The Comparison of Family Education between China and Western Countries

  Fourthly, the focal point of education is different.

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  What the China’s traditional culture grasps is life and morals, so the Chinese value life and the human relations extremely. Therefore, the Chinese parents have regarded the morals as the highest value orientation in the education. Especially, in the Chinese mind, “the good child” is a child who is obedient and sensible at first, aims at the community, liked at first sight. In that case, the guardian trains the child to practice the moral culture, cultivates mental poise, self-restraining, emphasizes reservation, and the idea of social rank. The main connotation of Chinese family education is “the mercy, righteousness, the ritual, the wisdom, the honesty, loyalty, forgiveness”, and the Chinese child was taught by historical story, ethics, loyalty, filial piety and integrity when he was young. The child was influenced by the ice-cold moral law and the rules and regulations, and studied 3-character classic and Younger brother Cuckoo since childhood.

Yet, what the western culture grasps is knowledge, the family mainly arouses the child’s the curiosity about and the imagination of nature. As we all know knowledge creation comes from curiosity. So parents by making children interested in the nature and fairy stories, let the children have a broader imagination space, so as to help the knowledge creation. In addition, they regard the psychological development as the highest direction, so the cultivation of child's interest and the creativity is the main point of Western family education.

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  Fifthly, the difference in proportion between family and the individual. www.jianli8.com

  The China’s traditional culture takes the family as the focus, pays great attention to individual responsibility and duty. This is performed in the value orientation: (1) family education function is strengthened. In the Chinese tradition of society, family shoulders many kinds of social functions. It has the bright characteristics of building the country and family with concerted efforts. But the children education is a part of family life's extension, so the home education's vital role also lies in achieving the goal“the family education is lasting”. It is a tool with which the positions of family  and social politics are maintained and developed family culture is presented and carried forward. (2) Education takes family benefit as the main value orientation. “Bring honor to ancestors”, “the illustrious family status” are scholar's goal to pursue . The personal interest and the family benefit are merging into one organic whole. It is closely related to “the view of immotality” of Chinese traditional culture. 简历下载

  The western culture takes individual as a focus paying great attention to individual freedom and right. And in education, the westerners’ place the educated in prominent status, with the emphasis of the cultivation of individuality. The Individuals standard and family transforms are closely correlative. This educational tradition was established, which experienced “Renaissance movements” from the 14th to the 16th centuries, “Franch bourgeois ideology Enlightenment” in the 18th century as well as the “ideological trends” and so on at the beginning of 20th century. Then, Rousseau initiated the natural and free education. Dewey proposed that education is growth,  education is life, individual is the main body who grasps his own experience construction. But the individual standard is not equal to individualism, does not equate itself to taking the child as the center. The family needs the individual of rich individuality, who can tame himself, control himself, surpass himself, a modern man with perfect moral quality, healthy individuality . Instead of a selfish and dependent utilitarian. 简历

  Sixthly, the cultivation of independent consciousness is different.

  The Chinese guardians think the value of education is studying for entering a higher school, they only ask the child to study attentively, without bothering about other things. So the childern’s consciousness of all-round development is faint. So the child has no opportunity to develop and enhance his qualities in many aspect. The Chinese parents place their hopes on the child, the sense of responsibility for education is overloaded. The unsuitable extending of guardian role, the replacements of the child to arrange everything in daily life, to stipulate the study content. and to settle the development direction. Therefore, the child becomes all dependent individual, lacks independent character. It causes the child to be able to do nothing but knowledge study. The meticulous concern, helps to form the habit of relying on others. So when facing the storm, he is unable to do anything. Being unable to get the help, he will blame everyone and everything but himself.

  The western parents pay great attention to raising children's independent consciousness since childhood. In the Western family, you may see the child addresses his visit relatives and friend by name, bolds expresses his own opinion, participates in family discussion as adults do. He solves some problems all by himself. The parents do not reprove the child casually. They leave the child an opportunity of undergoing a process of tempering. All this enables the child to dare to rush, dare to do, dare to take a risk, dare to display himself. Let the child learn how to make a living since childhood, have the strong physique,the quality of bearing hardships and standing hard work, and good psychological quality, thus moves towards life with perfect composure. Such independent individuality causes the child to pay great attention to individual ability and the struggle when he moves towards the society.Seventhly, the difference in emotional education and corporal punishment.