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Higher Education in America.
There is evidence that even incomplete university study gives a person better career prospects than none at all. So, it is accepted that the benefits of a university career are useful.
All this effort in America’s higher education is very expensive. Some of the costs come from fees and benefactions, particularly towards research, but most have to be paid from public funds.
Parents favor big expenditures on higher education; a wider public opinion favors them for idealistic and cultural reasons, and because of the supposed value of education as an investment by society.
The first universities were developed by private charitable organizations. The private universities are still very important, and most of the best-known institutions, like Harvard, Yale and Princeton, are private.
Most of the principal state universities have between 10, 000 and 30, 000 students, and some have increased rapidly in the past few years.
Private universities and colleges are generally smaller, and although they are more numerous than public institutions they have a smaller total number of students than those in public institutions.
The private colleges vary very much in standards and reputation, from the world-famous and select to the cranky and the obscure①. The best known of all is Harvard.
There are also many junior colleges to which students may be admitted at the end of their high school career, providing only the first two years of university work.
For the most part Americans think that there’s some advantage in attending one of the better-known private institutions, in spite of the higher cost, rather than a state university.
However, testate universities are becoming increasingly important, and some of them, particularly in the Midwest have a reputation practically equal to that of the private ones.
Almost every state by now has several university institutions directly under the authority of the state government.
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美国的高等教育。
有证据表明，即使是不完整的大学学习也能给人带来更好的职业前景。所以，人们公认大学生涯的好处是有用的。
美国高等教育的所有这些努力都非常昂贵。部分费用来自收费和捐赠，特别是研究费用，但大部分必须由公共基金支付。
父母倾向于在高等教育上投入大量资金；更广泛的公众舆论出于理想主义和文化的原因，也因为教育作为一种社会投资的假定价值而支持他们。
第一批大学是由私人慈善组织发展起来的。私立大学仍然非常重要，大多数最著名的机构，如哈佛、耶鲁和普林斯顿，都是私立的。
大多数主要的州立大学有10，000到30，000名学生，有些在过去几年里迅速增加。
私立大学和学院一般都比较小，虽然比公立机构多，但学生总数比公立机构少。
私立大学的标准和声誉千差万别，从世界著名的精选大学到古怪的默默无闻的大学。最著名的是哈佛。
还有许多专科学校，学生在高中生涯结束时可能会被录取，只提供大学工作的前两年。
大多数美国人认为，尽管费用较高，但上一所更知名的私立大学比上州立大学更有优势。
然而，州立大学正变得越来越重要，其中一些大学，尤其是中西部的大学，几乎与私立大学齐名。
到目前为止，几乎每个州都有几所大学机构直接隶属于州政府。
Second,as for theaspect about the purpose of education,America Education attachs a littleimportance to the study on basic knowledge but thinks highly of the cultivationof creativity, while in China,education pays more attention to the basicknowledge and ignores the cultivation of students’creativity and thinkingability.Therefore,in America students who get low grades tend to have highability while in China students who get high grades don’t have enough abilityto adapt to the development of society.
Third,concerning the condition in class between China and America,we candraw a conclusion that the class in China pays attention to discpline while theclass in America pays attention to humans right.On the one hand,China Educationis good at giving a conclusion to students and chinses teachers will try theirbest to help students with solving all the problems put forward fromstudents.But in America’class,teachers are used to giving students somespiration to make them think more and more problems by themselves.On the otherhand,in chinese class,if students disagree with teachers’opinions,they will becritized by teachers,but in America’class students will be praised if they putforward new views which are differnt from their teachers’.
Fourth,I think it is the most important aspect which can basically pointout the root difference between China Edcation and America Edcation.It is aboutthe difference in the examination.USA examination often offers an openenvironment to students to finish their exam so long as they hand in theiranswer paper within the limiting time.But in China,when faced with anexam,chinese students always feel nervous as if there are beasts in front ofthem.And in China the purpose of examination is just to test out students’abilitywhile American test aims to find the problem,its existing gaps in order tofacilitate development.
Fifth,about the difference on establishments of curricula andspecialty,American education aims at adapting for society demand,theyexplicitly stipulate three big functions:ducation’service for the establishmentof specialty curriculum is to meet the social need and set up specialcurriculum or specialty which the society needs.In China’s universities,duringquite long period of time ,the establishment of specialty curriculum lacks thechange and could not follow social demand.In the latest few years,the majorityof Chinese universities all started to pay attentio to the transformation andrenewal of specialty curriculum so as tomeet the need of society.
Last,in general,the chinese children arenot allowed to take part in the real social activities but in America thestudents can take part in every activity they want;that is to say,Americanstudents can choose activities to participate in by themseleves.It is said thatthe children in America start to take part in the real activity once they leaveto school.For example,an 8-year-old boy can help other with washing clothes bywhich they can receive at least 8 dollars.Also,those children can play somemusical instruments for the rich to earn some money which they usually use tohold some activities.All in all,in America ,children have all kinds of chancesto contact with social environment.From the point of their view,they thinkeducation is equal to the life.But on the contrary,what chinese students onlydo is to bury themselves into study,which results in their shortage of outdoorability even creativity to adapt the development of society in future.
Through these kinds of comparison,maybe wecan make sense of the reasons why America becomes so strong.A power of acountry not only lies in its economy but also its education.That is to say,education is an important mean to creat more and more excellent people to makethem devote their power to strengthen the country.By comparing,we have to admitthat there have been many imperfections in our system of education.Our countryneeds improvement and the development and our economy needs talent people,so wecan draw a conclusion through comparison that it is high time for our countryto improve our system of education and in the way of going ahead,imitation andinnovation is in need.Only when our country modestly learn from other countriesto take in their advantages in education can our country becomes really strong.
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