We Should Cherish Our Children's Freedom To Think Summary

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College students is getting many difference educations between country, and some countries focus on their imagination, and others focus on their solid knowledge. There is no doubt that America have one of the top education system in the world, otherwise, will not attract many foreign students comes and study here. From the article We Should Cherish Our Children 's Freedom to Think by Ki Ho, he shows what he thinks about American education and he mainly states American education is the top education and is a country of innovation, because American system is more letting students to “think” and less focus on “actual knowledge”. I overall disagree with Ho’s point that American education system is the best in the world, and student could liberal thinking and imagining is more important than knowing the factual knowledge. But I still agree with the idea that students be able to freedom
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113). Ho’s evidences were “an excursion to the Laguna Beach Museum of Art, where the work of schoolchildren was on exhibit” (p. 113). His supports his argument by the public school let students to participate to visit an “art tour”, and this evidence was his own experience and blurry. Additionally, he shows the reader about American education is more about creativity and do not need to remember the knowledge by used the example from him and his son. When he was young and still in Indonesia, he has to memorize all the world’s major cities, but, his son whose been raise in America, do not need to do that. Under American education, his son’s school was teaching map skill by let him draw a map and traveled base on that map. He believes that help a lot to his son’s creative to his geography. Again, this was another personal story and lack of persuade evidences about

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