U.S. vs Asian School System

He asks, “If American education is so tragically inferior, why is it that this is still the country of innovation?” Looking back at the regular Japanese school week, we find that not much attention is brought to music or art. Asians might start to loose control of the masses. In the article “we should cherish our children’s freedom to think”, Kie Ho provides a critical question. The students who do cannot or will not participate in the hard curriculum will now have a choice to develop their creative side. places a much bigger emphasis on creativity and choice. It is effort that separates successful students from the unsuccessful students. An important characteristic that the U. Americans complain about the core subject education. We always look at things from our conditioned point of view. The eastern ideas of pressure could be used as a catalyst for results in the U. As we saw in the previous passage, serious pressure is put on the Asian student. Japanese students attend school six days a week. A third grade Japanese school week consists of eight hours of Japanese, five of arithmetic, three of science, social studies and physical education, two hours of music and art.