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THE VALUE OF EDUCATION

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•  By the phrase of an exceptional Frenchman writer, Victor Hugo; ‘ wherever a school opens, a prison closes’, we can realize how important education is. The knowledge is power and if a person possesses it, he can change the world and succeed in his life.

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• So, we are wiling to talk about education around the world. We chose one country (two for Europe) by each continent in order to understand how education system works.

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• These are the six countries in alphabetical order.

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Australia

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China

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Cuba

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Finland

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France

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Kenya

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 When Children Start School?

• Finland, China (in small areas)   ➨           
  7 years old

• Cuba, China (big cities), France ➨

                                           6 years old

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• Australia  ➨

5 years old

Holidays

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CHINA; 13 weeks.

FRANCE; almost 17.5 weeks.

AUSTRALIA; every 10 weeks have 2 – week holidays.

ØKENYA; students attend school for three terms, with 1- month holidays at the end of each one.

FINLAND; almost 16 weeks.

We can see that children in France are the ‘laziest’, when those in China are fed up with the idea of school. 

Duration Of The Lesson

• From these six countries, Chinese students have to turn their alarm clock off the earliest, because school starts at 7:30. From the other side, Australian students have to wake up the latest of all, because the school’s bell rings at 9 o’clock in the morning.

• As far as the time students finish school is concerned, the Finish are the most rested (they finish school at 1 or 2 o’clock, depending on the region). Chinese students return home around 5 o’clock.

Subjects

• CUBA; it seems that children here love music more than anywhere else, because they are taught music 8 hours per week.

• KENYA; students are taught their native language, Kiswahili and also English, mathematics, physics, music, history, geography, political and religious education.

• CHINA; In China is given high emphasis to Chinese history, language, civilization, mathematics, contemporary achievements and team lessons.

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• FRANCE; primary school’s lessons include basic knowledge of reading, writing and mathematics. Secondary education includes French language, literature, history and geography, mainly French, two foreign languages, physics, chemistry, biology, music, arts and political education. 

• FINLAND; It pays particular attention to English language. The knowledge of at least one foreign language is very important, because Finnish language doesn’t look like the rest of the European languages. Moreover, children get in touch with other foreign languages via watching some films on TV. The main advantage of the schools in Finland is the wide usage of computers and generally the revolutionary methods in the educational process.

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• AYSTRALIA; Australia follows a similar strategy to that of Finland about learning foreign languages. This happens because a big range of different languages, more than 260, are spoken there. Furthermore, Australian government intends to integrate the programming lesson into primary schools.

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• Also, teachers’ dedication in Finland, as well as in France, to some activities, which aim at the increase of the perceptiveness, of the imagination, of the making- arguments ability and of other social skills, is great.

Facilities

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• Finland; Finnish schools have one of the smartest structure; lots of open places and walls made of glass. Also, there’s a plenty of libraries and computers. Inside the schools, the cleanliness is so exemplary that everything seems new. The classrooms have big plasma screens, 200 L fish-farms with tropical fish, kitchen with the whole equipment, audio and video media, air conditioning and a big variety of plants. A dozen of sewing machines, welding workshops, woodworking tools, theatres and restaurants.

• AUSTRALIA; Schools have almost the same structure. High schools have sections of physics and chemistry, gyms, stadiums. What’s more, some of them include swimming pools and other rooms for artistic courses (woodworking, painting, sculpture, photography). A remarkable thing is that there are also cooking halls with all the necessary equipment, like ovens and fridges. At primary schools there are computer labs, whereas students bring their own laptops in the secondary education. 

• FRANCE; Schools here don’t have many differences with the other ones. They are enormous and have football ,basketball, volley and badminton fields. They offer free food for students in restaurants, too.

• CHINA;  Unfortunately, most of the schools don’t have central heating, but only those in Northern China. Another strange fact is that  all schools are surrounded by gates made of iron, which are always closed and they open only when school finishes.

• KENYA; The schools in Kenya have usually the poorest infrastructure of the other five countries, while at the same time, their characteristic is the shortage of clean water and of electricity. Despite these, we have to mention that Kenya has got some schools that provide all the comforts to the students. 

Special Clues

• FRANCE; It is a fact that the majority of young people do not believe in God( they are godless). In France, people aren’t well-known for their faith in God and they don’t often go  to church, too. So, the students aren’t taught the subject of religious education and this is absolutely reasonable.

• CUBA; The education system is based on three basic principles;

1) obedience( to themselves)

2) hard work

3) love to the native country

Children learn about communism and its values at school from a young age.

• AYSTRALIA; Teachers never go on strikes. It is obligatory for students to wear their common uniforms even for the sport clothes, as well.

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• KENYA; It is obligatory for girls to wear long skirts, too.

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• FINLAND; If you visit a school in Finland, you will observe teenagers, but also little children being together at the same time, because students in Finland stay at the same school for nine years. In addition to this, primary schools’ students walk in the different classes while wearing socks, so the lesson becomes friendlier.

• CHINA; The schools of China are the least attractive, because students study for more than ten hours everyday. What is more, China has a very strict education system. Teachers knock their students with a ruler, made of wood, in the hands, for instance. 

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2)Vardia Christina

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