Gość: przemek IP: 66.99.49.* 19.11.02, 18:50 just wondering........... Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś czytaj wygodnie posty
Gość: Reme Re: what do you think about education in USA? IP: 131.156.255.* 19.11.02, 18:57 In my opinion, American students are generally nowhere as knowledgeable as Polish students, one exception being their familiarity with high-tech devices. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
lockheed_rumsfeld Answer! 19.11.02, 21:22 Public schools are....no comment. Every child whose parents are wealthy enough to pay for private schools has a chance to be well educated! Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: Prezes Re: what do you think about education in USA? IP: *.ces.clemson.edu 19.11.02, 22:51 Gość portalu: przemek napisał(a): > just wondering........... It is a very broad topic and not easy to tackle in a very limited space we have. As far as K-12 education goes it is basically one size fits all (there are no vocational schools in the US) approach which has its huge drawbacks. Most of high school graduates in the US have less knowledge than their Polish piers (those who graduated from a liceum), but they may have acquired some other relevant skills, which are rarely taught in Polish high schools. Most of good high schools are private, but there are very good public high schools, although they are quite rare. What might be interesting for you is that catholic schools are usually considered to be very good and are in big demand even among non-catholics. Perhaps it is a matter of a better discipline, I am not quite sure. As far as universities concerned it also depends. There are those which are considered to be among the best in the world and there are academically poor schools including also religious "universities" in which academic standards are secondary to the official ideology. There are however some nationwide accreditation criteria to make sure that at least a certain minimum is met. I think that undergraduate students in the US have much more flexibility as far as what they want to do during their four year stay at a university than they have in Poland. On the other hand the students here are not treated as adults, but as big children who require constant attention from the part of their parents (they get report cards every semester), teachers and administration. The scenes of a freshmen class arriving on campus with their parents carrying their belongings for them to a dormitory are really funny and strange for someone who studied in Poland. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś
Gość: krecha Re: what do you think about education in USA? IP: *.hwr.Arizona.EDU 19.11.02, 23:41 It is impossible to give a meaningful answer to this question. It is as if someone asked "what do you think about education in Europe?" There are good public schools and bad public schools. Good private schools and bad ones. In the end, what you learn depends on your attitude towards school and learning, not on where you went to school. Odpowiedz Link Zgłoś