Comparison Essay

Education now is something that is a way of life, just as eating is. However historically, education was one of the only ways to stand out in society, to be a ‘gentlemen’. Hsun Tzu and Frederick Douglas, though worlds apart, share many similarities on their view of education and what it should be like; at the same time, each text contains key elements that show how different their views can be and the reason behind it.

For instance, several advancements included: veterinary medicine (which allowed the domestication of animals to continue as they were being taken care of), complex irrigation systems and advancements in fertilizing crops; all which resulted in an agricultural surplus that allowed for specialization of labor to occur. During this time period an abundance of food meant more time for individuals to develop skills such as tool making, pottery, weave clothing, etc., which resulted in a more affluent lifestyle for certain individuals. To add on, advancements in transportation included new canals and better roadways which facilitated navigation and transportation by reducing the time it took to get to places. Moreover, numerous inventions also came about during the Han dynasty. Examples include things such as silk, paper (which enabled writing), gunpowder (which created a major characteristic of China’s culture; fireworks), the wheelbarrow, printed books, the compass (which facilitated navigation) and iron drills. All these technological advancements had a profound effect on China’s development as they sculpted China into the more developed country it’s today. Finally, the Han dynasty was also preeminent for the foundation of the civil service exam during the Pax Sinica, which was referred to as a period of peace. The civil service exam was a system that allowed anyone who

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

Description: Advanced Placement Chinese Language and Culture (commonly known as AP Chinese Language and Culture or AP Chinese) offers high school students an opportunity to earn credit for Chinese courses at the college level. Like other College Board programs, it is available to anyone worldwide who wishes to participate.

The author begins his article by giving several paragraphs of broad background into his life as a child at home and in school; He first starts off describing where he picked up his love for reading which is from his

He ordered the creation of common weights and measures, an improved system of writing and a law code. Shi Huangdi also tried to control the thoughts of his people by outlawing the ideas of Confucius and other important thing and instead required people to learn the philosophy of Qin scholars. The period of the Han Dynasty was a time of invention and science. The Han paper, iron casting, crop rotation, acupuncture as well as improvements in medicine, mathematics, building, agriculture, engineering, porcelain, and astronomy. During the Han’s rule that contact with the West through the Silk Road was first established, which enabled trade. Both dynasty’s left China with a rich culture, many new laws, practices, and inventions, which made China very prosperous.

Literacy is a vital part of all later learning. Because of this, the children will engage in hands on activities that relates to what they have read and give them opportunities to make up their own versions, as well as make up their own stories. They will have a large group story time and a partner reading time. An ample variety of books will be available at all times. Signs with words and pictures will be posted around the classroom showing, daily activities, objects that are used daily, and the placement of toys and

The Confucian Han China always tried to make things easier for everyone to get things done. This principle of helping others was applied to all aspects of Han life from politics to labour. In a result to their teachings slaves were not permitted, so even lower class labour force citizens had to have things easier for them. The resulted in technology for the farmers miners and other labour

His foolish acts get him into five hundred years of trouble at the hands of Tze-Yo-Tzuh, and the Monkey King must then rely on the trust of a stranger to lead him toward redemption. In another story, Danny is a popular athletic teenager whose life is amazing until his cousin Chin-Kee arrives from China. Chin-Kee is the epitome of Chinese stereotypes—eating cat gizzards, excelling in classes, speaking in broken English—and Danny wants to hide him away and pretend he does not exist. But Chin-Kee ends up going to school with Danny every day, ruining Danny’s reputation. American Born Chinese undergoes phases of identity crises that are coupled with some sort of mental or physical transformation. This is a great novel to explore the diversity of students and how different elements affect their culture. The big question of the unit also allows for students to recognize stereotypes in order to see the implications that can have on the people the labels are placed on and how some labels may be placed on them for having a particular quality, gender, race, etc. The ending and tone of the novel also will help students with recognizing the need for accepting others while seeing that every person should seek for his or her own

In each session, we had together I notice that he was improving on learning rhyming words pairs and he could point out words that rhyme together. He began to meet the needs of the overall goals which very limited for the short time we spend together in the four weeks. My learning was very clear for his age group. In each lesson, I would model activity and pounced each word for him so he could hear and see each rhyming words. “language modeling responses provide children with demonstrations of linguistic forms, content and uses” In the article Crating language Rich Preschool Classroom Environment by Laura M. Justice. This article highlight one of the strategies I use to work with Zachary.

