EPTOn February 22 2010 20:59 haduken wrote:
Sure, we can ace tests and memorize shits but what happened to personal development?
Take any kid from a Chinese school, test him outside his norm like public speaking and you will quickly see how one dimensional this system is. Are we doing education to better ourselves or are we doing it just so we can pass the tests?
Kids who score 75/100 are considered hopeless and ask to quit or transfer before the senior year because the school want to have a better college acceptance ratio.
It is absolutely brutal. I don't know what AP classes are but I assume it is some sort of advanced program. You do AP Classes, you still have a plan and goal of where you going and what level you are at, in China, you do these classes just so you can keep up with the people around you, you don't develop interests, you don't get to find out what you are good at or not good at. If you suck at math but good at humanities too fucking bad, you still need that score to get in a good university.
Sure, we can ace tests and memorize shits but what happened to personal development?
Take any kid from a Chinese school, test him outside his norm like public speaking and you will quickly see how one dimensional this system is. Are we doing education to better ourselves or are we doing it just so we can pass the tests?
Kids who score 75/100 are considered hopeless and ask to quit or transfer before the senior year because the school want to have a better college acceptance ratio.
It is absolutely brutal. I don't know what AP classes are but I assume it is some sort of advanced program. You do AP Classes, you still have a plan and goal of where you going and what level you are at, in China, you do these classes just so you can keep up with the people around you, you don't develop interests, you don't get to find out what you are good at or not good at. If you suck at math but good at humanities too fucking bad, you still need that score to get in a good university.
I don't know about China, but in Hong Kong parents love having their children develop certain skills (such as music and yes, public speaking). There are even annual competitions for students of all ages to participate (and they do... well I did and I saw a lot of people haha).
I believe my friend had an average lower than 75 (in Hong Kong), and that was considered pretty good since very few people scored higher than 80, let alone 90. He came to Canada to finish his senior year and performed better than pretty much everyone. The main point is, in HK he was average, in Canada he was awesome.
Oh, and isn't form 5 equivalent to grade 11?
