The difference and contrast between Chinese and western education is not a simple topic that can be generalized, it involves cultural background, educational concept, educational system and other issues. Sometimes, cartoons are more intuitive and intriguing than words. A picture can express complex things very simply.
Therefore, the booklet specially prepared the following 24 comparative illustrations of Chinese and Western education.
Please look at the illustration below. Where is the gap?
The left picture represents China, and the right picture represents western countries.
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Education in China mostly educates children with a strong purpose, such as changing their destiny. Western-style education mostly encourages children to develop their hobbies, so that children have more possibilities and integrate into society more quickly and confidently.
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Chinese-style education mostly adopts repressive or critical education, and always grasps the shortcomings of children (children begin to hate learning in criticism). Western-style education takes the form of development or encouragement, and is good at discovering children's advantages (children begin to grow rapidly with encouragement).
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Chinese education is mostly a bucket of water, and children may lose their independent thinking ability because of the consistent spoon-feeding teaching. Most western-style education will light a fire to stimulate students' desire for learning and slowly cultivate students' independent thinking ability.
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Chinese-style education may not be spoken, but most of them expect their children and their daughters to succeed and become the capital of glorifying their ancestors in the future. In western education, grades are not what they care about most. Most of them choose to let their children's dreams fly, study according to their own interests, and return education to education itself.
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China Education, a typical class cadre style, is good at political relations between teachers and students, such as flattery and petty bureaucracy. Western-style education tends to cultivate people's sense of responsibility, such as helping others and making them bear more social responsibilities in the future.
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Chinese education, the final result of learning, is mostly for better work and life. Western-style education, even for work, knows that the ultimate goal is to enjoy life better. The starting point and emphasis are different, and the result orientation and behavior will be different.
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In education in China, most parents expect their children to succeed in their future career and earn more money after receiving education. In western education, parents are most concerned about whether their children will grow up after education. Growth is more important than success.
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In China education, teachers mostly let children pay attention to every day at their feet, and their eyes are limited to the present and the present. In western education, most teachers will guide children to pay attention to the infinite tomorrow and look to the future. Life should have a plan. Only by paying attention to the future in advance can we know how to go now.
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Chinese-style education, because there are too many spoon-feeding methods, is good at teaching according to textbooks, which leads to the knowledge that is not necessarily useful. Western-style education is good at cultivating the ability of lifelong benefit. Even if you leave school and enter the society, you can confidently cope with all kinds of situations.
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Chinese-style education, due to different systems, is mostly to cultivate memory ability. Western-style education is mostly to cultivate information processing ability, and human brain is always limited, especially in the era of information explosion. The ability to search information is far more important than memory.
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In Chinese-style education, teachers mostly play the role of preaching, teaching and dispelling doubts. There seems to be no problem, but there is not much interaction with students, only standard answers are given. In western-style education, most teachers will teach students in accordance with their aptitude according to their different personalities and stimulate their independent thinking ability.
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In Chinese-style education, parents are more concerned about the enrollment rate of the school, rather than health education or abnormal education. Western-style education pays more attention to teachers and courses, whether there are scholarships, whether there is racial discrimination and so on.
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In China education, teachers will assign a lot of homework and do problems repeatedly to consolidate knowledge. Western-style education, the amount of homework is not necessarily large, but we must deeply understand the thinking of solving problems and encourage students to learn teamwork.
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Chinese-style education is mostly for the purpose of utility, for example, for various textual research, you may not be interested in continuing after the exam. Western-style education is more about encouraging students to explore their own possibilities and cultivate various abilities. The ability outside the classroom is an important ability for you to move smoothly into society and life.
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Chinese education is to ensure that the physical fitness test can reach the standard. Western-style education aims at cultivating students' sports habits. A healthy body is the basic condition for future work. The more elite people, the more time they will spend exercising.
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In Chinese-style education, students mostly obey or listen to teachers, rarely express their opinions, and even accept teachers' questions. Western education mostly encourages students to challenge the authority of teachers, because there is no absolute standard answer in this world.
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Chinese education has only standard answers. Long-term education like this can easily lead to a fixed mode of thinking. There is no absolute standard answer to western education. It may be the same problem, but there are different solutions.
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In education in China, teachers usually take students to see problems, and what they get is basically a summary or viewpoint. In western-style education, teachers basically don't give answers, but usually ask questions for students to think for themselves, so that they can get more inspiration.
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Chinese-style education mostly seems to be for a certain performance task, or to add points to your resume. Western-style education mostly shows love with heartfelt actions, so that people in need can feel true love. Motivation is more important than behavior.
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Chinese-style education, mostly led by teachers, seems to have turned into a criticism meeting, and teachers began to name and criticize whose children were disobedient, naughty and so on. Western-style education is dominated by students, who personally show their gains and shortcomings to their parents and teachers. Parents should listen to their children's voices more.
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Chinese-style education, taking advantage of children's holidays, quickly make up lessons, play chess and paint, for fear of being left behind by others. When the holiday comes, we should make good use of western education, let children go to work, travel and start various experiences, so that children can adapt to society as soon as possible.
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Most of the education in China is to teach children to walk in the comfort zone for fear of suffering too much. Western-style education mostly encourages children to go out of their comfort zone and take risks bravely. Comfort will only make people degenerate, and adventure will make people grow.
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Chinese education mostly pursues personal honor and cares more about winning or losing. Western-style education advocates team honor more, and no one wins by himself. Because there is always the support of family or friends, you have persisted until now.
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Chinese-style education, more like a consumption relationship, pays for school, gets a diploma as soon as possible, and enters the society. Western education is more like an alliance. Although it is also to pay tuition fees, the common goal is to make children grow up healthily. Only in this way can children know themselves better and face the future better.
After reading the above comparison, Xiao Juan thinks that Chinese and western education have their own characteristics and strengths. We should stand on the standpoint of self-transcendence, look back at the shortcomings of traditional education in China, learn from the essence of western education, change educational ideas and concepts, and carry out in-depth educational reform, so as to better adapt to the trend of world education development and cultivate more talents in line with China's modernization.