[quote]Otep wrote:
[quote]Amiright wrote:
[quote]anonym wrote:
[quote]Aussie Davo wrote:
[quote]Gregus wrote:
Just like the MATH wiz in class. HE is good at math because of his Genetics, not because he got some secret math learning technique. [/quote]
Really? Oh right, it couldn’t possibly be that the “wiz” had overbearing parents who wouldn’t accept anything less then perfect… It couldn’t possibly be that he just put the work in and studied his ass off…[/quote]
“You doctor yet?”
“No, Dad, I’m twelve!”
“Talk to me when you doctor!”[/quote]
Pretty much… and I never understood hard work until I went to china a few years back in high school band. Those kids work hard in school because that’s the only way they will survive, change my outlook on education tbh.
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I was a guest teacher for a day at a high school English class in southern China last year. Towards the end of the class, one of the students asked me to tell him something about America. I said ‘Kids in America go to school for maybe 8 hours. They rarely do more than an hour of homework a day, until they’re in high school, when they might do two or three. Weekends are generally free. ‘Weekends’ include Saturday’
The kids just stared at me uncomprehendingly. Their school weeks start at 75 hours, if you include weekends.[/quote]
One of my research partners (an exchange student from India) said something similar to this. However, she mentioned that, in India, at least, students are not expected to hold down any sort of job unless it directly relates to their studies (internships OK, part-time delivery driver not so much). Their parents expect to support them to the best of their abilities through their entire academic careers (she is going for her doctorate) and that it is, in many cases, frowned upon to do work that doesn’t directly contribute to one’s education.
And, like the Family Guy quote I posted, many of them are pushed to max out their education levels in lucrative fields (medicine, law, and engineering were mentioned).
In the United States, you are definitely in the minority if you haven’t had SOME sort of job by the time you hit college (and it’s considered pretty weird unless you spent high school up to your ass in extracurricular activities and what not).
It’s really interesting how our mentality towards life and education is so different than theirs.