EDUCATION

Education By: Prath & Brandon Have you ever wondered about how school is in other countries? School in China is allmost the same as in America. It has three levels, Primary education, Secondary education, and University or College. In China students only have to go to school until they are 14 years old. Even though it may sound cool that they don’t have to go to school and learn many students still stay in school and work to get into college.

or Vocational school || No ||
 * **Educational stages in China ** ||
 * **Age ** || **Education ** || **Compulsory ** ||
 * 18-22 || University or college || No ||
 * 15-18 || Senior high school (middle school)
 * 12-15 || Junior middle school || Yes ||
 * 6-12 || Primary school ||^  ||

Primary Education in China <span style="border-right: medium none; padding-right: 0in; border-top: medium none; padding-left: 0in; background: rgb(255,255,255); float: left; padding-bottom: 0in; border-left: medium none; width: 1.29in; padding-top: 0in; border-bottom: medium none; height: 0.94in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> //Illustration 1: Elementary School Children// Chinese Elementary schools have only been around for fifty years and it has changed a lot. In China, Elementary school starts when a child is seven years old and goes until the child is 14. This school system has shown much change in three time periods since it first started.. When it first opened, during chairman Mao's reign, and today.

<span style="border-right: medium none; padding-right: 0in; border-top: medium none; padding-left: 0in; background: rgb(255,255,255); float: left; padding-bottom: 0in; border-left: medium none; width: 1.66in; padding-top: 0in; border-bottom: medium none; height: 1.05in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> //Illustration 2:// //hairman Mao's Little Red Book// Can you imagine only having five kids in your class now, because when schools where first opened in China, thats how many kids where in a class. At this time, Chairman Mao's ideas where starting to spread about the bad influences of Europe and America, and therefore, most parents didn't feel it was necessary for their son or daughter to go to school because they would be learning the ways of western thinking. If our President started telling everyone to stop going to school and start working, do you think that anyone would fight it. When Chairman Mao claimed power, he let it be know that he “didn't care about the system”, and told kids to “just don't return to school”(Conversations). In the 1960's Chairman Mao terminated any schools that didn't teach under his guidelines. This was the beginning of a period known as reeducation. Educated kids where sent into rural towns where they would learn the ways of farming and other types of labor like mining. During this time it was also forbidden to read any books besides his Red Book. Many historians believe this time period might have been key to the extreme growth in the want of knowledge in Chinese children because even if they did want to learn, they weren't able to.

After Chairman Mao stopped being in power, almost all the children in China started going to school. And not only do most if not all the children attend, China is known to have some of the most strict schools, and is wants a lot from its students. At Chinese schools they teach mathematics, Chinese, art, music, nature, history and geography. Surprisingly, they even like to teach politics to the elementary school children. Stressing love of where they live, and love of its people. They also like to have children begin learning a second language when they are in third grade. <span style="border-right: medium none; padding-right: 0in; border-top: medium none; padding-left: 0in; background: rgb(255,255,255); float: left; padding-bottom: 0in; border-left: medium none; width: 2.65in; padding-top: 0in; border-bottom: medium none; height: 2.34in; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"> //Illustration 3: Chinese school assembly//

This has shown how the Elementary school system has changed drastically during its 50 years existence. When it first began, during Chairman Mao's reign, and today.

Secondary Education <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> There are two kinds of secondary education in China, one is book work and the other is work with <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">technical tools <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">. Students who choose to work with <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">technical tools <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> become plumbers, electricians, or other jobs like that. Most of the time people who pick to become <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">technical people <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> do not go to college. There is a large need for people who have <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">technical skills in China. Students who choose to do book work try their best to get into college. These students go to what we view as normal schools where they learn about math and science. They also do many things like in America for example they play soccer swim, and do many activites like you do in school. Getting into college is very hard in China because there are so many students, but not that many spots for them. Only about 20 percent of high school students make it into college. But these 20% are all college ready. Even though 70% of students in American go to college, only about 22% of them are college ready, almost the same as China. In 40 years from now half of all high school students in China will be ready for college.



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