Alix Spiegel Struggle For Smarts Summary

AOW #4 The general argument made by Alix Spiegel in his work, Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning, is that the Asian culture has a better education system than the United States . More specifically, Alix Spiegel argues that Japanese students compared to American students work harder on a problem without giving up. As well as how the two different cultures apply themselves in many ways when they are struggling. Alix Spiegel writes, “ So the focus is on the process of persisting through it despite the challenges, not giving up, and that’s what leads to success.” In conclusion, Alix Spiegel belief is that American children and society could take some tips from different cultures, and how struggling is

Everyone has their own learning styles that help them be successful. More specifically, I believe that when Stigler says “And I just think that especially in schools, we don’t create enough of those experiences, and then we don’t point them out clearly enough.” Meaning how teachers should give students challenging problems so they can struggle and work through it. Knowing that they did not give up and were able to accomplish it. Having students struggle may help them believe that they can get through anything. In 1979, Jim Stigler a graduate student that studied at the University of Michigan. Went to Japan to take a look at all the differences in the cultures. As Stigler sits in the back of a fourth-grade math class and watches a teacher not pick out the best kid in the class, but watches as the teacher has a student that is struggling and brings them up to the board to see how they work on the problem. Teachers maybe be able to seek what they are doing wrong and help them understand and work out the problem. Instead of having a student who just goes up there and does the problem and then just goes and sits