How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning By Alix Spiegel

Everyone has struggles. Many teenagers struggle with self-esteem, stress, bullying, body image, drinking, and smoking. Many adults struggle with marriage, jobs, money, drinking, smoking, health problems, and stress. There is not one person that has an easy life with no struggles because it is impossible. Having struggles teaches us life lessons.

One of the two central ideas of “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” is that fixed mind-sets can make an individual less eager to face challenges that would help them grow and improve on their skills. At the University of Hong Kong, Carol

In “The Trouble with Talent”, Kathy Seal, who frequently writes about children and education in magazines, wrote about the way of education in the U.S. which only focused on the value of inborn aptitude could breed children to become artful people and waste many of American children’s potential. At the beginning of this article, Seal told about an experiment of Jim Stigler, who was a UCLA psychologist, which tested the persistence of Japanese and American children by solving the math problem. While the American kids solved the problem for a short time and quickly gave up, the Japanese kids still kept on their work. Stigler stated that Asian education focused to

The challenges I go through on a daily basis is bulling from other students, being called names by my brother, myself not thinking positively, me not staying calm in situations, etc. The way I find strength to help me through my challenges is my mostly my parents, and my parents are, my mom Sue, and my dad

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 From his presentation of information and evidence to his use of an outdated study, Alix Spiegel leaves many holes in what could be an extraordinarily insightful piece.

One of the most important things that Americans teach me is I can win and fight for my own choices. I joined the mixed martial art club in my freshman year. Most people were stronger than me. About half of the new members quit by the end of the second week. But I chose to stay. I wanted to win the choice of getting involved and be notable. And the way of being notable was being powerful enough. When I had the same resources as they did, I could have a talk equally. Therefore I need to try hard over and over again so that I could have the choice to be notable. Similarly, in academic study, only when I fight to get better grades and show my personality, I can get a chance to be accepted by people who do better than me. It’s all about whether I fight for my choice. Even there are some prejudices on me, if I keep fighting and trying and connecting more and more people, I can use myself to convince them that “no, you guys are wrong”. And that is the way I prove my value. Therefore, my power comes from adversity, the more severe the situation around me is, the more power I can generate. I want to

Everyone faces struggles in their life. Some allow those struggles to help build them as a person, others let those struggles tear them down. For me, I allowed my struggles to help me develop academically and personally. Without struggle there is no progress.

Struggling is a natural occurrence in everyday life. Take Salva Dut from A Long Walk to Water as an example. At the early age of eleven, he was separated from his family during a school shooting, later leading over fifteen hundred young boys across the Southern Sudan desert as teenager. In the documentary On the Way to School, a prime example would be young Jackson Saikong. Every school day, he would have to lead his sister on a nine mile journey, racing past aggressive elephants at only the age of ten. From Linda Sue Park’s A Long Walk to Water to the documentary On the Way to School, many of the characters featured show strong motivation toward their struggle, not wanting it to be meaningless any longer, thus finding their purpose through their goal.

In the feature article “Brainology”, the author, Carol Dweck explains that there are consequences of praising children for their work, they is also different types of mindsets that enable a person’s development. She focuses on two types of mindsets. The first mindset is fixed where a person believes that if she or he is smart, they don’t need to put effort to be successful. The author explains on page 3 of the article that sometimes society encourages this mindset by using words such as smart , intelligent which sometimes creates confidence , however, when the assignment gets difficult then a fixed mindset person loses confidence so they stop working hard to complete the task. The second mindset is when a person believes that working hard to

They avoid challenges, fearful that they won’t look smart.” This evidence shows us once people fail in something they decide to give up, thinking they aren't smart so why should they try. They just have to figure out what they are struggling with and keep trying until they get it so next time they don’t fail. Giving up won’t get you anywhere. We are all humans. Realizing that it's okay to make a mistake is only part of the battle to that ultimate goal. Learning and moving forward comes from doing something wrong and being told how to do it right but that doesn’t give us any right why we should give up. There's times when it's okay to give up but get back up and retry it don’t let that affect you but you can accomplish it!

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. Napoleon Hill. The one who does not know the struggle of life is either an immature soul or a soul who has risen above the life of this world. The object of a human being in this world is to attain to the perfection of humanity, and therefore it is necessary that man should go through what we call the struggle of life. Insert thesis

The learning perspective what is it? This is the study of how exactly a person is effected through what they learn on a daily basis. Through family, their surroundings and behavior. The people who believe this line of thinking are called behaviorists. Many people look at the learning perspective in a suspiciouse manner not believeing or trusting any of the experiments. But there are many contributions and many limitations of the learning perspective.

“The Science of Raising Courageous Kids” (Martin Brokenleg 2003), is a research based article that discusses the history of how children were viewed and treated by older civilizations and how the view has shifted to children as Brokenleg and Bockern (2003) stated, “sacred beings” and “gifts of the Gods” (p.22). Then, Brokenleg discusses what children need, act, feel, and who they are as a person- the main argument here. Children should be viewed as people of society; they are just in the learning stages of basic norms and human interaction. Lastly, the article discusses the importance of implementing these theories into the classroom in order to create courage kids.

By trying to see someone else’s culture through their eyes I need to be curious and introspective. Teachers that are culturally responsive strive to learn about themselves, their culture, and how their beliefs and experiences influence their perceptions and interactions with their students (Rosenberg, Westling, & McLeskey, 2011). I would like to work toward all of my students gaining resilience within my classroom. According to Rosenberg, Westling, & McLeskey, the real goal of helping students is to develop their capacity to be resilient. This will help students to succeed despite adverse circumstances and challenges (pg. 65).

In order to push through these struggles during drilling or practicing, harsh punishments may need to be put in place. The need for these punishments allows Chinese parents to get away with “...things that would seem unimaginable - even legally actionable - to Westerners” (Chua). Amy Chua then uses her own experiences to show how harsh the punishments may seem, but in the end the child grows from them. The western parent's strategy toward reprimanding is to do so nicely, in the best attempt not to damage their child's self esteem.