Adopting Other Culture's Ideas

Adopting Other Culture's Ideas

  • Submitted By: crispyfly
  • Date Submitted: 03/19/2009 5:11 PM
  • Category: English
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Adopting Other Culture’s Ideas
Choosing a beneficial educational method is an influential decision aimed at students’ education. With declining test scores and poor academic achievement, many people are uncertain whether United States (U.S.) should maintain its own system, or it should apply the Asian educational methods in American schools. The American educational system provides an equal opportunity for all children in the United States. It promotes the freedom of creativity, originality, and expression among students, but it has less emphasis in students’ academic performance that Asian countries mostly treasure. On the other hand, the Asian educational system promotes higher quality of teaching methods, builds students’ motivation to learn, and stresses the importance of students’ effort and diligence as an approach to achievement in schools. Nevertheless, it deprives away students’ freedom to think creatively, express their own opinions, and experiment with ideas in classrooms. U.S. and Asia have both advantages and disadvantages in their educational system, and hence combination of both systems can yield success toward students’ education by incorporating some of the Asian educational methods into the American educational system.
Students who attend schools in the United States have the freedom to speak, think, and be creative. The author Kie Ho in the essay “We Should Cherish Our Children’s Freedom to Think” exemplifies the benefits of attending in United States’ schools. For example, on the journey to the Laguna Beach Museum of Art, where there was exhibit of schoolchildren’s work, “they had transformed simple paper lunch bags into, among other things, a waterfall with flying fish” (Ho 204). Those schools provoke students to fully develop their creative and intellectual thoughts by offering them opportunities to explore and imagine innovative ideas in a new and unique way. If those schools limit students’ freedom to be creative, students will never be...

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