The Differences of Family Education Between China and America

Abstract

Nowadays, children live in a more privileged life and are provided by family and society with more advantageous conditions. At the same time, social development needs children have high qualified talents to face such environment，then good family education is the key point to the high qualified talents. Because family is the first place that children receive education, which plays an important role in the intellectual development and the quality of the children. There are many types of family education in the world and each of them shows distinctive features and closely relate to its culture. And American family education is the most famous one among them. There are great differences in the concepts, methods and results of education between America and China. My paper will analyze those differences from the three aspects, especially the differences on cultivating children’s independence, creativity and relationships between children and parents of the two kinds of family education. I hope to find a satisfied family education method through comparing the differences between Chinese and American family education so as to provide a helpful way for Chinese family education.