A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Traditional Educational Thoughtand Western Educational Thought-- Taking Chinese High School Education as an Example

Abstract

The education transformation and pattern have been enriched by global modernization. It generally promotes and bringsopportunities to the strategies and practice of internalizing education. Meanwhile, it improves the school’s runninglevel of international education. These are the intrinsic needs for the development of education and the inevitablerequirements of the development of the times. There are advocates of Western educational concepts who hold blindpursuits. Every education mode has imperfections; some aspects are usually sacrificed based on the background theory.This essay has comprehensively reviewed the educational thoughts and pedagogy of student learning in China. It hasdiscussed the theoretical background of Chinese and Western educational thoughts and the features, development,advantages, and disadvantages of Chinese high school education and international high school education in China. Bycomparing these two types of high school education evaluation systems, teaching system, and curriculum system, itcan be seen that they reflect different educational thoughts, which have their strengths and weaknesses. Based on theanalysis, it is significant to discover that two education systems can learn from each other to create a more effectivelearning environment. Ultimately, it is hoped that this study could give possible solutions and prospects for the future ofChinese high school education.