World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students by Yong Zhao

Author:Yong Zhao
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781452290928
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2012-06-25T14:00:00+00:00

When a society allows and encourages everyone, regardless of his class and occupation, to become an expert in their own way, it is certain that human potentials can be maximally realized, and consequently there is fertile soil for cultivating individuality. And more importantly, only in these soils can we cultivate children who can express their individuality and dare to follow their own ambitions and only then can they truly become “themselves.”4

What the Chinese find valuable in American education is a decentralized, autonomous system that does not have standards, uses multiple criteria for judging the value of talents, and celebrates individual differences. However, what the Chinese enthusiastically embrace is just what the Americans have been as enthusiastically trying to be rid of. Over the past few decades, America has been on the journey to centralize its education system, standardize its curriculum, and impose uniform practices. From Clinton’s Goals 2000 in the 1990s to Bush’s No Child Left Behind in the first decade of the 21st century, and now Obama’s Race to the Top, America education has been reformed. As the Common Core standards movement accomplishes its goal, America will have lost what the Chinese envy and admire.

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