In ordinary high schools, I will learn a lot of knowledge that is only useful in exams and will never come into contact with it again. I am a science and engineering major, and the only things that help in high school are math, English and physics. When I finish my freshman and sophomore year, when I get to the professional class, basically only English is useful; Only math and English can continue to help after graduation. Almost everything I learned in high school for the college entrance examination was wasted. And learning takes time and energy. Discipline education in international high schools can choose disciplines and routes. I'm a little familiar with the systems of MGO and Alevel. International high schools will provide different learning paths, such as students who want to study engineering in the future, and high schools will choose many courses such as mathematics and physics; Students who want to study business in the future will choose calculus, statistics, economics and other courses in high school. Don't learn what you don't like and are not good at. This provides students with a lot of opportunities to dig deep into their fields of interest and professional knowledge. The resources of international schools are generally superior to those of ordinary high schools. The clubs and activities of international high schools will be very rich, with specifications far exceeding those of ordinary high schools. After all, the tuition is there. From the above characteristics of international high schools, we can further deduce where international high schools help students with good study habits and strong abilities. International high schools require students to have autonomy and think about what they want to learn and what they are interested in. Students with goals will save time in learning useless knowledge, get good resources from the school, and start to contact their future university majors one or two years earlier than ordinary high school students. On the other hand, if students have no autonomy, they will easily indulge in depravity in international schools, because most international schools are loosely managed, which is similar to living a college life in China in high school in advance-playing games every day and passing the exam. University rankings will not be improved because domestic universities are difficult to test, nor will they be reduced because foreign universities apply well. Foreign universities rank high because of good scientific research results, high teaching quality and good service quality. The quality of education received by the same students in foreign universities will be much higher than that in domestic universities. When I was an undergraduate in China, I had no choice of domestic courses. A person's major limits most of the courses he must take in recent years, and all he can choose are unimportant things. But there are obviously so many directions for a major to develop, but everyone has to follow a fixed route. I write about the operation of foreign universities in the distance behind. Give a few examples:
I am currently teaching a student, who is a sophomore. This summer vacation, I participated in a cooperation project between schools and universities. Junior students have classes together, and the teacher is a teacher from a foreign university. The course content is very difficult. The teacher knows that there are high school students listening, but it is still difficult to say it quickly. It is necessary to write an article at the end of the class. For students, this learning experience is very personalized. Anyone who is interested in economics, as long as the language meets the requirements, can come to study to see if he has accepted the challenge. Before class, he spends a long time looking up materials to supplement the foundation, and whether he is still interested in highly quantified economics full of mathematical formulas. These are all helping students think about what they want in the future. A student I took a few years ago is currently studying liberal arts at Cornell. High school students study hard and often study as much as ordinary high school students. I'm not very good at science, but I published papers related to history in high school. Being able to study liberal arts in top rattan schools is beyond the reach of most teachers. A student a few years ago is currently studying at the University of Colorado, which ranks around 30 in the United States, majoring in mathematics. Even the school teacher said that there were too many AP scores in the high school exam, but he didn't have any opinion on me, so I took it by force. Finally, I didn't get 5 points in one subject, and all the others were full marks. He has a physics course in college, and the teacher is a Nobel Prize winner. There is another place in this school that left a deep impression on me, and I realized that the original university can graduate like this: he studies mathematics, and there are three or four routes for graduation, and he can study mathematics and statistics (the specific name may be wrong, after all, I don't know much about the system of other majors). Each route has a required course for this route, and students can also transfer to other routes halfway, just making up the required courses for the new route. Graduation requires total credits to meet the requirements. In this way, students can choose what they are most interested in and learn more. A student I took a few years ago has a rich family and runs a hospital. But parents are too busy, and family education is basically gone. In the student's own words, the way parents manage him is to "throw cards"-just give money and nothing else. The temperament of the students is not quite right. Hormones and money are too abundant, but there is no need to be responsible. They just hang around every day. A student who is currently teaching, senior three. This student went to one of the best junior high schools in the area. His father works in a bank and his mother is a Chinese teacher in a public school. This student has a solid foundation in mathematics and quick response. However, in the past two years, international high schools have also made people have a bad temperament: lazy, not interested in anything, not interested in anything except playing mobile phones and sleeping. Whether to attend an international high school is a prudent choice for parents and children. Ordinary high schools are parts processing factories, and students go in to exercise; International high schools give students the right to choose, but this is a choice and a trap.
With the permission of the family, you can't go to an ordinary high school with poor grades. After all, international high school is a way to save you. If the academic performance is good, international high schools may provide much higher education quality than ordinary high schools. But for students with average academic performance, it is necessary to weigh them carefully. We adults still can't keep forging ahead all the time. Whether students go to the parts processing factory for standardized processing, or go to the place where sheep are herded to deal with the temptation brought by the right to choose.