is a lack of resources for public elementary education, based on a 10th grade English teacher’s words “Many teachers, especially in urban schools, are working with at-risk students with very few of the necessary resources to support them. A classroom of 35-plus students without books is hardly a learning environment.” (Nicole Amato, 2015). The lack of resources will obviously cause troubles for public elementary school teachers to teach, they have to read the contents for their students, explain everything while students with plenty resources can just find out themselves. I think the lack of public elementary education support is really hurting U.S education …show more content…
Here I want to compare the education system between my home country China and the United States, because I have been studied in the U.S for four years and I was born and raised in China for the first fifteen years of my life. The first thing comes up in my mind when I am considering all of the main differences is freedom. The American students have more freedoms in many aspects in their lives, the freedom of choosing classes, of having leisure time of doing things that they want to do and vice versa. From the passage “The Difference Between Chinese and American Education”, we can also see that freedom is one of the most important thing when the author Angela Wang considering the difference, “Unlike in Western countries, students in China do not have the freedom to choose what they want to learn. Chinese schools uniformly use standardized textbooks composed and published by regime. From Grade 1, students receive one textbook for each subject, and have to carry the ones they need to school for class everyday.” (Wang, 2015). This is exactly what happened in my student life in China, from grade one to grade nine, all I learned can be classified to ten subjects, Chinese, Math, English, Physics, Politics, Chemistry, Biology, Arts, history and physical education. These were the subjects that every student has to take in my province ShanDong. This is very different from America, when I first got in my