Passage 4 (7 月试题、1 月试题、形成性考核册 )There are advantages and disadvantages to 1 Asian and Western educational methods
For example, one advantage 2 the education in Japan is that students there learn much more math and science 3 American students
They also study more hours each day than Americans 4
The study is difficult, but it 5 students for a society that values discipline and self-control
There is, however, a disadvantage
Memorization is an important learning method in Japanese schools, 6 many students say that after an exam, they forget much of the information that they have memorizeD
The advantage to the education in North America, 7 the other hand, is that students learn to think by themselves
The system prepares them for a society that values 8 ideas
There is, however, a disadvan