A part of western education emphasizes the teaching of students' independent

thinking and the way of expressing themselves. Many factual information is found in

the book, so the teacher focuses on how to help the students interpret the content

in a more meaningful way. As the Greek philosopher Socrates, American teachers

and students will continue to ask questions to force you to state your view, and

others openly share. Based on these differences, Chinese students to the United

States at the beginning of the school will have a great impact, see the American

students to ask questions or answer, and even to the challenge of the professor, will

feel uncomfortable, think these students how to be so arrogant and disrespect,

students should absolutely comply with the authority of the professor is. Moreover,

my English is so poor, why should I make a fool? With the Americans and other

countries' friends. Participate in the school club, sports organizations, students will,

and so can promote social life. In the local community, you can join a number of

service organizations and volunteer organizations, the reception family, etc..

Although there are academic pressures, but a lot of benefits to participate in

extra-curricular activities, but also the way to lift the pressure.

The creative thinking in the process of American school more attention to practice

and practice. This is an important distinction between domestic education and

Western education. Domestic students tend to have amazing memory capability

and good mathematical foundation, which is Chinese students to achieve success in

the exam oriented education, but higher education in the United States more

require students to participation, practice and creation, many courses are arranged

a case study and the discussion of time and students of case analysis and

statements with students as the center of teaching activities. The teacher to the

students face a very short time, about students with learning time is about 30%.

The rest of the time depends on the students themselves, the library access to

information, the students to discuss each other, to learn to understand the relevant

knowledge. In the process of participation and practice, students self-learning and

their ability to solve the problem has been improved. Because they change from

passive learning to active learning attitude, learning effect is different, there are

different.

American education is the combination of the universal and the elite education,

you can let the students choose to be when civilians or do the elite". Own choose

"elite" road and need to work hard and struggle, to choice of civilian road walk,

accepts the popularization education, flat faint, madding crowd to accept society

needed to survive the basic knowledge education. This is why a lot of knowledge

teaching. Only to a point. Such education is the education of the mass of the

populace. Chinese students have no choice in this form of society, the United States

is different, choose the "elite" of the road, a few people, as long as the hard work,

serious study, and strive to "essence" "deep", also can realize their "elite"

education.

西方教育的一部份强调的是教导学生独立思考及各种自我表达的方式。很多事实资讯在书中就找得到，因此老师着重的是如何帮助学生以更有意义的方式来诠释课程内容。一如希腊哲人苏格拉底，美国的老师和同学会不断发问逼你陈述你的看法，与别人公开分享。基于这些差异，中国学生初到美国上课会有很大的冲击，看到美国学生不停发问或回答，甚至要向教授挑战的意味，会感到很不自在，认为这些学生怎么如此自大和不敬，学生应该绝对遵从教授的权威才是。再者，我的英文这么差，为何要我当众出丑呢? 与美国人及其他国家的学生交友。参加学校俱乐部、运动组织、学生会等都可促进社交生活。在当地社会方面，你可加入一些服务组织及义工组织、接待家庭等。虽然有学业压力，但参与课外活动益处多多，也是解除压力的方式。

美国学校更看重实践以及实践过程中的创造性思维。这也是国内教育与西方教育的重要区别。国内的学生往往有惊人的记忆能力和良好的数学基础，这也是中国学生能在应试教育中取得佳绩的原因，但是美国的高等教育更多地要求学生去参与、实践、创造，许多课程都安排有案例学习与讨论的时间以及学生进行案例分析与陈述等以学生为中心的教学活动。老师对学生的面授时间很短，大约为学生所用学习时间的30%左右。其余时间要靠学生自学、到图书馆查阅资料、同学之间相互讨论，才能学懂有关的知识。在参与和实践的过程中，学生自学和自己解决问题的能力得到了提高。由于他们变被动的学习为主动的学习，态度不同，学习的效果就有天壤之别。

美国教育是普及与精英相结合的教育，可以让学生自己选择是当平民还是做“精英”。自己选择走“精英”道路的，需要艰苦奋斗；选择走平民道路的，接受普及教育，平平淡淡、与世无争地接受社会生存必需的基本知识的教育。这就是为什么很多知识的教学只是点到为止而已。这样的教育是大众化的平民化的教育。中国学生在这种社会形态下没有选择的余地，美国学生则不同，选择走“精英”道路的少数人，只要艰苦努力、认真学习，力求“精”“深”，同样也能实现自己的“精英”教育。

我们都知道，中美两国在教育理念以及教育制度都有着不同程度上的差异，从中美学生个性上看，中国的学生都很聪明也很勤奋，特别讲究纪律性，在学习上非常努力，对学习很认真，总会充分利用时间去读书，所以，中国的学生基础知识扎实，基本技能训练熟练，但是创新和实践能力可能有所欠缺。而美国的学生比较贪玩，他们会利用更多的课外时间在体育运动、电子竞技、舞蹈艺术、科技实验等活动上，所以，他们的创新和实践能力较强，但基础知识和基本技能的训练还有待提升。

首先两个国家之间的教育目的及方法不同。在中国：学校事先给学生做出细致繁琐的各种规定，该学什么，学多少，什么时候学，该怎么学，老师善于给学生一个总结，把学生教到无问题就好。中国的学生视学习为功利，习惯于应付，他们认为学习是家长、老师的事情，是为升官发财找工作而学，因而学得被动、教条、无奈。教育重点在于所谓的“双基”，重在练“基本功”，不重视对学生创造力和思维能力的培养。在美国：学生被告诉学习是自己的事，让学生自己去想，想学什么东西，因而学生一般学得主动、灵活、高兴。老师善于给学生一个启发，把学生教到能不断提出新问题。美国的课堂鼓励自由发言，如果提