U.S. Teachers Just Won’t Tell Chinese Parents Where Their Kids Ranked Chinese families have always valued education, and their children’s excellent test scores are evidence of that. However, for Chinese parents, the scores themselves seem to be far less telling than the order of ranking. As a result, parents expect more from the first place than from 100 points. Schools do not rank students according to their test scores for the simple reason that test scores are private and no one has the right to release them to the public without their permission. So, “Where did you come in this exam?” became the first question many Chinese-American parents asked their children in private after seeing the test scores. Sammy, a Chinese-American child, is a warm-hearted, easy-going and helpful student, and his classmates and teachers like him very much, which is why he has received a good conduct award from the principal. However, Sammy’s mom was always a little worried because Sammy rarely got perfect scores on his test scores. If Sammy could answer his mom’s questions about “what’s your number one” and “who’s number one”, I’m sure she’d feel more comfortable knowing her enemy, but for the reasons mentioned at the beginning of this article, Sammy’s mom is not sure what’s going on. Unfortunately, due to the reasons mentioned at the beginning of the article, Sammy couldn’t give his mom a satisfactory answer. Tired of being persistently asked questions, Sammy, who was always polite, couldn’t help but say, “Why do you always ask the same questions? What does it matter to me who scored how many points or whether he is number one? Sammy’s math quiz was a big mistake. When Sammy lost fifteen points on a math test due to carelessness, Sammy’s mother used this as an excuse to find out from the teacher what Sammy’s rank in the class was, and what the so-called “excellence” meant. As usual, the teacher continued to praise Sami, saying “good boy”, and when it came to the test results, she was not impressed, saying “just be more careful next time”, and when it came to the ranking, she was serious, saying “really, he’s very good”, and as for Sami, she was not surprised. As for how Sammy should move up the ladder in the future, the teacher said sincerely, “I believe in him, his future can’t be wrong.” Eighty-five points and you still call it excellent, not bad? This school is too indulgent. Scores and rankings are far less important than the quality of human development Why do teachers and parents react very differently to the same thing? There is only one answer, the purpose of education is different. The purpose of education is to deal with the examination in order to excel in the future competition for higher education? Or is it to cultivate a person’s conduct, ability and competence, cultural knowledge, speech and behavior and other basic qualities, in order to later settle down on earth? In the Chinese tradition, education is to educate people for the purpose of the old saying: people or can not eat, but can not not learn. If you don’t eat, you will die; if you don’t learn, you will enter the beasts and not know it! Rather than beasts, rather die. It is clear that only through education can a person become a human being. The so-called “cultivation of the body, the family, the country and the world” in the cultivation of the body, “teaching and educating” in the education of people, the purpose of all point to the people themselves. Therefore, to cultivate the quality of human beings is the highest purpose of education, which requires the cooperation of individuals, families, schools and even society as a whole. Unfortunately, in modern times, under the pressure of promotionism, the educational function of education is declining, the rate of advancement has become the highest goal of school education, the one-sided pursuit of high scores depletes the children’s mental and physical strength, and as a result, a number of high scores of low-quality children should be the type of exams, which destroyed a number of children could have become a high-quality children. Sammy’s mom and most Chinese parents came to the United States with great difficulty in recent years after going through layers and layers of exams, and their past life experiences have made it impossible for them not to pay attention to scores. However, this is not the same as in the past, and the experience cannot be replicated in a different space of time. Chinese children growing up in the U.S. are receiving a quality education, and their understanding of scores is different from that of their parents. In their future lives, even in the near future competition for higher education, they rely on the basic qualities of the individual rather than just scores. There is only one important opponent in life, and that is oneself At the end of each school year, almost every student brings back awards with joy. In addition to awards by subject, there are also a number of awards based on character and conduct. This is not egalitarianism, because there must be something in every child that deserves to be recognized and rewarded, including perfect scores and perfect attendance. The school encourages competition, but never comparison. The idea of “there is only one important opponent in life, that is yourself” is deeply rooted in people’s hearts, and there is no child who is not willing to achieve excellent results in the examination, but if the purpose is only to prove that they are better than others, then no matter how the result is, as far as the motivation is concerned, they have already lost, not only to themselves, but also to everyone who does not have the mentality of comparing themselves with others. mentality of others. Sammy’s sister said a paragraph to Sammy, I think it can be regarded as the children of the United States of America on the quality of education of a kind of interpretation of it: to spend time and effort to train themselves to become a hard worker, not for anything else, just for hard work is not only a virtue but also the ability. Five points higher or ten points lower on a test is a trivial matter, it has no effect on the future and need not be taken seriously, but whether a person is hardworking or not will definitely affect his whole life. So Sammy, you must always ask yourself, is it a hardworking child? If not, then rise to the occasion, a lazy child, even if the exams always get full marks, but also will not achieve anything.