An experience that changed my views on education was my month on U.S.A, the way how teacher tread us, the way how they teach, everything was extremely different from my view of school.
The educational concept from China and USA are different, We only cares about the grade that shows on the test, the score means all. Teacher only wants grade, parents only wants grade, because of that brainwashing education, I used to study like a machine, only put things in my brain, take out when exam coming, I don’t even know what’s the purpose of those thing in my mind, but just for getting a good grade。
At U.S.A, once I was in classroom, the teacher called me for a question, I give her the exactly the same thing from the textbook. But she asked: I know that’s the answer, but this is from the textbook, I want your answer, use your own words to say it. At that time, my English wasn’t really good, I can only get a few words from what she said, so I thought she didn’t hear clearly, so I repeated my answer . She probably figured that I couldn’t understand her, so she asked the other Chinese student to translate for me, after that she asked me again, but I couldn’t really give one since never try to integrate the knowledge in to my own things , so I said I don’t know, she didn’t embarrass me, but asked me to have my own answer next time. So I start to make knowledge in to my own things, try to understand it, and use my own way to say, describe it ,use in the real world…
