People's upbringing leaves a large mark on who they become in the world. Those who struggle may work hard to get what they want while those who have things handed to them may not know how to work at all. The upbringing that you had may also reflect on your school work and your ability to succeed in that setting. They have found proof that people test higher if they had to work for their livelihood in fields compared to those who don't especially from the East and the West side of the world. Western agriculture thinks in the "mechanical" mind, while Eastern agriculture is in the "skilled" mind. They have always been two ways of thinking out there that has been linked to different cultures that have evolved on the two sides of the Earth.
Western farmers think about how they are going to obtain more land to make more crops because they have the option of obtaining more land. Eastern farmers think about how they are going to increase the amount of product they can produce with the same amount of land because they don't have the ability to just go out and buy more land. Since this is the way that people have been doing things for several hundreds of years it is hard to break those patterns. We can see these trains of thought translating into schools. Students who know China are able to do better in math and understand the concepts at a much younger age then their American counterparts because of the way that we speak. English is one of the hardest languages to learn because there is no "sense" to it. In Chinese, there numbering system makes more logical sense allowing for students to learn the information quicker. Although, we can not change years of history, maybe we should look at what parts can we take from the Eastern world to improve the Western world.
No comments:
Post a Comment