Education system comes from the culture, education has different meaning in different
culture. Same like that, education system in different areas is quite different. There are two
kinds of education system in the world are easy to make a comparison. One of them is my
country China—Asia, the other one is Canada—North America. They are two typical kinds of
education system in the world and they have different purpose of education. As the result,
the students in these areas have different learning schedule and future work.
First, pre—university preparation focus on different things, China is focusing on exam and
Canada is focusing on personal ability. In China, The most important thing is exam. When
students graduate from primary school, middle school and high school, they have to take an
important exam. The school which they will enter is basic on grades that they get in the
exam. Good grades mean good school. All of the students study hard because they need to
enter a good school. Then, in this school they can get good education for next important
exam. From these, we can find the purpose of education system in China is for exam. In
Canada, students don’t have to take that exam after they graduate. They only need to send a
request to the school and finish something that the school asks. Then they can enter it. All
schools are chosen by personal wishes. Canadian students don’t have to study hard for the
exam. They have more free time than Chinese students and can do something they want
Now we can see the purpose of education system in Canada is for personal ability.
After we graduate from high school, we enter the higher level school—university. In the
university, we will learn the skills for preparing our future, but we also have different time
plan in this term. In China, we have to take the semester year by year from the beginning of
the university