The other day my friend, Nicole, gave me the idea for this
post. She did a whole presentation about how teens live in china and I thought
it was really interesting so I decided to share with you guys what I learned.
Schools in China teach fundamentally the same things they teach us
here: science, math, geography, art, music, etc. They also study English and
Chinese which is a little different than our language arts curriculum. But I
was actually really surprised as to how similar our lives really are. When we
think of China’s culture, it just seems so different from our own so it is
interesting to learn that our lives are not horribly different. However, it is
true that the students put more of an emphasis on their education than we
typically do in the United States. They have a little bit of a longer school
day than we do and still have to do homework every day after school.
One major difference between the education system in china
and the United States is that some of their classes focus more on teamwork,
selflessness, respect, morals and selflessness. Our schools try to teach us to
respect others, that bullying is wrong and things like that but China’s curriculum
puts even more of an emphasis on it. They also focus a lot on mathematics and Chinese,
these two subjects make up a majority of the curriculum and are the only two
subjects on the final exams.
So even though China’s students have this stereotype of
being really smart and successful, they aren’t so different from us.
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