A teacher from a Western country recently visited an elementary school in an Asian country. In one class, she watched sixty young children ( ) they learned to draw a cat. The class teacher drew a big circle on the blackboard, and sixty children copied it(= _________) on their papers. The teacher drew a smaller circle on top of the first(= _________) and then put two triangles on top of it(= _____________). The children drew in the same way. The lesson continued ( ) there were sixty-one identical cats in the classroom. Each student's cat looked exactly like the one(= ) on the board.
The visiting teacher was surprised by the lesson.(능동태 ) She was surprised ( ) the teaching methods were very different from those(= _______________) of her own country. A children's art lesson in her own country produced a room full of different pictures, each one (= and each one is) completely different from the others. Why? What causes this difference in educational methods? In a classroom in any country, the teacher teaches more than art or history or language. He or she also teaches culture (the ideas and beliefs of that society). Each educational system is a mirror that ________(= reflecting) the culture of society. |