The Pros And Cons Of Hong Kong Schooling

A country’s economic system decides its education system. Since China and Canada have different economic systems, China is developing on a diversified ownership economy, while Canada is running its economy by pure capitalism. It is obvious two different education systems run in those two countries respectively. And from my personal experience and some hearing from my friends, I found five main disadvantages of China’s education comparing with Canada’s education.

In the book, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? : Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World, published by John Wiley & Sons on August 14, 2014, the author, Yong Zhao, states that while China gets the highest test scores on the PISA exam, parents in China often send their children to western schools. In short Yong Zhao, a Chinese native who was born in Sichuan, claims that Western countries, Britain and America, should not try and adopt China’s education system for many reasons. I my opinion this book did not seem important to pre-service teachers, but after further thought and reading, I conclude that this book is valuable to not only pre-service teachers, but to anyone that is involved in education because it provides reasons why we should not try to adopt China’s education system.

The person that I will describe is Thomas. He is one of my friends and comes from a rich family in Hong Kong. He attempts to acquire U.S. citizenship because U.S has better welfare and environment, compared to Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a crowded city where people do not live along well with each others. Also, Hong Kong did not develop well in past few years because many riots happened and Chinese government strongly intervened in and destroyed Hong Kong's independent law's system. In contrast, U.S. has huge space for people to live, and the Americans in U.S are nice to get along with. Also, U.S has a perfect law's system as its Americans can get a fair treatment from it. For instance, the pesident Trump set a new policy to prohibit some minorities

Bruni writes, “Many kids at all grade levels are Bubble-Wrapped in a culture that praises effort nearly as much as it does accomplishment” (par. 24). By glorifying even average work, students are not motivated to try harder to achieve the desired outcome. As a result, American students do not rank as well as students from other countries in international tests. Giving students harder material and higher expectations will help them unlock their true potential. At first, students may find it difficult. However, after putting in more work to achieve results, they will feel more confident in their skills and will be able to compete with students around the

The current student spends a lot of time taking tests. A recent study suggests that “Starting in third grade, the typical U.S. student spends 20 to 25 hours each school year sitting for tests” (Dispatch) Of those twenty to twenty-five

These test scores do not reflect that American students are not as intelligent or as able to compete as Asian students are. Instead, they reflect a difference in attitudes that

Our Mandarin student body has said that they get nervous when taking tests because it has such a big impact on the students future. The students said that one test should not impact them on such a high level. As we asked, many of the students believed that the district was in charge of giving out standardized tests that Mandarin High is required to take. This information is useful to use because we have a better understanding of how the student body views the standardized tests.

The Chinese education system is the largest in the world and always wants the best higher education for the academically gifted. It takes twelve years to complete primary and secondary school. In 1986, an education law was passed stated that 9 years of education was mandatory for Chinese children (“China Education Center”). Only the brightest students are allowed to continue their education at a higher level. Because all Chinese students want the best education, it is difficult to get into high schools.

Looking overseas, there seems to be a huge academic gap when it relates to worldwide standardized testing. One country that is dominating the world in academics is Singapore. Singapore has realized how much education is valued and how important the teachers are in the classroom setting. However, there have been speculations in how their students have prepared for these exams. In

The Chinese government set up a wide system of primary schools. For the first time in all of China’s history the majority of the population received a complete basic education. Even though the government’s “Great Leap Forward” program didn’t put

Each country has its own kind of education, and education always plays an important role in affecting students’ life and study on many aspects. Having received ten years of education in China and two years of education in the U.S. I would like to compare and contrast a few significant aspects of these two different kinds of educations. Knowing that no two education systems are the same, the differences between American education and Chinese education allow countries to take the essence and discard the dross through learning from each other so as to improve their own current education systems.

As its restrictions of being "down to earth", I trust this is the motivation behind why such a variety of schools of Chinese nationalities had

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

There is a large diversity of people in Hong Kong because it continuously expands in economy and market. This of course, is a big advantage to our industry because although Precious Gems and Stones came in second to the Electronic equipment industries with a high dollar value of $82.4 billion and each export percentage share of 15.7% in terms of global shipments during 2014, the Precious Gems and Stones industry was the fastest growing among the top 10 export categories. It went up 161.1% for the 5-year period which started in 2010. It was also propelled by international sales of unwrought gold and unset diamonds. (worldstopexport.com)

In Hong Kong, cram schools are called tutorial schools. The small scale tutorial schools have been appeared in 50s-60s and the earliest large scale tutorial school spring up in 1972. The purposes of tutorial school are to improve students’ performance in some particular subjects like English and Mathematics but now it turns to teach students the techniques of answering questions in the examinations. From the figures by The Census and Statistics Department released a third of students from secondary school and primary school had applied tutorial class, and spent a total of $18.9 million a month. The essay will discuss the reason and impact of the issue from the philosophical perspective.