How does it strike you that so many students of the world know more about the history, geography, laws, (cont)

Question

taxation of the USA than so many of the students of the USA?

Honestly, I don't believe it is a teacher thing. After all, what is to stop a student from learning ...?

Answer 1

I wonder that myself. I'm an American, born and bred, and I know all of the things you mentioned in your question. I think that the generation in school now has such ready access to a vast computer library that they don't need to know anything for themselves. They just have to look it up online. They don't even have to open a book anymore.

Plus, when I was in school (not so long ago--I'm only 30), the teachers made sure you knew everything you needed to know. Nowadays, students can't be held back because it would make them feel bad. I kid you not.

Answer 2

What is to stop a student from learning? Their parents.

Students with parents who are absent or uninvolved tend to learn only what they are forced to learn, because they do not have anyone stressing the importance of education.

However, the schools fail the students because in America, we should have a deep understanding of our country, and the teachers are partly responsible (the schools are the administrators who write up the curiculum the teachers are the ones who teach that curiculum). Teachers are underpaid, and that shows in their work. SOME teachers go that extra mile to educate, others just teach what is in front of them.

It strikes me as very sad and pathetic when a person from another country can recite our National Anthem and tell us where it came from, who wrote it and when, yet most adults (even well educated adults) do not know the words to it much less anything else about it.

It is an embarassment. That is how it strikes me.

Answer 3

Students nowadays don't seem to be motivated enough to learn the basics let alone learn anything extra. The real question is "why"?

Part of the cause would have to be the responsibility of too many in the educational system not wanting to make the kiddies "feel bad" about anything... like grades or failing. The idea that it didn't matter if you got the correct answer as long as you "felt good" about your answer is ridiculous. You can't fail anyone because it would be too emotionally devastating to them.

Some of the problem is parents not doing their job as parents to get their children to learn. Some of the youth today get drawn into gangs and other groups that convince them to put their motivation to things other than education. There is also the problem in some ethnic areas that doing good in school is "acting white".

Foreign students have the motivation to learn as much as they can about the US since, for a lot of the world, the US is still looked at as some sort of a brass ring and moving here is one of their goals in life. Obviously, If they plan to move to the US, learning as much about the country , as well as laws, would be beneficial.

Answer 4

No, its not the "teacher situation", nor "money" situation, its home life and peer pressures and all that...Social economics, I beleive its called.

Those who studied beside me, I wondered about that, because they didnt get good grades, yet they had ample opportunity as myself to absorb the knowledge as I had.

But, then I realized that they 'hung around and took dope', thier parents didnt care about them at all and let them do this, or beat them or neglected them some way...
They wanted to make trouble for everyone else, so that we would be "just as dumb" as they were, so there would be no competition, and they could claim that it was the "Teachers" who couldnt teach right...

Its all about individualism. Each person is responsible for thier own selves, what they do with thier lives, and how they can go about achieving it, to the fullest...

Of course, if you have no 'family framework' in order to guide you, it gets a bit harder, but, many men, who were orphans and also come from other social and economic backgrounds a lot harder than these youngsters today, can make it, then I have no doubt that they can make it also...

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 5

Well, here in Britain the only thing we've ever been taught about America is your trying to abolish slavery, albeit a few hundred years late, and the civil rights movement there.

I think it's only because you had so much more racism than any other developed country and the civil rights movement was so recent that we learn about it then.

Answer 6

Don't flatter yourself. Foreigners know more about the taxation of the USA? Who cares? Where do you get your information.

The reality is that if non-americans know more about america than american, it's because americans are in reality a bunch of uneducated idiots. Hell, we in the educated world know more about the whole world than americans. It's called education and some of us still have a decent one.

Answer 7

because we Filipinos STUDY american history, geography, laws, taxation while some people just take it for granted. it's like us studying english grammar, spelling, composition, etc. while some people don't feel the need to study what is naturally inherent.

Answer 8

People in other countries need to know all about the USA so that they will be able to talk to the American soldiers when we invade.

Answer 9

historic past as a results of fact geography is a long far greater good than historic past as a results of fact which you do not in elementary terms study places you may desire to benefit approximately climate substitute , flooding and and so on yet historic past is like your listening to memories.

Answer 10

what strikes me more is that USA students DON'T know much about life beyond their borders.