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1、Western students enjoy a seemingly relaxed educationalexperience.This,however,is not the case for studentsin Asia,who face crushing workloads and are often verydisciplined.In the first part of her Globalist.?The decision is partly based on aninability orunwillingness to spend thousands of dollars in

2、tuition fees,especially given the suspicion that localschools are better anyway.After all,what more couldone want from a basic education than a strong groundingin language,math and science,all subjects in whichAsian schools famously excel.Our main concern is theability of our son and indeed the whol

3、e family to adapt to the strict diligence that is expected ofthe Chinese.Apprehension increases when talking tolocal friends.?Chinahasalonghistoryofstandardizedtests,beginning with the ancient imperial exams initiatedduring the Sui Chen is at the top of the class at theShanghai foreign language scho

4、ol,one of the citysbest middle schools.Already near fluent in English,she is studying German and ranks among the highest inher grade in physics.Her goal is to get a fullscholarship to Harvard to study biochemistry.It is notonly Western expatriates that grow anxious when hearingabout students like Sh

5、elly.?Throughout England,politicians,parents and punditsworry that the industriousness and discipline of kidsin the East are leaving relatively relaxed Westernerstrailingbehind.Thoughthereissomedebatesurrounding the statistics,it is widely believed thatNorthAmericaisfailingtoproducesufficientgraduat

6、es in sciences and less controversy attendsthe observation that math scores throughout the Westrank well below those of most Asian countries.As aresult,there is a deepening consensus that,in orderto maintain its competitive edge,?Chinese students are taught that all questions have butone right answe

7、r and there is little room for Americaneducation needs to move away from an emphasis on fun,flexibility and individual learning,it has to shifttowardsamorestrict,disciplinedteachingenvironment that math and science,in particular,seemto shift can be discerned even in Canada,where thereare no college

8、entrance exams,and where,standardizedtesting,memorization and rote learning have long beenfrowned upon.?Nevertheless,there is a mounting chorus complainingthat the prominence given to creativity cheats studentsoutofaproperlikescienceteacherSumitraRajagopalan are entreating Canadian educators to adop

9、ta more Asian pedagogical philosophy based on“constantrepetition,recitation,grilling and drilling”.Inthe United States,the rise of China and India isputting even more emphasis on the demand for educationreform.?Tougher standards,New policies such as No Child LeftBehindhaveledtoanincreasedstressonsta

10、ndardized testing.?In the 2006 State of the Union address,President GeorgeW.BushmentionedthethreatofAsiasgiantsspecificallywhenintroducinghis“CompetitiveInitiative”,a program that promises substantialfunds for the teaching of basic math and science.?But in an ironic twist,there is an increasing desi

11、reto make education more England in China.Many now agreethat the lack of creativity in Chinas educationsystem will soon prove a major stumbling block in thecountrys continuing development.?Governmentandbusinessleadersworryaboutaderivative,manufacturing-basedeconomy,whichisunabletoinnovatecoretechnol

12、ogy,lacksmajorresearch and development projects and lags farbehind in creative sectors like marketing and design.?A lack of flexibility and inability of individuals totake the initiative affects the entire service sector,paralyzing employees at every level.Arriving late forthe set breakfast at a fiv

13、e-star hotel in Chengdu,forexample,I,along with a group of other foreigners,found that the coffee had run out.Our request for morethrew the staff into was not until a series of meetingshadbeenheldandpermissionsoughtfromseniormanagement that a fresh pot could be even trivialproblems up the management

14、 hierarchy in this way issimply impossible in a sophisticated post-industrialsociety.?Chinahasimplementedasetofreformsknownas“quality education”.This policy,which aims to teachcreativity and emphasize character development,hasresulted in certain concrete shifts including changesto textbooks,an incre

15、ased emphasis on oral skills inlanguage learning and various attempts to getteachers to encourage student participation.?Most Chinese,however,are skeptical that anythingother than surface transformation is taking place.Asthey are quick to point out,the underlying issue an education system rooted in

16、standardized tests hasyet to be altered.?Chinese students achieve near perfect scores on Westernstandardized exams.But when go abroad,they findthemselves ill prepared for the education.?Today,national tests determine which elementary,highschool and university a student will attend.They arestill the

17、single most important factor in decidingones general career path.?The weight given to testing is regularly criticizedthroughout Chinese society.Newspapers and magazinescommonly report on the extreme pressure of the generalexams.?Stories range from concern over the suicide rate tobizarre anecdotes li

18、ke the one about girls in Guangdongprovince who are said to have bought up mass quantitiesof contraceptive pills and then taken them during thetest period in the hope of warding off the ill effectsof their menstrual these concerns,there is littlereal impetus for the testing system to change.In China

19、,standardized tests are seen as the only way to guaranteemeritocracy and ensure fairness.The Canadian methodof granting university admission on the basis ofinterviews and grade point averages is seen as far tooChina,many believe that in a system like this the bestschools,universities and jobs would

20、go only to thosewiththerightguanxii(connections).Chinasemphasisonmemorizationandrotelearninghassignificant consequences.Students are taught that allquestions have but one right answer and there is littleroom for debate and original thought.?Subjects like history and politics are focused solelyon dat

21、es and names.Even the Chinese language exam,which requires students to write essays,allocatesgrades according to how well one can quote classicaltexts and idioms.?Passing trivial problems up the management hierarchyissimplyimpossibleinasophisticatedpost-industrial society.?As a result,Chinese studen

22、ts develop what appears tomany Westerners as a shocking capacity for memorization.Many are able to recite entire articles and there arestories of some who are capable of committing the entiredictionary to memory.?Chinese students thus regularly achieve near-perfectscores on the standardized exams of

23、 Europe and England.when they go abroad many of these students find theyareill-preparedforWesterneducation.Chinesestudents with phenomenal TOEFL(Test of English as aForeign Language)scores are often incapable of takingpart in simple English conversation.?At least one graduate school in one of Englan

24、ds mostelite universities has now become wary of acceptingstudents from China for this skills such as in-classparticipation,seminar presentations and individualresearchprojects,commonpracticeinelementaryschools in North America,are largely unheard of in theChinese classroom even in most universities

25、.?National tests determine which school a student willattend.They are the most important factor in decidingones career path.?Moreover,the stress on original thinking and strictrules regarding plagiarism often seem baffling tostudents from China.An American teacher working inYunnan province tells of

26、encountering this culturaldivide when two students handed in the exact same essayfor an in-class exam.Because of diffrent traditions and cultures,there aremany diffrences between Chinese education and Britisheducation.Firstly,the Chinese education is nine yearcompulsory education.Most of schools are

27、 public thetutions come from the the British education is alsocompulsory the school system is two-track systemwhich included the public school and the private thetutions are free in the public school while those comefrom the students parents in the private school.Secondly,the Chinese schools only ha

28、ve somesubjects,such asChinese,maths,English,history,physics and soChinese students must study these subjects every theymust work hard that they hardly have spare inBritain,the students have chances to choose an electivecource to expand their knowledge and they have muchmore spare time to play than

29、Chinese students.Finally,the Chinese educational system is very ofstudents have to pass the college entrance then theycan go to college to study a in Britain,the studentshave many choices to are many technology body canenter without certisfication and limeted age.Although there are many differences between theChinese educantion and the British education,they havesome adventages and disadventages in some aspects.