Most people would say that if you obtained your education in the United States of America, then you got the best education of all. This is a fascinating idea but I absolutely disagree on this. I believe that education is still based upon an individual’s character and insight in life. It is dependent on how one values education. Even if one has attained the highest education in the United States, he can still be considered uneducated if he doesn’t apply what he has learned in school. The education in the Philippines is better in some ways. Due to difficulty of life in the country and the strong desire of the Filipinos to strive hard, the education becomes the top priority. There are three aspects to compare the education between the Philippines and the United States and these include the cost of education, the type of training, and the style of education. The cost of education in the United States is very expensive, particularly college education. This results to a fewer Americans obtaining a college degree. Not everyone can afford to study. They have to be working students in order to support themselves. But because of divided attention between their work and study, their focus in school is altered. On the contrary, college education in the Philippines is less expensive so most parents can send their children to college. The books and uniforms are also affordable. Dormitories within the schools’ vicinities are cheaper. Meanwhile, the US government provides federal grants, financial aids, and tax credits to students. Likewise, there are scholarship grants in the Philippines and also college assurance plans where one can pay now and study later. The type of training in the USA is, I can say, very comprehensive and detailed. ... ... middle of paper ... ...o students do not find this difficult and rigid because besides getting the full support of their parents, they don’t have jobs that interfere with their schedule. Therefore, there are pros and cons in obtaining education both in the United States and in the Philippines. Both have strong and weak points. But since education is the key toward a successful and a prosperous country, and both countries want to be successful and prosperous anyway, I think it would be a better idea that these two countries should adapt the positive aspects of education of each. I wonder what education would be like if all countries in the whole world will acclimatize to what is beneficial and become more flexible and open minded enough to support education with all their best and at the same time providing all the resources the students need for a better education toward a better future?
The United States has proven to be a world leader with their powerful military, democratic government, and stringent foreign policies. There is one category however, the United States struggles to be number one in, education. As shocking as this may sound, the public school system in America is not superior to other developing countries. I have witnessed this scandalous phenomena firsthand, engrossed in the public school system from kindergarten to freshman year of high school. The student body and the school administration is morphing into a nonproductive system with a zombie-like attitude. American students lack academic drive and curiosity compared to European and Asian countries because the standard for academic success is constantly lowered. Americans must reform the school system and change their perspective on how important an education is to the rest of the world.
In The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way, Amanda Ripley investigates the education systems of three of the world’s highest performing countries offering insight into the components necessary to raise education in the United States from its current mediocre place on the world stage. By involving three teenage American exchange students, Ripley gained access to firsthand experience of the familiar US system as compared to the highly competitive systems in Finland, South Korea and Poland. The author proposes that, although the systems vary greatly, commonalities in cultural valuation of education, rigor and teacher quality have made students from these three countries the “smartest kids in the world.”
Something I have always known since I was a little kid is that the educational system in this country is a complete fraud. American schools claim to live by the ideal of No Child Left Behind, but millions of students get cast aside each and every year. In schools these days, it is obvious which students are the elite—those that are raised up and motivated to go to college—and the ordinary student— those that are somewhat ignored throughout their schooling and are lucky if they even earn a GED. As a recent graduate of high school, and a product of this country’s educational system, I have had the opportunity to develop my own opinions regarding the myth of education in our society. Based upon my observations going through the school system, and the various arguments posed by several authors in “Rereading America”, I strongly believe that schooling in this society caters solely to students in the elite category while ostracizing students that do not live up to the elitist ideal.
Education, according to Dictionnary.com is “the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university”. However, education is taught differently everywhere. The educational system of each country is created based on their own cultures, traditions, and historical background. Each county, perhaps, have their own way to teach and manage their educational systems. Unlike some countries. “The US has most diversified education system in the world, with public and private schools at all levels flourishing alongside each other” (Hampshire, 2006) Even though the U.S. display some similarities such as a diverse population of students in classes and a great emphasize on education and education and academic success, they however differ dramatically in teaching methods, student aids, teacher evaluation system, and resources. Though not so far apart on the map, the education system in Haiti and the educational system in the United states are extremely opposite when it comes to organization, technology, and finance.
Imagine only paying for transportation, meals, supplies, room, board for college, and small college fees. This is exactly what other countries like Germany and Sweden are doing. Instead of having students pay an enormous amount for their education, these countries only require an individual to pay for their own basic needs with a small tuition fee as well. It is no surprise that students from the U.S are traveling overseas to get these benefits. In the meantime, colleges in the U.S have only become more expensive each year, and it’s greatly affecting graduating high school students since each student has to find a way to pay for his or her college tuition. The college graduates are then affected because they have to pay for the outrageous debt
Can American education stand to be improved? Of course! America isn’t a top performing country in academics. Other countries have much better, focused, and strict education programs that produce top students. While the United States isn’t failing in education, it definitely has some areas that could stand to be improved. Parents need to be more involved in their kid’s education, testing shouldn’t be the focal point of school, teachers need to be better qualified, and students should strive to do their best. If all of these can be achieved, then education in America can be improved.
