中西方文化差异英语论文

A Comparative study on school education in America and China

As we all know, there are lots of differences in school education between China and America. Now I want to talk about the differences from primary education to higher education.

The reasons why I want to compare this two kinds of education style are very simple. First, if we want to learn about a country we should learn its education style to learn about how they cultivate the next generation. Second, we can learn other's advantages and improve ours, especially for we developing countries. Third, development of society always rely on science, and science come from education, if we want to be strong, education is the very key.

You may ask why the differences exist, yeah, why? In my opinion, differences come so obviously because we have quite different thinking methods, we Chinese prefer to summarize experience after every practice, and we are good at applying our summary into practice. While Americans are used to doing some practice first, they can achieve a lot in these practice. In other words our thinking method is limited in the elder generation's experience serously, what we do is to apply these summary into applicaion, it will do great harm to our innovation. Now let us compare our different kind of education style from primary education to higher education between the two countries.

1.Primary School Education

It's so common that our children suffer lots of homework after class, what is more, the young have to attend to every kind of extra class to improve their scores, we have to admire that our children grasp better basic knowledge, however, what we lose is far more than what we gain. As is the time should we have a reflection, we put so heavy pressure on the young, but it does not work well, children ought to have a happy childhood.

While, children in American have less classes and less homework, teachers prefer to let the young do more activities not exercise they want them to consider more and

achieve the interest during their practice. Teachers often let children have free talks to train speaking skills, so today we can see Americans do better in arguing.During primary education, their students mainly study math and language, teachers usually arrange some activities which need to be finished in group, it not only improve the young's friendship but also do good to their sense of a teamwork. We can see the US children have quite relaxed growing environment. They have a more comfortable childhood I think.

2.High School Education

I am willing to talk more about this part as this period impressed me so much.

In Chinese high school, we study for three years, during this period, students have a lot of things to do, most of which is about study, every day we are preparing for college entrance examination, we all want to make good scores and choose an ideal college, so you can imagine this three-year career is a great challenge for us.Everyday, we begin our class from 7:00 to 12:00 in the morning and from 2:00

till 5:30 in the afternoon, during a day's study, we mainly have math, physic, chemistry, biology, English and Chinese classes, these are the very subjects we should prepare for college entrance examination. We also have some interesting classes. Each week we have two PE classes, during this time we can do what sports we love and we can also relax ourselves, in my opinion only two PE classes are really not enough for us. We have two psychology classes, in this class teacher will show us some exciting topics that have something to do with us, it really help us a lot when we feel lost and frustrated. In Art class teacher will show us famous pictures and tell us the story of each work, we feel quite relaxed at this moment as we can have a sleep or do some other things. Though study is essential during these three years, yet what is the most important I think is that we develop great friendship during high school life, and our friendship is so pure that we can trust each other without any hesitation. Though these three years is the busiest period,

it really give us an valuable memory.

When we come to American high school, we can see they have a relaxed study life,as is seen,their high school life is very simillar to our college life, they