Comparative Analysis on Education System Between France and the U.S.

Comparative Analysis on Education System between France and the U.S.

Throughout our lives, we acquire knowledge and as we continue to grow, so does our learning process. Everyday we learn something new, whether it be about ourselves or the way life seems to work. People strive to educate their children in order to prepare them in becoming a fruitful member of society. It starts off while being a young child; we obtain information through our parents or close relatives. However, as we grow up, we are put in educational institutions where our learning is thus obtained through professors and people whom we surround ourselves with. Education is one of the prime essential tools we need to get us to achieve our biggest goals in life. Although a nations education system is important and has influences on the nation itself, we tend to overlook it. With that being said, each country varies in their education systems and determinate economic growth, public goods provision, and its needs. In fact, it is almost impossible to analyze the impact of education on an international scale. For this matter, we will focus on the education systems of France and the U.S. Further, we will reveal several similarities of these two countries and clarify as well the countless differences in hopes of gaining some insight to what education means to each country and their scholars.

The secondary educational systems of France and the U.S. portray similarities in various ways. To start with, the structure of the school systems are set up in the same approach. For example, students’ ages 11-14 in the U.S. go to Junior High School and in France the age group 11-15 go to a Collège. As they move on to the next grade level, the students’ ages 14-18 attend High S...

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