Last week, when we mentioned education and media in the class, Gina asked how many people got media education in the high school or middle school, i saw a lot of people raised their hand, which then i thought if i ask this question in
Last week, when we mentioned education and media in the class, Gina asked how many people got media education in the high school or middle school, i saw a lot of people raised their hand, which then i thought if i ask this question in China university, maybe no one would raised their hand. Thinking about the difference of the education system of China and America, i easily figure out the why people have totally different attitude toward media. In China, our education system is what called “ examination- oriented education system,” which focus more on exam rather than really learn the practical knowledge. As China has such a huge population, while we have limited education resources, it is extremely difficult for students to get into the university if they did not work hard. For example, in 2014, we have more than ten million students competed in the college entrance examination, which is a exam, contained 9 subjects, for the students in whole China and held once a year, in order to get a seat in universities. With such amount of students, the university could only select students by their score of the college entrance examination. Therefore, students have no choice but only work on the 9 subjects the exam required, which are Chinese, math, english, physics, chem
istry, biology, politics, history and geology. Under such education system, students become care only about the right and wrong, and used to follow the authority, which make them easier to get higher score.
After experienced such education system, people becom
e easily absorb what the media pass to them and become afraid to question the media. Therefore, without the questioning, the media will mislead the society and release some absurd news or statements. Moreover, even the media is surrounding us, most people in China have a sense that media is far away from them, which means they think they can do nothing for correcting the media or regulate the media is not their responsible. We are so used to follo