Li Lijun has been talking about how good education is in western countries since she came back from her daughter's home who has settled overseas. She also encourages friends in the group to send their children abroad as long as conditions permit. After listening to Li Lijun, a mother asked a question: Is western education really more conducive to children's growth? As soon as the question was thrown, there was a lot of discussion in the group. Seeing everyone in full swing, this wise grandmother who has been engaged in education all her life also joined the discussion.
Education in the West is mainly to let children grow up in happiness, while education in China pays more attention to the study and improvement of cultural knowledge. After accepting different educational models in China and the West, which way can the children who are educated integrate into society more quickly when they grow up?
First of all, let me briefly talk about my understanding of Chinese and western education. Here I will focus on classroom education. Everyone in China is familiar with classroom education, so I won't go into details here. Let's talk about classroom education in the west. In the past, the deputy director of the teaching and research section of our city was invited to visit western countries, and after returning home, he introduced the classroom situation in western countries to us at the feedback meeting. He said that when they went deep into the classroom in America, they went to the classroom before class. In the classroom, teachers and students are together, talking about this and that. Some children are sitting, some are lying on the ground, some are lying on the floor, some are reading with books in their hands, and some are watching and fiddling with toys and the like repeatedly. However, the delegation waited for a long time and the teacher didn't say anything about the class. I didn't know this was an American classroom until class was over.
From the perspective of classroom education, western education is about freedom, and children can do whatever they want in the classroom. China's classroom requirements are very strict. In class, students are not only required to sit up straight, but also to look forward at the blackboard, and there are also rigid requirements for the posture of children writing one foot one inch and one punch. In addition to the different physical requirements for students, there are also great differences in learning between China and the West. Western countries attach importance to students' personality development and respect people's personality. The focus of education in China is the training and cultivation of learning knowledge and operational skills.