How has education evolved in China?
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I found lots of hits on Google. I searched for "education history China." Take a look at these sites:\n\nhttp://www.math.ksu.edu/~dbski/publication/history.html\nhttp://www.index-china.com/index-english/education-s.htm\nhttp://www.pbs.org/kcts/preciouschildren/china/cultural.html\n\nThis is a history of Education in general. Try going to this site and then search for China on that page. There are several hits.  \nhttp://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~dschugurensky/assignment1/
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China..War isn't just who'se got more tanks and more missiles.\nThe chinease people are more cultured and better educated and the average chinease citizen knows far more about the outside world than the average American, they are not apt ot belive in such fairy tales like those that fill the amrican media about other nations and therefore they are less apt to getshoked when facing the real world in a real world.\nBesides, the educational system in china is better, and is not weakened by a weird control of regressive religious thought as the case with america andtherefore the chinease aremore innovative and can produce better research, which helps in modernizing weapons.\nThe chinease production is the highest in the world(500 major industrial cities!)and their rate of development is staggering(from 10-16% yearly!) They can afford a long war(and it has to be loong causeyou just can`t destroy the whole of china by a sudden nuclear strike, not unless you wish to commit suicide!)\nIn short China have wisdom, innovation and culture + a very modern army+ 1.3 billion citizens, most of them youth who are able to serve and ell trained for fighting.\nLets hope such war will never happen.\n\nAnd again it isn`t amatter of who spends more. USA is having a major problem in Iraq despite being a million times richer! And USA will not dare attack Iran despite having a far superior army, war isnt that simple, it isn`t a fight in a bar:)
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My parents are chinese, and they said that they learn math and science a lot more than the rest of the world, i'd say a few grades more. they also learn english as a second language, since it's the second most spoken lang(madarin chinese is the first) and they learn ahead because there aren't as many colleges to accept everyone, so the parents push hard to be one of the not-so-many selected
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The country is still totally controlled by the Communist Party of China, which is the central government.  Individual provinces have their own governments, controlled by party members.\nBut economically, capitalism has been allowed to flourish, bringing prosperity to the country which communism failed to do.  The first people to benefit from this are the Communists - very ironically, the sworn opponents of capitalism!  Hopefully, however, the centralisation of power and national planning will channel this new money the right way.  The government has just announced it's latest 5-year plan for the rural (agricultural) sector (most Chinese are still down on the farm, and poor).  All agricultural taxes have been abolished and many measures will be taken to help the farmers. One wishes them every success in this worthwhile endeavour.
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It's not a good idea to compare educational levels of people who lived 2,000 years ago to people who live today.  \n\nNot to mention, one'e level of education is not reflective of their character.  It's better to be a good person than to be a smart one.
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Chinas a country in the Eastern Hemisphere, lot's of history, really big country, lot's of people. \n\nBe more specific with your questions
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Well I used to be in a Chinese elementry school for 2 years before transfering to an international school so hope this helps.\nFirst there can be as many as 50 kids in one class, and only one teacher for the class. In all the classrooms the setting is the same: one of those little tables with a little 'drawer' for each student, so no one sits together. \nYes we wear school uniforms, one for the warm weather and one for the colder weather. In some school the dress code can be a little too strict. The school I went to allowed only red hair accessories.\nWe learn Chinese more by writing them than prouncing them. The reason is because there are many words that sounds the same. With the writing the school can be pretty strict. you'd have to write the characters in a certain order, like "write the left half of the word first, starting from the top" etc.\nMath was also very important. In fact the Chinese students learn the more complicated math long before the American students do.\nAll the sciences (biology, chemistry etc) are in one class, I think. i don't know too much about it though.\nAs for PE because it's a big class the students usually play group games. For younger kids it's games like tag, when they get older they can also play badminton, table-tennis or even basketball.\nAnd yes after exams all students get a 'rank' out of his/her class, her grade, and I think the school. Because of the schools' size being in top 20 is quite an honor.
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From what I understand it's because they take education very seriously over there.  I heard that once that some children study for hours at a time.  They spend most of their adolescence studying to get into a university.
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http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education...
