The Education Of The Asian Education System

In 2014, United States attracted nearly 740k international students and cemented its place as the number one desired country in the world to receive education. Although the quality of college education has never been an issue here in America, with some American universities like MIT, Harvard and Stanford consistently appearing in the list of top universities of the world each year, the high schools leave a lot to be desired. The standard of the U.S. education at the grade level has been falling steadily over the years as evident by the declining test scores meant to assess international standards, especially in math and science. While an average American student performs poorly when compared to an average Asian student, the disturbing study is about the American students doing even worse as they age. Although the Asian education system might not be inherently better than the American education system, it has undoubtedly produced better results urging other nations to take a closer look at their educational beliefs and methods. While US educational system boasts of strengths like creativity and freedom, there are plenty of weaknesses which could be fixed by implementing national standards, improving quality of teachers while simultaneously emphasizing on discipline and parental influence.

Although not as stringent as some other Asian countries, India too has strict state and national standards owing to the centralization of schools. Due to the nature of my father’s job, I switched schools four times before attending my high school and never did it hinder my education in any way since the course material, learning outcomes and quality of teaching were almost similar across schools. Since the tests were standardized across the natio...

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... mentoring programs, awarding scholarships, grants are some of the ways to support and encourage the less fortunate students.

Since freedom is the core of the values and beliefs America runs on, employing the Asian education system in its entirety is impractical. Therefore, since the U.S. education system already has some desired remarkable strengths like freedom of speech, appreciation and encouragement towards creativity, we should instead employ just few of the impressive Asian educational practices and place high value on education in an effort to keep up with the international educational standards. Thus, by establishing and strengthening national standards, promoting teaching, enforcing discipline and stressing the importance of effort, we can give American students the necessary tools to be competitive and successful in today’s highly advanced global workforce.