China has a long history of education. The education system is being consummated gradually. While the UK is typical representative in western educator, who owns more advanced education system. We’ll analyse the education systerm of Britain and China from similarities and differences based on the visit to shool and the interview we’ve done before.
Because of the same purpose of school education, there are some similarities in the education of Britain and China.
1. Both in Britain and China, school education includes primary education, secondary education and higher education.
2. Emphasize the development of students on Educational philosophy.
3. Emphasize teachers’ professional development and continuing education in teachers’ training.
Because of different history, culture and economic strength, China and Britain have different education ways, mainly reflected in educational thinking and educational methods.
1.the different thinking: China attaches importance to the knowledge-education, but Britain attaches importance to the capacity-education. China focuses on the importance of knowledge education. Teachers teach students whatever textbooks have; the examination cannot break away from textbooks. But the British teachers focus on capacity-education, they stress that the students can familiar with the things and phenomena what they want to know about, then under teachers’ instruction and guidance, they can find the right answers and discover new knowledge. British teachers’ pay more attention to train the children’s sense of independence, and let them to take the initiative.
2. The different method: the two countries have different ways to achieve its goal in education, for instant, the British students learn more subjects than the Chinese students while the Chinese student have to study in school for longer time; the class generally consists of more than 60 students, twice of the British.
3. The difference also reflects in the center of the class. The teaching class in China takes teachers as the center. In lectures and discussions, students prefer to the former. Students hope teachers can teach all of the knowledge about one theme, but not willing to be asked questions by teachers. The teaching class in Britain takes students as the center. Teach and learn is decided by student at large extent.
