One stresses form and the other stresses practicality.
The difference between education in China and education in the United States is that education in China is rigorous, while education in the United States is free, but the crime rate in China is much higher than that in the United States. Because they give students the right to make mistakes, parents and teachers should not deprive students of the right to make mistakes, otherwise they will feel depressed.
China and the United States have different cultural and historical backgrounds and different education. Many people think that China's basic education is solid, and some American educators are also calling for learning basic education from Asia, including China. "Mathematical prodigy" and "Mathematical idiot"
Americans try to let children play, and advocate using children's exploratory nature to get in touch with nature, know the real world and build a cognitive foundation. Let children feel the size, shape, color and texture with five senses, and feel the meaning of numbers with heart, not just get the correct answer. They believe that children can't learn abstractly like older children or adults, but can only use their impressions of the real world to establish logical thinking. Children in China can know that 3+4=7 even if they don't understand it. Memorizing the multiplication table is just parroting.
Some people may ask, what can children learn from playing? When Piaget, a Swiss psychologist, observed his 10-month-old son, he found that the child always tore the bread into pieces and threw it on the ground, and observed the landing point of the bread very intently. The behavior of children throwing things is not worth making a fuss about, but many parents will tell their children that they can't throw things anymore when they pick up these things, but rarely think about their motives for throwing things. Piaget found that it may be the process of children exploring and learning gravity. Why did the bread fall? The balloon will float? Will the milk come out? Children began to understand and experience the world.
In the first grade class of American elementary schools, this scene may be staged: when the teacher asks, "What is 7+8?" China children can immediately answer "15" without thinking. What a genius! American children may not have enough fingers, but they should take off their shoes and use their hands and feet. They are so stupid! American students are notorious for their poor math skills. It seems that China's education cultivates "math prodigies"; American education, on the other hand, trains "mathematical idiots".
Of course, today's Hua Er generation in North China, although somewhat influenced by American traditional educational ideas, is no less than the United States, with engineers, postdocs and professionals everywhere.
Emphasize results and processes.
American education attaches importance to reading rather than reciting, because extensive reading can increase broad background knowledge, broaden horizons and enrich imagination; Recitation may be bound by predecessors' thinking and it is difficult to innovate.
American education allows students to do projects and do deeper research on a certain subject through inquiry learning. When a student studies a subject deeply, he needs to read a lot of materials, learn relevant knowledge and think about the problems to be solved. Then do experiments, write papers, answer questions and defend. Looking back, I have not only undergone comprehensive training in reading and writing, but also learned knowledge far beyond the scope of textbooks. Everyone's energy is limited, and it is impossible to discuss all the topics in depth. It is important to exercise and cultivate the ability of in-depth study and research through inquiry. With extensive knowledge and the ability to study and study in depth, won't you achieve a profound goal?
Education is a cause that the whole society should support. Many experiments of American high school students who entered the final of the Intel Science Prize competition were completed in university laboratories. Most of the instructors are university professors, and their grades have a certain weight, not pediatrics. These winners also have excellent exam results. The United States also devolves many basic university courses to high schools and gives them to capable students, whose achievements can be recognized by universities.
However, there are also many problems in American basic education, and the standards are uneven. Under the guidance of the concept of happy childhood, children have no study pressure, which leads to many students not working hard, which is a great waste of educational resources. Some of them can't remember the multiplication table of 1999 in the fourth and fifth grades of primary school, and they can't leave the calculator when they graduate from high school. These are far from quality education.
China's education mostly aims at taking exams, emphasizing recitation and memorization, and practicing repeatedly only within the scope of exams, so practice makes perfect. But whether it can really cultivate the ability to solve problems is worth discussing. Is it an efficient study to take the last year of high school as a sprint to review for the exam? That may be a waste of time.
Students' learning is training, so don't take the results too seriously. If you don't pay attention to the process of understanding, it is difficult to apply what you have learned, and it is even more difficult to innovate. It is nothing new that American schools stress students' comprehensive evaluation, and the top candidate in the college entrance examination is rejected by prestigious schools. Think about the top universities in the world today. How much is the United States? Most of their students come from American high school students.