A Comparative View On Family Education Between Ame

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A Comparative View on Family Education between America and China In a lifetime, family is the first school, in which parents are the first teachers for the children. Children are the hopes of a nation, and family education is the elementary education for children. There are many types of family education in the world and each of them shows distinctive features and is closely responsive to its culture, and American family education is the most famous one among them (Zhai 67). There are great differences in the concepts of education, aim of education, methods of education and contents of education between American family education and Chinese family education. Comparing the differences , the reasons and the results of family education between America and China will provide a satisfied family education method. Meanwhile, this comparison will also provide some helpful suggestions for family education in order to make children grow more healthily and roundly. Firstly, the different education concepts between America and China lead children to receive different education. In China, many parents only care about whether the children have a promising future, a good job, a good life or not. Based on these expectations, the majority of parents feel that their responsibility for their children is to create as good conditions as possible they can so that the children will not worry about anything in the future (Ai 27). Chinese parents would like to provide everything what they can for their children in the process of children’s growth. In short, they would like to sacrifice anything if their children can live better with their help. Therefore, in the process of children’s growth, the most important thing the parents concerning is to develop their children’s intellect, except for caring children’s daily life. In order to make their children have a good performance in

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