Since I experienced both educational systems, I can say that, and clearly state that the one in Hungary is just not effective. It is not interesting so it makes children hates subjects, the teachers don’t get enough salary, they are frustrated and not excited about their subject or teaching, which honestly saying would be the most important thing. Having an inspirational relationship with students. I cannot say anything about English high schools because I have not attended any, however, I have experience with English university and I heard a lot from friends about Hungarian ones. I have to say though that I am thinking about Arts and Humanities and also social sciences, but subjects like sciences and medicine are quite different. As I experience, in Hungary there is not too much general difference between high school and university in terms of teaching and assessing method.
Obviously it is a university so closed examinations and lectures are there so it is different, but this is still quite similar to the idea of high school teaching. why? Because they have to learn so much, they have to study, study and study even if they don’t care, and cheating is not a new phenomenon either. This means that it is so much what they have to learn that they just can’t deal with every information, they hate it that they have to do it so they don’t like it and they don’t feel good. On the top of that most of them have a huge amount of exams which is again really stressful.
On the contrary, this system is rather based on teaching to think carefully and individually and not studying what they tell you to. You have to be creative writing essays because the task is really vague and you have to solve it. On seminar discussions they are curious about your opinion and how you are able to process the readings you have. It is not a choice, as an example, that there are just many philosophers and their ideas are bad so one would rather not care and not learn the huge amount of pages they have to. Here you read about them, analyse them, and yes you don’t have to agree with them but it can still serve as an interesting viewpoint which is worth to think about. Moreover, there are not as many exams, and they are not curious about the facts we can memorise, but the competences and skills we earned.
I am sure that there are advantages to the other system and not everything is black and white, but from my experiences it is worth to think about if it is worth it to study like that.
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