Advantages And Disadvantages Of Chinese Education

Over a period of year’s education has grown to be very important to many cultures all over the world. At one time in many cultures children were only taught what was necessary to get along and sometimes only children of the wealthy would be taught. China’s government

First of all, theory disadvantage. Traditional Chinese teaching method is based on the principle of “rotate learning, skill comes”. Thus, students need to do a lot of practices everyday to get questions and

There was a time she didn’t know how to describe a “white board marker” in Chinese, so she asked her class how to say it. “One girl, who went by the name of Tracy, eagerly told [Stephanie the word], and had a huge smile on her face” (Lam). Even though the language barrier was difficult, she and her students overcame it together with pointing and various other universal gestures and facial expressions. This way, the students were encouraged to understand English better to communicate with their teacher, and my cousin refined her own oral Chinese skills. The students “were kind and willing to help despite [her] poor Chinese, and didn’t judge [her] either” (Lam). The students were happy enough that she came all the way to Taiwan to teach them English. They respected this, and were eager to help her discover a new culture and improve on her Chinese abilities. The barrier was still tough for Stephanie, but thanks to the kindness of her students, it was much easier to bear through and succeed. It was a new and unknown world for my cousin, but she still made the most of her experience and discovered so much more about East Asian culture.

For Asian Americans who do decide to pursue teaching K-12 as a career, however, these feelings of personal inadequacy still persist. In Nguyen’s (2008) article focusing on five Vietnamese-American preservice teachers, who did some or all of their K-12 education in Vietnam, Nguyen (2008) found that her participants saw that “their distinct cultural and physical characteristics did not fir those of a traditionally defined American teacher,” which caused parents, but not students, to look down on these teachers (p. 127). Like Gordon (2000), Nguyen (2008) found many of her participants were trying to live up to the Confucian model of a teacher they were used to having in Vietnam but were struggling to apply their perception of teaching within a United States context. Asian Americans who would become teachers, then, seem to struggle with wanting to try to assert themselves as experts in the classroom while also feeling alienated from the teaching profession because of the typical notions of teaching in the United

In his article, “Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning,” Alix Spiegel presents many interesting points. He links the difference in educational style and success to a much larger cultural difference that separates the two groups. While I may agree with him on some fronts, there are many flaws in his argument. From his presentation of information and evidence to his use of an outdated study, Alix Spiegel leaves many holes in what could be an extraordinarily insightful piece.

Having a limited to knowledge of their culture, I do know that various aspects of their culture may in fact influence their needs as learners. To be more specific, the goal of the students in Chinese culture is to pass tests. Usually these tests are multiple choice and students must pass these tests in order to move on to university. They are limited in the amount of social activities and independent, creative thinking. They often do not get the opportunity to express themselves or think critically. Because of these various cultural differences, many foreign students often struggle academically

Students are being taught the wrong way according the Freire. Freire mentions "narration leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated content. Worse yet, it turns them into containers, into receptacles to be filled by the teacher"(pg. 1). In other words this means that 's a teacher 's or instructor 's job is to teach the children all the requirements that are needed and they expect them to know all the

To some people this is not be viewed as a stereotype due to the fact it is not instantly perceived as “negative”; for those readers who delve in deeper, this stereotype outlines the educational daily hidden pressure of people from Chinese descent whom do not fit this “positive” stereotype. Every day, especially in American society, classmates look to their Asian counterparts to provide the answers to questions they do not know in every subject they take. Nonetheless, this ridiculous assumption hurts the Asian students that do not feel comfortable with their intellectual abilities. Placing Asian students as the “model student” excludes the students who actually have problems and need help that other classmates are reluctant to give the students simply because their classmates do not view helping their struggling Asian classmates as an actual necessity. By “poking” fun and bringing into light both Asian stereotypes, Yang enforces view that stereotypes are in use today.

The education system serves to be another oppressive institution as the teachers purposely alienate the Asian American students from the others. Instead of being seen as unique for being first-generation citizens, they are viewed as being deviants and hassles. The teachers, though some have Asian roots, refuse to understand the struggle or lifestyle of these children who have come from immigrant families. This is seen when Florante talks about Mrs. Takara saying she is, “A Japanese and an American wrestling in one mind. He says that her American upbringing has blinded her from reading between the lines of the history textbooks where silent people choke from invisibility and humiliation” (Linmark 49). This mindset definitely results in the obvious racist undertones that are evident throughout the education system.

American teachers and parents hold different points of view in terms of the way of encouragement from Chinese teachers and parents. In the U.S. teachers and parents are very kind that they often encourage students in a positive way. That is, if I do poorly in a test, they would say, “Hey, don’t be frustrated. You will do well in the next test!” If it is in China, the scenario would be: “Don’t dream to hang out with your friends during weekend until you do well in the next test! This kind of scenario is quite familiar to me. The last time that this situation occurred to me was just less than three years ago when I was a high school freshman in China. Here’s the thing: I got 95 out of 100 in a history exam and was so prepared to be praised and even awarded by my parents as soon as I got

Society expects for students to be able to learn and comprehend any information that is being thrown out. Some students seem naturally enthusiastic about learning, but many need-or expect-their instructors to inspire, challenge, and

The differences that exist between the Chinese and American education systems are great and obvious. However, some of these differences don’t play to the strengths of the representative country. American schools allow for greater freedom of movement and choice, while Chinese schools decide the “what”, “where”, and “how” of educational circumstance for the students (Bush, tony, and Qiang Haiyan). These differences in structure should lead to a greater educational standard being held by China, but that isn’t always the case. This paper will examine the differences in education system in the two countries and show that the Chinese system, while

Throughout history, China was viewed as one of the superpowers and its economic strength and influence on other nations were vastly significant. Some say that China is becoming a center of the world economically and militarily, however, during the 19th century, Chinese people actually believed that China was the center the world and it was quite true. China experienced great benefits of being a superior country than other countries, but later they faced some problems or disadvantages of being an enemy against all the other nations, especially the West.

The differences between the Chinese education and the American education are more obvious in people’s mind, not only to the international students, but also to the native students and some people who study on this. As more and more Chinese students come to America to have better education, we should think about why the American education system is better and how could we change our system to have a new education system in China. These differences have some deeply reason, like the American is the nation which loves freedom. It took long time to make such a big difference between the two education systems, and we need longer time to change it. An undeniable

“As a international students, I care a lot about the difference of education system between the U.S. and China.”(culture shock) I realized that the educational ideas