• When it comes to education, western parents think that happy education is of most importance. On one side, parents often discuss problems with their children. On the other side, their children are also willing to talk to their parents when they meet difficulties. The research of psychology shows that psychological health is very important for the children’s success. • While in China, parents show their concern to their children basically on physiological needs, they concern little to the children’s psychological needs. In a considerable degree, this kind of education results in the children’s low psychological bear ability and the children can not afford the stress in his life. • From these comparisons, we can see the contrast between western and Chinese education. There are significant differences. What western parents care is that Chinese parents ignore. Western parents teach child to climb from where he falls, correct what has been done wrong by himself, encourage their children to be a great dreamer and become winners in their mind. Chinese parents may learn from them.
It treats students as products, hoping that good production will be delivered in the production line instead of defective ones. It is not willing to be faced up to the regularity that learning can make mistakes. This education way will lead to student lack of creative thinking. • In western country, the teachers encourage students the freedom of thoughts and being responsible for their words and deeds. Teachers usually play the role of guiding. As in classroom, they will discuss the problems that students meet during their experiments like friends. In China, it is taken for granted that the student listen to the teachers and take notes in the classroom. Never will the students doubt the correctness of the answers on the textbooks or that the teachers have given them.
• Family Education
• Western parents pay much attention to children’s own exercise. Instead of designing the future for their children, they value the free development of children and try their best to make them develop into a social person that can adapt to various kinds of environment and have the ability to survive in this severe society. They hope that through their family education, their children can develop a pioneering spirit and be able to rely on themselves. • Many Chinese parents are over ambitious. They often ask their children to do whatever they want. However in many cases, their children can not reach what their parents want because their parents’ high demand is beyond their actual level. What the parents care most is study of the children. Most of them believe that if study well, everything is well. In comparison, the ability of live independently, mental health and social adaptation are ignored.
The Differences between Chinese Education and Western Education The Comparison of College Education between China and US
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Nowadays, everon to education. Result from the idea that science and technology make the country stronger, every government invests a large deal of money on education, so does Chinese government. But with the fast development of economic, Chinese education system is still incomplete compared with western education system. The research of the differences between Chinese education and western education is beneficial for China to develop a better education system.
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Social Environmental Influence
What Chinese lack most is the responsibility education. In the United States, it is common to see an adult who is doing something wrong or has some bad behaviors educates a child while the child is not the adult’s own kid. The Americans treat every child as their own child, and it is their responsibility to educate the child. In England, the power of a middle-aged woman is inevitable. They are always in the supervision of the behavior of young consciously, just as the police general. They think it is their duty to observe the children in their country. These two nations have already put the responsibility of educating the next generation to every citizen. Every citizen also shows his responsibility for he future of the country in caring about the children. While in China, who will treat educating the next generation as his own responsibility? If one sees an unknown child who is doing something wrong, will he go and educate him? It is very common in China that adults tend to show indifferent with unknown children. What if we change our mind and learn to care others?