Education of British & Taiwan

According to what we’d learned in class, British education system - Rote learning has been popular , but today’s fashion goes for “child-centred” education .

To be more specific , to encourage children’s individual characters ,creative ideas will be the first , primary goal on education .

Take my country Taiwan for example, rote learning still existed in our education system and I think most of Asian pupils are used to it to study nowdays .

In addition ,Taiwanese who was borned before 1990,we had been taught by punishment by teachers .And the stresses which sourced from our parents because they asked teacher to do it if we couldn’t achieve the expectance .

Sounds horrible right? But the real horrible thing is we are used to studied by punishment, and just study step by step and seek the famous universities ,but without thinking what we are interest or what we really want .

However, this system has worked for a long long time and hard to change it .Finally we educate many adult whose job always just satisfy their family.

Of course we cannot ignore this old-fashioned method is actually helpful on short-time memory such as current-tests –prepared .

So the smartest teachers can use the best way ,that is, mixed the two techniques to match the need of pupils .In conclusion, compare with British , we have a long way to go on our education system .(sigh)