School moral education in primary and secondary schools, junior high schools and higher education in Australia attaches great importance to cultural education. The essential difference is that Australian culture and education pay attention to the full preparation of children's life path, while China's education only pays attention to the college entrance examination once, but ignores the whole life.
Australian primary and secondary schools are basically playing, but don't get me wrong. When I say play, I mean to let children play happily at the right age. No work pressure. More importantly, let children like learning, like research, and like learning the most basic way of learning knowledge-reading comprehension.
Primary and secondary schools will continue to do one thing, that is, let every child try to express and try to communicate with the public. This kind of professional skills should run through the whole life path. In the six years of junior high school in Australia, it takes every child three years to find his hobbies, and then he chooses to study in vocational and technical schools to cultivate practical professional skills (such as TAFE, VET and other vocational training institutions), or to deeply analyze his hobbies and enter universities.
In the first three years of junior high school, every child needs to choose a variety of courses, such as music, arts and crafts, food industry, film and television advertising, fashion design, woodworking, machining and manufacturing, art appreciation, fitness, mathematics, science, rationality, etc., all of which are stipulated in the curriculum standards. Some private schools will have more choices on this basis.
Therefore, in Australia, there will never be a situation in which children who go to college will not make "scrambled eggs with tomatoes", and they will never wake their parents up in the middle of the night to learn a secret recipe.
Children also have geography lessons. Children in China are remembering what is the largest freshwater lake in the world and which country has the largest territory. There are no textbooks for geography classes in Australia. No problem, but the children will be divided into several working groups to do different research. For example, if you introduce the topography of Asia, you will find that children will take the initiative to learn, and even take out a PPT to show their achievements to others after more than half a month.