XRS has a history of controversy, with one author claiming that it differs from other cram schools in the same way as training "special forces" and "militia". Now that XRS has entered the United States, it is common to think of American children as the "militia" class. This imaginary chain of disdain constitutes a kind of hidden script for our view of Chinese education, whether at home or abroad. But in fact, it has the possibility of rigidity and misleading.
Face a real risk, in fact, education is a utilitarian pursuit, the pursuit of once fall into this trap, so even if the quality of education also can cram, can constitute the burden of children, and even students for admission and deliberately to sign up to participate in all kinds of research, meeting with extra-curricular activities can also be a new normal. The only way to correct this tendency is to understand the true meaning of learning and education.
Burden, loose or liberalization of education itself is not necessarily is purpose, when a child is full of interest and enthusiasm for learning objects, even without any external force, he may be willing to also don't sleep about study diligently, and education after loosening of freedom is to make learners can use such a freedom to explore the motivation and enthusiasm.
We live in a world where politics and economics are constantly changing and technology is constantly changing, so what we learn, and what we teach our children, is always out of date. To face a rapidly changing world, one must understand that the rules of the future, and the way we describe things, will be constantly updated. Compared to learn the rules of the established knowledge and fixed, more need to understand the new change and an ability to create new knowledge system, and in addition to face the future, children also need to face other people from different cultural and social, the face and their lives are in the same neighbours and strangers society but has a different way of life, the constant people in the face of new things to learn, in fact also is life's inevitable, and education should be prepared for the children, is the exploration and the ability to meet unknown, rather than a fixed point to recite. The most important thing is enthusiasm and enjoyment of learning itself, but too many children just lose enthusiasm in education.
When XRS, which is already listed on the New York stock exchange, announced that it was opening a campus in silicon valley, some commentators intuitively thought of cao dewang's "factory in America" and, of course, the BBC documentary "Chinese teachers in Britain" a few years ago. When Chinese education brands go abroad, they no longer only cause conflicts between the concepts of "exam-oriented education" and "quality-oriented education" in China. Now, they also add more comparisons with American education methods and attract more attention.
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Some news said that since the Chinese training industry entered the United States, many
If the Chinese cram school is simply regarded as the representative of China's exam-oriented education and the standard product of China's education, and opposed to the American education, it is likely to be a crude imagination of binary opposition, which is too simple and inconsistent with the facts, and does not help us to create a better education. More dangerously, it may allow us to continue pushing our children to become "special forces" and ignore other options.
Loose curriculum design in the United States or other European countries, in fact, may not be able to achieve quality education in many schools and students with unequal conditions of rich and poor, that exists in imagination. In fact, competition is fierce in the top American schools, and American parents are not always free. In terms of academic performance, we should compare the top students in the United States with the top students in the country, and not compare our relative excellence with those American students who may lack good learning conditions. We should know and consider that the African American and Hispanic groups in the United States suffer from many serious social disadvantages. No matter where it is, good learning is always possible by a combination of individual free exploration and adherence to rules of method, but it often requires the support of many social and material conditions at the same time.
Last year, the university of Chicago announced that undergraduate applications could no longer submit SAT/ACT scores, but only high school scores and self-presentation materials, such as video. The practice is said to be aimed at retraining and testing asian-american students, preventing standardized tests from fully identifying students' diverse abilities and crowding out opportunities for other groups, prompting a backlash from asian-american parents. Stereotypes have been created, but continuing to view them as the strength of the Asian community, or as the unalterable characteristics of Chinese children, has fallen into a long-held rigid path that does little to help the growth and survival of the Asian community.
The pursuit of education seems to be the obsession of Chinese families and the standard image of Chinese children in the United States. Andrew Yang, who is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, is adept at using the widely circulated image of a "tiger mother" who cultivates her children with strict academic requirements and talent to flaunt and ridicule himself. It can be said that this "theater" has existed for a long time, but the "famous Angle" XRS came onto the stage and caused a commotion overnight.
In fact, the education system has made considerable efforts to reduce the burden, and a large number of teachers in various schools and private institutions are pushing to make learning more creative and lively. Even in some high schools and training institutions famous for taking exams, we can see some efforts to promote such operation direction. Instead of saying that learning and thinking is simply a representative of exam-oriented education and mathematical chaos, it is better to say that learning and thinking is also eager for quality-oriented education. If we say "chinese-style education", if we go back to the earlier era, the talents of the new three or the old three are not the product of the so-called chinese-style exam-oriented education.
XRS continues the domestic BBS mode of "parents help" in foreign countries, and quickly draws Chinese parents in silicon valley into the official group, and conducts online and offline evaluation and registration in full swing. As one Chinese mother said in the article, once someone stands up to "watch the play" in the theater, all parents are afraid of falling behind, and the "theater effect" makes everyone sign up.
non-chinese children have also reported, but need to know that these cram schools are only limited to certain urban areas and class groups, and the Russian math class or Japanese math class is also popular, even more popular than the Chinese cram schools, there are.
