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I found some differences about Family education between Western countries and China. From these differences we also can see how they think differently about family education.

The emphasis of education is different

The Chinese parents lay emphasis on social enlightenment, ignore the growth of children. they often train the children under established forms , and lay down the broad road for their growth. The western parents provide the children a environment for growth resistant to them, and foster their tenacious individuality and the good conduct, and they choose their idea and way of cultivation according to the change of society and the characteristic of children physical and mental.

The focal point of education is different.

What the China's traditional culture grasps is life and morals, Therefore, the Chinese parents have regarded the morals as the highest value orientation in the education. Especially, in the Chinese mind, "the good child" is a child who is obedient and sensible at first, aims at the community, liked at first sight. In that case, the guardian trains the child to practice the moral culture, cultivates mental poise, self-restraining, emphasizes reservation, and the idea of social rank. The main connotation of Chinese family education is "the mercy, righteousness, the ritual, the wisdom, the honesty, loyalty,

forgiveness", and the Chinese child was taught by historical story, ethics, loyalty, filial piety and integrity when he was young. The child was influenced by the ice-cold moral law and the rules and regulations, and studied 3-character classic and Younger brother Cuckoo since childhood.

However, what the western culture grasps is knowledge, the family mainly arouses the child's the curiosity about and the imagination of nature. As we all know knowledge creation comes from curiosity. So parents by making children interested in the nature and fairy stories, let the children have a broader imagination space, so as to help the knowledge creation. In addition, they regard the psychological development as the highest direction, so the cultivation of child's interest and the creativity is the main point of Western family education.

2.2.4 The cultivation of independent consciousness is different

The Chinese guardians think the value of education is studying for entering a higher school, they only ask the child to study attentively, without bothering about other things. So the childern's consciousness of all-round development is faint. So the child has no opportunity to develop and enhance his qualities in many aspects. It causes the child to be able to do nothing but knowledge study.

The western parents pay great attention to raising children's independent consciousness since childhood. In the Western family, you may see the child addresses his visit relatives and friend by name, bolds expresses his own opinion, participates in family discussion as adults do. He solves some problems all by himself. The parents do not reprove the child casually. They leave the child an opportunity of undergoing a process of tempering. All this enables the child to dare to rush, dare to do, dare to take a risk, dare to display himself. Let the child learn how to make a living since childhood, have the strong physique,the quality of bearing hardships and standing hard work, and good psychological quality, thus moves towards life with perfect composure. Such independent individuality causes the child to pay great attention to individual ability and the struggle when he moves towards the society.

Education method is different

The Chinese traditional education method is a type of education in which people repeat what the book says and imbue the child with it. It emphasizes mechanical memorizing. That is to say, the child receives the study. There is an ancient proverb. If the book is read hundreds of times, its meaning is shown naturally". Therefore, the Chinese guardians most like seeing the child sit in front of the desk, either reciting with his head wagging, or bending over the desk

doing exercises. The eyes do not leave the books; the hands do not leave the books. "Dig into books of saints oblivious of what is happening outside". Load the stomach with ancient's knowledge and sage's experience without knowing whether they can be digested or not.

The west emphasizes the child's "power of understanding". They like letting the child practise by himself, going to the nature, seeking the knowledge from life. Their study resides in many kinds of forms. The western family has the special cooking class, the hardwork class and the playroom. They do not think that play and study are conflicting with each other, and encourage the child to study outside, pay great attention to the child's ability to ponder. The parents usually lead the child in seeking the nature's mystery, help them know about the society. They carry out Dewey's "education is life", "school is society". They encourage the child to go to the library, the museum to read the books he is interested in, and participate in the social practice.