Education in China
Education in China is growing. Over the past years Chinas education
system has been attempting, and been successful in improving the
education in China. China for many years did not put much emphasis on
education. China was more traditional, meaning they were more
interested in farming and working. Prior the 1840 education in China
was only for the elite, the high class. The main purpose of education
was to train what China called “gentlemen” or high officials. This is
the time of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher who introduced China to
the Royal Examination System, which is used to select imperial
officers. Chinas education was very rigid and it focused highly on
technology thus China has a high rate of illiteracy. Early Chinese
students were not very well rounded; they were limited in what they
could study. For example a student of science would not know much
about Humanities, and vice versa, a student of Humanities would not
know much about science. This approach of learning narrowed the range
of knowledge that a Chinese student might have. This would limit the
students thinking and restrict their future development. When a
student is limited in what he of she can do then that will
dramatically decrease the number of jobs that they have to chose
from.
American education is a lot different than the early Chinese
education. In America, school is for developing critical thinking
skills. American education teaches students to apply what they learn
in the class to the outside world. They teach students to think
outside of the box and how to think deep and to apply ...
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...ing face”; this means that the students would rather
not know the answer than to ask a “dumb” question. Teachers don’t
encourage questions during class and don’t allow much debate.
There are both strengths and weaknesses to both Chinese and American
education methods. Chinese students study hard and often. They are
viewing school as a privilege and a competition while most Americans
view school as boring and tiresome. While Americans struggle with
memorization and discipline, they are strong in critical thinking.
American students are more rounded and able to apply what they have
learned too many different things, whereas the Chinese are somewhat
limited. I would have to say that all in all both systems have their
positives and their negatives but as the years progress, improvement
in each country will also.
Have you ever wondered how life must have been for teenagers in China during the late 1960s? Most teenagers were inspired to fight in the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a movement in 1966. Mao Zedong motivated millions of chinese youths to challenge authority in order to depart from socialism. To further control the actions and ideas of the people in China, a group of youths called the “Red Guards” followed Mao’s beliefs and humiliated non-believers. These adolescents joined the cause because they wanted to have a better economic status and have power over authorities. The Red Guards experienced what it is was like to be an elder by inflicting violence on others. In an attempt to advance China’s economic and political status in the world, Mao Zedong created a revolution to bring an end to the old customs, but in the process his Red Guard caused violence and created a generation of uneducated Chinese youths.
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“While there is significant variation across regions, within the cities and within the rural areas, the most significant inequality is between the urban and the rural” (Saich, 2011:316).
The first period of Chinese compulsory education (between 1986 and 2007) had a big problem-----it was not free. In 1986, China passed the Law on Compulsory Education of the People 's Republic of China, which symbols that China began to execute compulsory education. However, at the beginning, the compulsory education is “compulsory education with Chinese characteristics”, (Xiao, 2012, 1) which means that the compulsory education is just compulsory and the governments didn’t pay the tuition. It is a big problem. People in rich cities didn’t have too much trouble because they had money. But the tuition was a big burden for families in poor villages or towns. A survey of a village in Hunan in 2001 referred that the government only paid 22.3% of the tuition for children in compulsory education, which means children’ parents needed to pay another 77.7% tuition.
China is a culturally vibrant country, full of unique costumes and traditions, religions, accustomed social organizations, beautiful arts and literature, and interesting language that make up its diverse culture. It’s a beautiful country to venture and explore getting a taste of their delicious traditional foods and getting to know their people.
The very first important development for a successful country is to have a respectable education system for those who need it from the first day they are born into the world. We have to instill what we want in our people to reflect how we want our to development to appear. In china their school system has more of a strict structure for example, at Harbin Number One High School; students begin school at 7:00 a.m., and remain until 8:20 p.m. The seniors, preparing for their final examinations, stay later, even until 10:00 at night.(Rybak) In a Chinese school the day are much longer than an American school day. This means that Chinese student spend a lot more time in school which bring us to conclusion that Chinese are more advantaged then the American student in long run. This prepares them for college or even the young adult can be bio-lingual. Most American student usually attends school for seven hours each weekday and may forget what they have learned because it in instilled into the young adults’ heads like the Chinese do with their students.