With the economic benefit of getting an education virtually eliminated by the Cultural Revolution, the main characters, Wang Fu and Beanpole, sought moral and ethical meaning in education. Despite the seemingly purposelessness of obtaining an education, Wang Fu views Beanpole’s dictionary as a “sacred object” (163) and, after failing to win the dictionary from a bet with Beanpole, “copie[s] the dictionary every day...after school” (168). His motivation for copying “‘fifty thousand characters, a hundred characters a day [for] five hundred days” (168) is revealed to stem from filial piety as well as his desire to stick up for his father, Wang Qitong. Despite Wang Qitong’s immense strength, which makes him capable of carrying hundreds of pounds of rice for an entire team, he is bullied and harassed by his teammates for being mute and declares that “‘[he] is not as strong as Wang Fu, because Wang Fu can read and write” (176). Because of his adoration for his father as being “ones of the strongest men in the world” and his knowledge that “people in the team bully [his father]”, Wang Fu wants to do the right thing and “study and learn how to speak for [his father]” (176). Beanpole, upon being warned by Chen to teach according to the “unified teaching materials” (165), justifies his actions by saying that “[w]hen [the children] return to their teams, they won't have

The teacher provided the children to identify some letters in the print but does not provide opportunity for all the children to become engaged in the activity. The teacher did take some opportunity to draw the childrens attention to the sounds in words but the children were not motivated to complete the activity. The activity seemed rushed and the children seemed to think the activity was drawn out. Some other activities that were observed in the classroom seemed to promote letter recognition. Children were encouraged to identify letters on their mat and match them to their lower-case letters. Although the activity had a goal in mind there was no opportunity for the children to discuss and there was little opportunity for the activity to be extended. Another activity available was a drawing activity where the children were able to draw a picture of their favorite animalsThe teacher shared that they can use their mouths and lips to say each word to help them identify the beginning letter sounds. After discussing with the teacher the activities in the classroom she shared that she has been incorporating an abundance of fine motor skill activities and has found that language activities are provided but not on a consistent timeline. Home school projects were also discussed and she shared that activities were sent home monthly to encourage parents to have a much more hands on role in their childs literacy skills. Newsletters are also sent home monthly

[The students were placed in small reading groups, which were based on their level of reading. The classroom teachers tracked the students’ language and literacy on forms they created on their own. This helped to keep the students working at their own level, however; this has created many different reading groups for the teacher to manage as the classroom varied a great deal in levels.]

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

Local identity, language are taking away by the Chinese Government because of the changes of the education system. Even though the Chinese Government already take over the sovereignty of Hong Kong at 1997, people at Hong Kong do not think they are “Chinese” and that is the reason China do different ideological education to “teach” People in Hong Kong to be proud of being a Chinese. For the youngest generation, the Chinese Government decided to “education” their love toward China. In the book “primary student handbook of the basic law of Hong Kong” which is given to all primary students in all primary schools in Hong Kong, it mention that whenever people see the flag of the People 's Republic of China and hear the anthem, they should be proud to be a Chinese (10). Also it also mentioned that Hong Kong people should always cooperate with what the government said and support and maintain the authority of the Chief Executive (40&46). It have two main points that totally not accepted by Hong Kong people. First, half of the description on basic law in not true and the second part is that this book is really subjective because from the beginning of this book is just talking how great China is. The reader is targeted for 6-12 years old