The Comparison of Family Education between China and Western Countries

   When American parents see the child fight, they will stand by. My younger uncle works in US. His child once came under attack, he said to the child: “Came under attack? Hit him!” Once my younger uncle returned to visit the family, and mentioned the matter about the child's fights, he said: “You should educate the child like this: “Who hits you, you will hit him.” “Can you instigate the child to mass fighting? Absolutely, that won’t do!” I expressed the intense opposition. 简历吧

   When the child is fighting, the Western teacher will also stand by, observing carefully and they do not stop usually unless there is the danger. Afterwards, they will talk with students, and analyse the gains and losses of fighting. If the student fight, so long as he reports to the teacher afterwards, this is OK, if not, even if he comes under attack, and is reasonable, he will also receive teacher's criticism and the penalty. www.jianli8.net

   About fight, Chinese parents and teachers are act as “ pacificator”, “judge”, American parents and the teachers are act as “teacher”. The thought of dealing with fightst in Chinese families, is based on the Confucianist idea of “frendly and farmonious relations are valued ”; That the American guardians may stand by, or “instigate” the child “to fight back”, is based on the ideal of maintaining the personal interest prominently, achieving and safeguarding individual rights and interests from any injuries ; China's family thinks it's all right if one stops to compromise, so beg as there's peace. The American thinks only individual rights and interests are protected and respected, then there will be the harmony in society and equality of each person.[ “the Difficult Problem of Child's Education,”  XiaoFeng, People's Military Doctor Publishing House, June 25th,2004]
  Next, education in managing money matters is different. 简历封面

  The Chinese gentleman does not care about fame and fortune. fixed the thinking type of being loyal to others causes the Chinese parents simply to not have the idea of financial transaction. In China, earning money to support one's family and managing the wealth are adult's matter. When having no money they can ask the parents for some. Even if after getting married, they can also do this. The Chinese parents always render economic assistance gratis to the children, and try every means to satisfy the children with the money, and indulge the child's excessive consuming desire. www.resume5.com

  In the West, especially in US, the education of financial transaction is one of the family educational branches. Therefore, the Western parents extremely focus this. They do not supply the money for the child regularly, but issue the child a fixed fund regularly. And they help the child to set up the correct consciousness of managing finances, foster a good habit of managing money matters, besides these, they also pay great attention to raising basic quality of managing money matters. The western parents teach the child to make plans for budget items, learn to spend money reasonably; They encourage the child to work outside to gain income by themselves; They educate the child to store up the wealth, not to spend money freely; They help the child learn to donate, help other people; They educate the child to be honest, have the self-respect facing money; They tell the child saving money is a virtue; And they teach the child to hold the opportunity of managing money matters and make the correct decision, and be ready to serve others. www.jianli8.com
  Lastly, religious thought and scientific education

  Although the Chinese culture begins with religion, we emphasize the scientific nature in education. The People's Republic of China’s compulsory Educational law stipulates explicitly that, education and religion must be separated. www.jianli8.net

  The western religious tradition still retains the formidable influence even in modern times. It permeats through each aspect of educational activities. It not only has the strong religious coloring, but also it entrusts Western education with the internal spiritual value. Because of this, the western missionary schools have had a great vogue. The parents also focus this spiritual belief religious very much in the home education. For example, they must thank God before eating, when doing anything, they must judge from the God's standard, and every weekend, all members of the family must go to the church to make the Mass, so as to, maintain the pure land of mind forever. Therefore, this intense religious idea often causes some educationalists to think religion education may be in harmony with each other.From what has been discussed above, we may see that either the Chinese tradition of family education or that of the Western family education tradition has its own strong points, they all take root in respective traditional cultural soil. At present, the undesirable phenomenon we meet in the family education lies mainly in the incorrect teaching method.[ http://bbs.diecheng.net/dispbbs.asp?boardid=22&ID=1326]