China’s Education System

A Brazilian educator and philosopher, Paulo Freire too seem to have seen the bad part of it. In his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), he criticizes the model of a teacher-student relationship that the teacher is a narrator, forcing the student, as the "container" or "receptacle", to only memorize the content she teaches. Therefore, what Freire disapproves is exactly the typical teacher-student relationship in the Chinese classroom. As a native Chinese student experienced this relationship until entered an international high school, I will agree with Freire’s view to criticize it.

Chinese and American students are vastly different however they do have some commonalities. Despite the fact that Chinese students face a much more demanding education system, and less choice within their school, they do share common social interests with American students.

China and the United States are considered large countries in terms of their size and population; they both have the most two of the world largest education system. The United States has large tendency to be more like the western epistemological tradition (2008, Zhao, Y., Zhang, G., Yang, W., Kirkland, D., Han, X., & Zhang, J). While the Chinese are more likely to be rooted in the different perspective of the Confucian tradition. The education practices in U.S American and Chinese are different according to the intercultural communication book, “most teachers in U.S. schools, it is everyday occurrence to have students who come from cultural backgrounds other than their own.” (Lustig, M., & Koester, J., 2013) Chinese teachers have different experiences than U.S. American teachers because, in China, teachers experience the same cultural beliefs except for two different Chinese cultural experiences such as Western cultural practices and Chinese cultural practices. Both apply to teachers and students who interact with same

Education is about teaching and learning for improving skills and knowledge. Education also means helping people to do, to learn and encouraging them to think what they learn. Education can give people knowledge of society, country, the world and many things else. From children to adult are supposed to have knowledge through education. More details, education helps and guide people from uneducated to knowledge.

To pose the question, “what is education?” one would anticipate different answers from different persons. This is because education, as a concept, has no generally and universally accepted definition since every educationist will define the concept based on the factors he considers best as inclusive in the concept. We shall however consider a few of these definitions and employ them as the working definition(s) for this essay.

The Chinese educational system is the biggest educational system in the world. There are 330,000,000 students in China! This is greater than the entire population of the United States of America! The education system goes through grades pre-kindergarten (before age 6) to post graduate (2-3 years for Masters; 2-3 years for Doctorates). The Chinese educational system is not a balanced educational system. While there are some schools in the cities that can match some of our western countries in terms of resourcing the vast majority of schools are in the countryside. The Chinese educational system is a highly competitive educational system. Because of the huge population waiting to be educated, and the limited space in colleges and universities, entrance to higher educational institutions must be very competitive. The Chinese educational system is a centralised educational system. The legislation of education rests not locally or provincially but centrally, with the Ministry.

Of course, the western world is not inane, so there must be a basis that they crave of the Chinese education system and they try to institute another style of learning into the western society. Consequently, there is. There are significant reasons why the Chinese education system should be learnt. Since China is a massive country with roughly 66.87 million students in 2009, the system, relying profoundly on exam-oriented education, seems like a logical and sensible way of developing endowed minds worthy of academic success. It worked without a shred of doubt. This system brought up some of the most unbeaten minds that ever existed in the field of studies, and the mean academic scores shoots through the roof.

The study takes a comparative study approach. This approach is defined as putting two or more education systems side by side in order to determine their socio-economic, cultural, political, ideology in a context (Brickman and Fraser, 1968). This paper takes a view of China’s higher education systems in order to find out the strengths higher education for policy formation in South Sudan because currently there is no evidence of one. The emphasis here is that in examining the policy strengths it is hoped that South Sudan would take a leaf from China’s experience in order to improve her higher education policy and practices particularly in areas such as accessibility, academic relevance, quality and staff capacity

China maybe one of largest suppliers of international students, but it has also been catching up to become a favored student destination, as per data from the Chinese Ministry of Education, released earlier this year. Among the nearly half a million foreign students, 15%, or over 66 thousand are enrolled in various forms of Masters and other post graduate ventures. In a bid to promote their educational institutions, the country has been investing in universities and higher education system, bringing up the quality of their universities to the level of premier world class institutes. To enhance their global standing, nine of the premier Chinese universities have also partnered with

Some of the Chinese will arrive at the top of the mountain you can see the shiny light around us; turn around, it is full of regret and grey. Everyone in China, including me, has been in touch with the examination-oriented education since we are born. We never think about whether our school life is colourful or inspiring and we never doubt the education system as all Chinese have experienced the same way. What is the role of education in our life? Is it supposed to stifle our imagination or creativity? Does it help us to cultivate a perfect personality? Do you want your generations to have a stressed school life like you? So, we need to change the education system in China.

Stress is something that everyone experiences. Pressure to excel at what you do, pressure to impress others, pressure to succeed in life: these are all stresses that we deal with on a daily basis. Our school-related stresses usually have to do with grades, our teachers, and our peers. But look halfway around the world, and you’ll find that our stresses seem miniscule compared to those of Chinese students.

Curriculum Provision in Senior High School in China and America and Comparisons and Contrasts between Them

The most prominent feature of China’s higher education over the past twenty years is the shift from elite education to massive expansion of students’ enrollment in colleges and universities (Morgan and Wu, 2011). The large scale expansion nationwide began in 1999 followed by the policy of Action Plan to Vitalize Education in the 21st Century (MoE, 1998). According to the statistics of Ministry of Education, 1.1 million of students were admitted to higher education in 1998, and this number got to 1.6 million in 1999, an increase of 48%. The expansion continued to increase in the subsequent years by an average of half million annually. By 2011, the number of newly enrolled students reached to 6.75 million (Yu, 2014). However, the amount of

Education is the process of learning and acquiring information. Education comprises all those experiences, which influence the whole life of a person. It is that procedure by which an individual naturally develops himself by his learning in a free and uncontrolled environment. Rajendra, K. Sharma (2002, pp. 1-2) pointed out that “Education is lifelong process, enriched by human experiences in life and is instrumental in developing creative abilities”. Education involves process of teaching and learning formally and informally.

To me education is a process in which one goes through to learn about the world and develop skills in which to utilize in future activities. These future activities may include work, but if we enter a jobless society, that isn’t necessarily the case.