U.S and Greece: Differences and Similarities in Education
There are many differences and similarities in education in Greece and
The United States of America today. The differences, which there are many of,
are focused on the different ideas of what is important in our different
countries. The similarities are basic in an education and to have a successful
country which both do have to be the same.
Greece and the U.S. have only four major similarities which are common
to a good education. First, both have students that go to school until the age
of 18 with the exception of college now. Second, both countries make students
learn about music, have physical training, and learn to read and write. Later
on in the Greek society, poor and rich students all went to school and all men
soon learned to read and write.
There are many differences in the two different civilizations and
probably due to the difference of time. There are about ten major differences
between the two counties. First, the poor looked as an extra child in the
family, and extra child to feed and give an education so could be abandoned or
not given an education. The rich also didn't want to spend the money on the
child's education and would be very selfish. Girls stayed home to cook, weave,
do art, and to learn to run the house because of the male dominated culture.
Only the boys went to school, and at first the rich boys only went to school.
Only men learned to read and write. All schools were private schools and
family's would have to pay the school expenses for the education. They believed
music was necessary and they had a high value on physical fitness which the U.S.
doesn't. For people who could not afford school they would train in the city to
be a soldier.
The schools in Greece and in The United States of America both have a
of school is to get a job to help with family expenses. Ironically, without an education even
Otherwise, why now the parents spend a lot of money to send their children to a good school to study, because the school education environment to the children’s influence is very important. When Wes A moved to Bronx, his mother had made a decision to send her children to private school after her seeing how poor the public school system had become, so she worked multiple jobs to manage the cost and relied on her parents to take care the children before and after school while at work. “My mother decided soon after our move to the Bronx that I was not going to public school. She wasn’t a snob, she was scared.”(47) Because she knew, if the children are growth of a bad education environment, the children of the world to know nature will be distorted. Without a good education, there is also no habits; No good sense, and also there will be some bad behavior. Today, the rate of crime is high; almost all can find the root cause of their growth environment. Maybe the lack of discipline, discouraged by mistake friends or too much stress, but all shows the importance of good education environment for children to grow
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cook for the family i.e. to be the housewife. It was seen that a women
school than a wealthy kid. With money, all the rich student needs to do is
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