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2012 American Education 1. A Brief Introduction 2. Elementary Education 3. Secondary Education 4. Higher Education 5. Admission and Academic Levels 6. Graduate Study 7. Well-known Universities in America 8. Libraries 1. A Brief Introduction to American Education (1) The general view of Americans on education (2) Guiding ideals (3) GILTED BEHAVIORS in middle school (4) The characteristics of American education (5) 美国21世纪5C外语学习标准 教育是培养新生一代准备从事社会生活的整个过程，也是人类社会生产经验得以继承发扬的关键环节，主要指学校对适龄儿童、少年、青年进行培养的过程。广义上讲，凡是增进人们的知识和技能、影响人们的思想品德的活动，都是教育。狭义的教育，主要指学校教育，其涵义是教育者根据一定社会（或阶级）的要求，有目的、有计划、有组织地对受教育者的身心施加影响，把他们培养成为一定社会（或阶级）所需要的人的活动。类型有正规教育、成人教育、技术教育、特殊教育、终身教育等。 Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another. 学习是透过教授或体验而获得知识、技术、态度或价值的过程，从而导致可量度的稳定的行为变化，更准确一点来说是建立新的精神结构或审视过去的精神结构。 Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves. (1) The general view of Americans on education In the United States, education is regarded as both an individual benefit and a social necessity. The general view of Americans on education is that every American has the right and obligation to become educated. Americans believe that, through education, an individual acquires the knowledge, skills, attitudes and abilities which will enable him to fit into society and improve his social status. Education helps to shape the society and develop the national strength. Very often they look to education as the cause of personal and national success and the cure of social and economic ills, holding the view that the future of