From 2065438+2009 1 month, I was invited to give a lecture at Taichung Primary School English Training Camp. The headmaster is a student of my previous innovative thinking class in Normal University, and he is also a person with great ideas and creativity. We met face to face for the first time in the real world. We have met for a long time and had a good chat.
All the teachers sat in the audience during the whole day's study. The main content is the application of English picture books in education and how to make children fall in love with Chinese and English reading. However, the most interesting thing should be the last class: "the difference between eastern and western education and the outcome"! I showed the BBC documentary, which made many teachers sitting in the back stand up and enjoy it with great curiosity.
There were some films in the morning class, but no one stood up. It can be seen that Mr. Tai Sheng is very interested in the educational differences between the East and the West.
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The British found that their children were behind Shanghai, Singapore, Seoul and other Asian cities (presumably also behind Taipei) in PISA scores in mathematics, reading and science, so they began to learn from the East to see why they were behind. This documentary used to be available in full on the Internet, but now only a few paragraphs can be found. (Interested parents and teachers can look at ~~bit.ly/2RpPu3O? )
Which education is the best, the East or the West? In fact, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Oriental children have high academic performance. According to the headmaster in the British BBC documentary, because the whole family tried their best to make their children get ahead, they studied in class for more than 12 hours every day, so they got good grades. This is the result of hard work, not that children are particularly excellent or oriental education is particularly excellent!
In fact, China's teacher went to a junior high school in England to teach for a month. Their feelings are: British children are smart enough, but their motivation to learn is not strong enough, they are sloppy in class, love to ask questions and have no discipline! If the welfare system in Britain is abolished, so that they have a sense of crisis, they will not believe that these children can relax and may work harder than those in the East!
I have friends who send their children to the United States and Britain in order to make them study less hard. My father worked hard to make money in Taiwan Province Province, and my mother took her children to school. However, I found that life abroad was too comfortable, so I bought a lot of textbooks from Taiwan Province Province. I want my children not to be too comfortable. Think about how hard the students in Taiwan Province Province have worked!
This is a helpless and funny contradiction: on the one hand, I am afraid that my children will be under too much pressure to go to school, but when I go abroad, I am afraid that my children will not keep up with the progress of Asian children and lose in the United States (Britain)!
The advantage of western education lies in independent thinking; The advantage of oriental education is hard work and practicality, but it is not perfect, because each has its own shortcomings. Advise parents: not all foreign moons are full, but our education has also trained many outstanding talents. Instead, encourage children: it is really a good thing for universities to go abroad to broaden their horizons. If you have the heart, it will be more beautiful to return to China to benefit your hometown in the future.
As for small international students? In fact, American and British schools may not be easy to mix! I think: serious children can actually study hard everywhere! Give children a correct reading concept and be full of curiosity, then, whether in the East or the West, they will achieve something! However, when children are young, they need a complete family and need the care of small international students. Parents should think twice.
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