大学英语听力教程 Unit 2 Education概要1.pptVIP

Lead in Discuss the following questions with your partner and then use the questions as clues to make a dialogue with your partner. 1. How do you feel when you take an exam? 2. Do you think exams exert important influence on education? 3. Any suggestions for the improvement of the education system in China? Chinese education focuses on the knowledge to accumulate and indoctrinate (instruct), on how students use and manage the knowledge they learned in school , and on how to understand the knowledge system and structure. American care more about how students use knowledge in society. It lets student challenge the knowledge, animadvert (criticize) ideas, and focus on, exploit or create knowledge. Education Foreign education is not the preparation for earning their living, but for survival. “The learned education” has the value of molding one’s mind, one kind of value which has nothing to do with the utility or the occupation consideration. The Chinese parents care about the reputation in educating the child. Educating the child to become a useful person is their achievement, but if not, the parents feel shameful. The educations goal is for earning their living, for honor. When the Chinese child goes to college, his comparison is more intense. If he studies in Qinghua, Beijing University, or other famous universities, his parents will take a pride in him; if he has not been matriculated in a famous university, he will feel sad and ashamed of facing relatives. Above all, we can know Chinese put their faces in the first place. The Western children choose the college according to their own likes, instead of taking “famous or top college” as the decision factor. What the China’s traditional culture grasps is life and morals, so the Chinese value life and the human relations extremely. Therefore, the Chinese teacher have regarded the morals as the highest value orientation in the education. Especially, i