zz As Zhao notes, a key problem with a pure cognitive learning model is that it doesn't cater for all of the multiple intelligences. The result can be a class of students: high scores, low ability. The bureaucratic mandarin model that promoted such learning in traditional China, also had a big downside. Growing creativity, and culturing academic risk taking has enabled America, inspite of regular floggings in TIMMS and PISA, to develop more patents than anyother country. My thought is that it is
zz " .... what China wants is what America is eager to throw away - an education that respects individual talents, supports divergent thinking, tolerates deviation, and encourages creativity ... In the meantime, the U.S. has been trying hard to implement what China has been trying to be rid of . .."
grass is always greener on the other side... //shrug
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【在 g******s 的大作中提到】 : zz : " .... what China wants is what America is eager to throw away - an : education that respects individual talents, supports divergent thinking, : tolerates deviation, and encourages creativity ... In the meantime, the U.S. : has been trying hard to implement what China has been trying to be rid of . : .."