Wake Up ~ Educationalists ( Journal # 9 )

I have been to USA for 2 months ago. Everything is fine, the weather, people, and food all surprise me. I have also found a special situation that was worth discussing. That was American education. For most of students, the most important purpose to them is accepting America education, but the most difficult adaptation is America education as well. Particularly for Asian students such as: Japanese, Korean, and Chinese, the vastest challenges will be how they can be involved into the different education systems. Why I especially mention about Asian students, that is, most of Asian students, we are accustomed to being a good listener but not being a good talker. I remembered that when I was in the school, I rarely had opportunities to express my own ideals. Most of time, we just sat down the chairs, took notes, and listened to the lectures the teacher talked to.

In the contrast, when I touched the American education, I noticed that American teacher were used to utilizing distinct group work to improve students’ academic skills. American teachers preferred group discussing to solely listening lectures. They believed that by academic discussion, students not only could train their independent thinking but also could learn how to communicate with those people who had different backgrounds. By this approaches, students were able to challenge each other and to gain numerous knowledge and ideals that they didn’t touch before.

I feel very pathetic. Comparing American students, Asian students were always lack of critical thinking and confidence. For example, as I practiced my writing skills, I always had no clues about my essays topic, so I spent a great amount of time thinking the related ideals. However, since accepting American education, I have been starting thinking many varied issues that I touched already. Because of the brain storming, gradually, I started having some novel ideals. However, I felt pity because Asian students were lack of such suitable education systems. I hoped that our educationalists could wake up and do something. If they do so, I believed that we will discover another Bill Gates in the Asia country.