The essential difference is that students in middle schools in China are under great pressure, because everyone has to face a very essential problem, that is, the college entrance examination. If you can't get good grades in the college entrance examination, then these years' efforts will be in vain. It is different in foreign countries, because most foreign education is not exam-oriented education, and foreign countries are guiding children to develop different personalities. In short, foreign education may be happier for children.
The needs of society are different, and so are domestic universities. In domestic universities, teachers and professors instill the knowledge summarized by predecessors into children, and all the experiences summarized by predecessors are passed on to children. I hope students can learn these knowledge and experience, and then stand on the shoulders of giants and explore different things. However, education abroad is different. In foreign education, children will raise all kinds of problems and solve them by themselves during their college years, which means encouraging children to explore and solve problems by themselves.
Domestic education is different from foreign education in nature, but its contribution to this society is indeed the same. Because the domestic and foreign societies are different, the domestic society itself needs some talents selected by exam-oriented education. Generally speaking, there are essential differences between domestic and foreign education, but there is no need to choose high or low, because there is no essential difference between the two kinds of education.