While many Americans, and even more unfortunate is American teachers, claim that global education would harm American values and go against what America stands for (Webb), a global education presents the ability to either properly expand upon one’s knowledge of the world with accurate information about their true culture and their language, or a global education could either undeservingly demote or promote a country to a ranking it may or may not deserve. Without global education, our future generations will face unnecessary challenges and face the possibility of destroying everything that we, the world, built upon to maintain
That’s what mode people from different part of the world to go American because of the country educational benefits. In America, both the naturally born citizens, green card holders, and international students are taking advantage of the educationally system and the financial assistants that are being offered. In contrast, many countries do not have the same level of educational programs or the financial assistants. Furthermore, American government provides free public school education from kindergarten through post-secondary education. Also, the school’s systems offer rich field of choices for international students that are coming to American for education. On the positive side, academic funds like student financial aid, which is accessible to students that are attending four years’ university or community college with the aim of assisting in covering most of the school experiences. Truly, work-study program is another financial assistant that help student to work and go to school at the same time which most countries do not have, but only in American educational system. On the same note, American’s system of education inspired other countries from different part of the world. And therefore, numerous amounts of immigrants came to American to enjoy the privileges of free education which includes grants, and some of the federal student loan programs
Chinese education is depend on the population of China and National Higher Education Entrance Examination. Compare to China, where students have no choice but well perform well on test to be attend to college. American students have more choice to college such as community college or going to four year college after high school. Even though, American education is not doing well now, but there still has some good advantages. Therefore, America can keep their good advantages and creative new way to improve their education system. It better than emulate other countries education
Recently I was watching a group of kids in Nicaragua sitting in class. They were so happy and ecstatic that it brought a smile to my face, but then reality hit me. Students in America take for granted the chance to be educated, while students in Nicaragua value their education because they know it is a chance out of poverty. I have been to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, located in Central America, eight times and every time I have been there, I have learned something new.
The first inhabitants of the Philippines arrived from the land bridge from Asia over 150,000 years ago. Throughout the years, migrants from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other parts of Asia made their way to the islands of this country. In the fourteenth century, the Arabs arrived and soon began a long tradition of Islam. Many Muslims are still living in the Philippines today.
...s of the process of education, both from an individualised and a global point of view, have never actually been researched properly, not as a unit. There is no comparison between the two. It is a fairly large blind spot, and makes it hard to figure out if the macroeconomic gains are as good as the microeconomic gains on education (Psacharopoulos and Patrinos, 2004). The logical answer would be “yes” if the difference in investment capitals and risks at the higher levels of the economy were not so different. Therefore, one direction of the conclusion would be that further and deeper investigations regarding the social advantages of education emerge as a necessity, since investment and reform financing mechanisms will not invent themselves. And developing countries need clear evidence that school will help them earn a better living (Psacharopoulos and Patrinos, 2004).
The differences of countries also involve their system of education. Education is indeed necessary to every single person in all parts of the world. Philippines is a country that was influenced a lot by the United States. Although this may be true, the system of education in both countries is different. The standards of education in the United States are higher than most of the countries. However, the secondary education in the Philippines is approved by the government to change to a curriculum like the United States’. The system of education in the United States and the Philippines are different in terms of the number of years, the courses or subjects available, and the degrees that the schools offer.
Another important difference in students time management that is mainly affected by the learners motivation in school and at university. The motivation of school students is comes from parents and teachers, who reward or punish students for keeping up their studies. Students are unexpected to plan or do anything besides follow the timetable and study schedule from teachers. When a student moves on to undertake university study at undergraduate level, there is demanded to be more self-motivated and independent learning. Such as plan a learning programme that takes into consideration time available for study. As Marshall and Rowland (1993, 41) shown that, ¡¥if students are studying at a distance in tertiary education are needed to be particularly careful in setting priorities and balance a certain time between work and study, family and social life.
According to Article XV, Sec. 1 of the Constitution provides that “the State shall provide and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels and shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.” This is one of the pipe dreams of the framers who should have known that, like social justice, government transparency and other fantasies, it belonged to the wonderful Land of Oz (Cruz, 04/05/2009). Quality of education here in the Philippines has two sides, good and bad. The good one is the one that the private schools are offering, besides the good facilities they also have an updated books that can help the students to know more about the subjects that they are studying and also the technology, many technology now are made for the students to make an assignment easily. The bad side is that in the public schools I observed that some of the students there were not paying anymore attention at their lessons because of the crowdedness of classrooms, some are eager to learn but they don’t have enough books or technologies to study and understand their lesson more. It can also affect the progress of our country, because the students are the future workers of our country. Victor T. king discussed in his study that underdevelopment. Underdevelopment is a country which has many problems in terms of job opportunities limited stock of resources and the like.For me underdevelopment is the effect of what education did this batch of graduates are, I’m not saying that public schools can’t produce a good students, my point is that sometimes it is depends on the students on how eager she or he is to learn the lesson.