Comparing education systems between Turkey and U.S.

Comparing Education,
I would like to compare education systems between Turkey and U.S. The education system in Turkey, which is my home country, is different than from here. If we start with elementary school, every resident was supposed to go to elementary school for five years according to constitution. 1998 they rose to eight years and combined elementary school with middle school.
In addition, we have three years high school education and we have different types of high schools such as vocational, art, science, private high schools etc. When we go to vocational high school, we will be trained for specific areas like electrical mechanical computer. Right after vocational high school, we can easily start to work as a technician.
If we chose to go to regular high school, we can go further and go to college, which is easier to go to college if you graduate from regular high school. I said easier because if somebody wants to go to college has to pass the three our two-step test that we usually prepared in regular high school. This is not meaning vocational high school graduate cannot go to college, for example if someone graduates from mechanical vocational high school, he or she can be easier to become mechanical engineer.
College education differs in many ways, such as attendance, exams and tools. Attendance in Turkey is not important as much as here. In U.S. if you want to pass a class you have to attend fully and pass the exams. In Turkey, class sizes are bigger, that makes less attention and less tools to students.
Exams we are having only mid term and final and you have to pass both of them to be able to pass the class. In U.S., we have to take more class to graduate, in Turkey less classes but we are getting more information and learning more in the class. In U.S. there is more tools like computers, visual equipments etc. that creates more creative students.
I can say education system in U.S. more organized and graduating more creative people. In Turkey, we are graduating with more knowledge but less creativity. I think it is easier to study in U.S. is you are ready to think.
Bottom line, Schools in Turkey graduating with more knowledge, but U.S. schools graduating more people that are more creative.

Ozgur Coskun
DenizOzgur.com


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