The Diference of Education Between China and Western Countries(中西方教育差异及差异形成的原因).docVIP

What caused the differences of education between west and china? Education is a highly complicated affair, it concerns with almost all aspects in our society. Education in china is quite different from western countries, and those differences have deep political, economic, social, cultural and historical roots .Now I will analyze them one by one. First, the politics As far as I can see social system plays a key role in the development of education ,what kind of politics will produce what kind of education ,the differences in political system influenced the trend of respective education .The educational philosophy have to serve the society in which it seeking for a good development. Government is the main body to formulate education policies; control of education funding .Therefore, education is dominated by the ruling class. Western countries are in a mature capitalist society, after a long-term development, they have formed a set of perfect educational system. Compared with China, western education is relatively free and open, the states and schools have greater power to decide the teaching materials and teaching methods. While in China, things are quite different. Education has strictly controlled by the central government, I think it basically because china is at the primary stage of socialism, and our government want to shape the citizens as loyal socialists, the schools and educators have little power in education activities. Second, the socio-economic Education has economical function, it contribute a lot to develop economy and in return, economy advance the development of education .so, differences in the economic development patterns influenced their respective demands on types of human resources Chinas market economy is underdevelopment, and its secondary industry requires a lot of labor, the requirements of scientific and cultural quality for workers is low. However, with highly developed capitalist economy, Western countries` Tertiary Indust