While “Tiger Mom” touched off a huge wave of debate around the world, the opposite method from Finland's education system is also drawing widespread attention. This kind of educational mode is called “Sheep Mom”.
“Sheep Mom” refers to an extensive way of education that sets only basic objectives but no core syllabus. Teachers can feel free to use any teaching method as long as most children can reach the goals. Finland firmly believes that education is a “service” and children are “customers”. Since the education mode in Finland basically amounts to “sheep-herding”, it is also called “Sheep Mom”.
The result of “sheep-herding” cannot be underestimated. In the last four international Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, students from Finland all ranked in the top three in math, reading and science. This report not only surprised the world but also shocked people in Finland. In other words, Finland’s education system, which least encourages competition, cultivates the most competitive children.
actually,every child is like a blank,if has no limits or restricts,following his or her nature, everyone can be the talent.
but now in our country's education system, it's ture, under this kind of system,cultivates large amounts of high score chirldren,can we say loudly that they're good enough? No,we can not.
we can see:after school ,huge amounts of parents get together in front of school gate to pick their chlid up instead of go back home only or with their mates;at rest time,chirldren are not enjoying their game time ,instead,they're still take endless after-school -tutoring;
on their papers,we can see just only one answer no other new...