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China (listen (help·info); Traditional Chinese: 中國; Simplified Chinese: 中国; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó; Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo; Tongyong Pinyin: Jhōngguó) is a geographical region in East Asia and Central Asia. With over one-fifth of the world's population, the majority of China exists today as a state known as the People's Republic of China, but it also refers to a long-standing civilization comprising successive states and cultures dating back more than 4,000 years.\n\nWith one of the world's longest periods of mostly uninterrupted civilization and the world's longest continuously used written language system, China's history has been largely characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war, and violent imperial dynastic change. The country's territorial extent expanded outwards from a core area in the North China Plain, and varied according to its changing fortunes to include multiple regions of East, Northeast, and Central Asia. (The term "China proper" is used by some observers and historians to describe the core territory historically home to the majority Han Chinese, as opposed to lands associated later with China such as what is now Xinjiang.) For centuries, Imperial China was also one of the world's most technologically advanced civilizations, and East Asia's dominant cultural influence, with an impact lasting to the present day.\n\nBy the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, China's political, economic, and military influence declined relative to the growing regional power of Japan and the influence of Western powers. The imperial system in China ended with the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) under Sun Yat-sen in 1912; however, the next four decades of ROC rule were marred by warlord control, the Second Sino-Japanese War during which the Empire of Japan occupied large parts of China, and the Chinese Civil War which pitted Chinese Nationalists against the Communist forces.\n\nAfter its victory in the Chinese Civil War, the Communist Party of China under Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, forcing the Nationalists to retreat and relocate the ROC government to the island of Taiwan, which it had governed since the end of World War II. Since then, the ROC has maintained administrative control over Taiwan, the Pescadores Islands, several islands off the coast of Fujian province including Kinmen and the Matsu Islands, and some islands in the South China Sea.\n\nHome to one of the world's oldest and most complex civilizations, China boasts a history rich in over 5,000 years of artistic, philosophical, and political advancement. Though regional differences provide a sense of diversity, commonalities in language and religion connect a culture distinguished by such universally significant contributions as Confucianism. Credited with shaping much of Chinese thought, Confucianism was the official philosophy throughout most of Imperial China's history, and mastery of Confucian texts provided the primary criterion for entry into the imperial bureaucracy.\n\nWith the rise of Western economic and military power beginning in the mid-19th century, however, non-Chinese systems of social and political organization gained adherents in China. Some of these would-be reformers totally rejected China's cultural legacy, while others sought to combine the strengths of Chinese and Western cultures. In essence, the history of 20th Century China is one of experimentation to find a new system of social, political, and economic organization that would allow for the reintegration of the nation in the wake of dynastic collapse.\n\nChinese art has varied throughout its ancient history, divided into periods by the ruling dynasties of China and changing technology, as well as influenced by great philosophers, teachers and religion. Early forms of art in China were made from potte
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ACS (International) Singapore\nThe Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) has shaped the lives of hundreds of thousands of students since its founding in 1886.\n\nSubject Offerings \nhttp://www.acsinternational.com.sg/docs/subjectofferings.pdf
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School is the most stressful thing in a child's life. It is their only goal in life. Actually, they have no life, because they spend all of their time studying. Without good grades, students can't get in to a good school. But when, 100 students are competing for 20 spots, they have no choice but to study and try to outdo the others. If you're not #1, you're nothing. That's what's it's like in China. Students who want to do well don't have any friends because first of all, they have no time to socialize, and second, if they study together, they are helping the other person--their study partner does a better job on a test. Tests make or break you. Schools test on every subject from science to English. It's just terrible because all Chinese students are becoming bookworms with major social problems.
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The American education system works very well for the US but it lacks something many other countries have. And that is GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. Italian schools for example don't aim much at providing us with a specific school target (as it happens in the US) but the purpose is that of providing each student with the widest possible knowledge, although pointing at specific sectors at university. On top of that, many countries like India, China and Japan have old traditions in family education and lots of philosophy, while in the US superficiality rules. All this gives guys from those countries a higher capacity to look into problems, often with a multilateral approach, that Americans normally don't have. On top of that, Americans educated in the US normally have such a level of specialization that they end up by following only their professional field, rather than gaining a general, wider knowledge, which sooner or later comes useful also at work. This makes US people appear less intelligent than others, even if in actual fact the problem is not the IQ but rather the way they use the same amount of intelligence. Chinese, Japanese, Indians, see much more in depth than Americans, while Americans always go for Easier, Simpler, More Straighforward solutions, which are not always the best solutions. In a word, they are rarely able to work out solutions that are as complex and efficient as those that an Indian, Chinese or others would do. (See war in Iraq for example. It was tackled in such a naive way that the results are before the eyes of the whole world. And those plans were made by the people who are supposed to be the best US have on hand. Even if they did it only for Oil, the plan would still look tremendously naive).
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top 4 universities in china, 2 in beijing...2 in shanghai\n\nbeijing: #1 Qinghua (sometims tsinghua) University and #2 Beijing University\nshanghai: #3 Fudan University and #4 Shanghai Jiaotong University\n\ni've attended Beijing University and Jiaotong University.  both great schools.  i especially loved Beijing University.
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You may find a good answer on :\n\nhttp://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm\n\nGood luck
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HI, well that all depends. What qualifications do you have? And what do you want to do in Australia? Do you want to continue teaching? If so what age range? How long have you been in China?
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From what I have seen, American High schools pale in comparison to schools in other developed countries.  What we seem to be about a school behind.  Our college is their high school, out high school is their middle school.\n\nWhen I went to Europe on an exchange, the students in 10th grade were learning calculus and they had to take like 4 languages.  At home I was taking geometry and one measly Spanish class.\n\nAnd Asia is a WHOLE different story.  Their 5 year olds are smarter than American high schoolers.\n\nI think its a bit of a shame, but our government is so scared to single people out or leave people behind.  Everyone has to have an equal opportunity.  And I am all for equal opportunity, but if a student refuses to take advantage of his opportunity, then screw him.  Our laws keep "dumbing down" the curriculum and forcing homogeneous grouping (no smart kids classes and dumb kids classes) so the motivated kids get bored and aren't challenged, and the lazy kids don't do any better because they don't want to and they have no intent of trying any harder.  Schools can't kick out students who don't want to learn, and teachers get put in the middle of the whole mess.\n\nAnyway, I will stop ranting now...