Chinese Education - is the West doing it wrong?

Name: Chinese Education - is the West doing it wrong?
Uploaded: 2019-07-03T15:52:30Z
Duration: 8 min 2 s
Description: We, in the West, often like to talk about how futuristic, progressive and advanced our educational system is. We like to look down upon the seemingly inhumane Asian style and proclaim that it lacks creativity, forgets about individualism and point to mental health. However, are there maybe things it does better? Could we learn from it? This talk is about exactly that.

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Baiquan Zhang |

TEDxGrenaaGymnasium

• August 2018

We, in the West, often like to talk about how futuristic, progressive and advanced our educational system is. We like to look down upon the seemingly inhumane Asian style and proclaim that it lacks creativity, forgets about individualism and point to mental health. However, are there maybe things it does better? Could we learn from it? This talk is about exactly that.

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