American_Education(美国教育).doc

The education of AmericaKey words: American education, elementary education, secondary education, high education, advantages of American educationAbstract: The education of American , is so called the best education in the world. Why do so many people have this opinion? Do you know the advantages of its education? What are the difference between the American education and the Chinese education? Now I will illustrate the answer for you in the words below.Instruction part:America, as we all know, is one of the most developed country in the world. We say it is developed, not only on the science and finance fields, but also on the education field. That is why so many students go to America for studying every year.However, why we say the education of America is the best all over the world? And what is the advantages when it compared with the education of China? Now let us search the American education system together.Different from China, under the United States constitution, the Federal government has no power to make laws in the field of education; each state is fully responsible within its own territory. The Federal government can give financial help but not orders. Each state has an educational administration, not subject to federal control, and the state authorities lay down general principles concerning the organization of schools and such matters as the ages of compulsory education.We can divide the progress of American education into three steps. Elementary education, secondary education and high education. Elementary education:In the United States elementary education begins at the age of six. Classes of students are divided into twelve academic levels called grades.At elementary stage, nearly all the teachers are women, mostly married. The atmosphere is usually very friendly, and the teachers have for a long time now accepted the idea that the important thing is to make the children happy and interested. The old rigid and authoritarian methods of education were discredited in America rather a long time ago- so much so that many people now think that they have gone too far in the direction of trying to make children happy and interested rather than giving them actual instruction.secondary education:The students go to high school automatically after finishing their elementary school education. There is no entrance exam. The high schools, junior and senior, have a good reputation in the country. They take their responsibilities very seriously and not only in the classroom. They have guidance counselors to whom children can go privately if they have any special problems, especially about their careers. The high school students day may be divided into nine periods: five for academic subjects, one session for physical education, a lunch period, and two study periods. The study periods may be used for visiting the library or participating in an extracurricular activity such as the school orchestra, newspaper staff, or math club. There are now some special high schools in America which train boys and girls for jobs - secretaries, mechanics, computer specialists, and accountants. Businessmen take an interest in such schools and encourage the teaching of salesmanship and business techniques. The fear of young people today is to grow up and find no job waiting for them. so they need no encouragement to work hard at school.high education:For a long time, America has led the world in higher, education, quantitatively at least. The aggregate number of U.S. institutions of higher education is, at last count, 3,280. This figure represents one institution for every 75,000 Americans. Slightly more than half of all institutions of higher education are privately supported many of them by religious groups.In American colleges and universities, a vast array of subjects is offered. The student can sample different fields of knowledge, but he usually majors in one field during last two years of college. If he wishes, he may obtain professional training at the undergraduate level, for example, in accounting, teaching, journalism, or dramatics. Certain state colleges specialize in training agricultural experts and engineers.Most importantly, they work intensively with students writing thesis or dissertations. Guiding masters and Ph. d. candidates through the final writing and examination stages of their programs may be seen as an extension of the teaching act; nevertheless, it takes up much faculty time. Here the faculty member becomes both critic and editor of manuscripts which maybe several hundred pages in length.Analysis and comment:Have said so much above, we can see that American education have lots differences between our Chinese education. First, the Federal government has no power to make laws in the field of education, so they dont have to think of the benefits of the government, what they should do is just teaching and tell students right from wrong. However in China, our schools are influenced by the government, so, the teacher have to tell us the positive things instead the fact about our government.Second, unlike China, there is no entrance exam before we go to the high school in American, so that the American children can enjoy their children hood and train the interests on every fields. When we are busy on our exam, they are making their plan for the future!Now, I want to tell you a story about myself.Before coming to the university, I was a good student in my middle schools teachers eyes for my diligent and enthusiasm. I listened to the teachers carefully and did my homework on time. a lot of people did it like me in my school, because we have the same dream-go to the good university. But I have no idea about which collage I want to go and which field I like to be in in the future. I just went to the collage which has the highest mark. Now, Im in grade two of university and I find I dont like my major at all. In fact, I am interested in the other subject. What should I do and what can I doActually, I think we should have our plan of the future before we go to the university and we should have chance to touch every fields in our life to find out our best choice. At least, we should know what we like and what we dont like. But we cant do that. What we can do is to practice more and more for our exam.Conclusion:By saying so much above we can find that in the elementary education, the teacher try them best to make the children fell happy and make