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Nour Ali

English 113B

Prof. R Lawson

Kuwaiti and American’s education system

Education is a future investment for a country and it is the most valuable aspect in human life without it people cannot enjoy high standard of living or even living a valuable life because in our society it depends on the degrees that you have you will get salary for instance, if you don’t have any degree you won’t be able to work in a good place and as a result you will not get a good salary so, you cannot live a normal life. So, the education is an investment to reduce the poverty level in a country. Nowadays, in most of the societies and cultures, you get much more respect if you have more degrees in your hand. In our daily life, people won’t respect you if u did not have a proper education and a degree, and that is happening in most cultures (Ali). In fact, the culture promotes and plays a big role in education system. By comparing the American’s system in education and the Kuwaiti education system you will realized that they are totally different because they have a different culture that affect the education system but in somehow you will figure out that there are few facts in education system that are similar even if they are two different countries that has a completely different cultures. So, on my essay I would like to focus on three important thinks such as: in Kuwaiti’s public school the female student are separated in different school from the male student and that does not exist in the American public schools and the American college student have to pay for the university in fact in Kuwait student do not have to do so, finally, in both cultures you will find out that there are teachers that are so dull that makes you hate the class.

Culture is the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social or group or a country. So the culture controlled the country’s system like education for instance, the public school in the state of Kuwait is divided into girls and boys schools. So, the schoolgirl is separated from the schoolboy for their career as a student until they graduate from the high school; then their new life style will start at the university. Once the Kuwaitis student graduate from the high school they will share the classes at the university and here is the problem so few of the student like this idea and other does not. From my own experience, back in time when I was a freshmen student at Kuwait University I used to have classes that are mixed boys and girls and one day the professor ask for a solution and I was the only one between the entire class that knows the answer but I could not be brave enough to rise my hand to answer the question in front of the guys because this situation was unusual to me. Furthermore, I used to not feel comfortable in class with a male student because from the beginning I did not experienced that. Not only that but also the professor did not listen to my voice until the end of the semester so she thought that I am not an excellent student at all. In addition, our culture does not accept the idea that the male and female student could be in a same elementary, middle or even a same high school; but once you became an academic student it is not just at the same university but also it might be at the same class. Honestly, it is bothering me because I do not like to get used to things in my middle age. At the end, my academic level gets worse every semester because I could not accept the idea. In fact, in the American system both female and male students could be at the same school from kinder garden until the university which very normal and would not be a stumbling block in student life.

Secondly, in the United States the government does not pay for the student at the university and in their culture; the parents should save money since the birth of the child until he/she enter the university so they can afford the university costs. In fact, the American universities fees are too expensive for most people. In other hand, in Kuwait the government pays for each student and they pays for the student if he/she chooses to study in private university in or outside the country. In addition, they pay salary for each student as well so the student can afford the books and tutoring costs. Since United States of America applied democracy and equality, they should think and put in mind that they have to cover all segments of society needs, which is at least by building low cost universities with same qualities as regular universities, so, student from low income areas can afford the costs. And have a chance to complete their studies, to reduce the burden on their parents. Furthermore, as I said before that the United States of America is a freedom country where are no differences between black and white, poor and rich people all of them are equal and all of them have the right to complete their studies and live a normal life without worrying about their future and to follow their dreams and their aims by taking the first step of the succeed. Finally, I want to point out that, in Kuwaiti culture if the parents pays for their child for school that’s mean their child is not doing really well at school and he/she always fail their classes so the parents forced to pay for them even if this not true; this how the people in our culture think.

Thirdly, According to the writer barker on “becoming writer” used to hate English and everything that was associated with English, specially writing, but this idea has changed in the 11th grade when he was in Mr. Fleagle Poss class. At the beginning, he used to think the teacher was so boring and dull, but all these ideas have flown away when he wrote the “Art of Eating good Spaghetti”. The reason why he succeeds in his simple essay was because he wrote what he likes the most. And here is the point, you have to like your work and just think that you not forced to do it by your teacher or your instructor, think that you do it for yourself to reach your goals by getting a good grades and degrees. Once, on my senior year at high school I took different English classes with different teachers. On my first semester my grades were pretty good and really high because our instructor does not gives us a particular topic to write about she always gives us the choice to choose the run-on topic that we are interested in not because she neglected and doesn’t care about us but because, she want us to innovate on our paper and to do our best in order to get high grade. On other hand, our instructor on the second semester she always forced as to write about difficult topics that she gets from TOEFL test which seems weird to us, the entire class was disappointed and we all felt like this class really heavy on us. I totally agree with Russel Barker when he said, “I want to write about that, about the warmth and good feeling but I wanted to put it down simply for my good own joy” which is mean that he want to write it for himself not for the teacher because he get quite interested in it and he really like it, here is the secret of his success in his paper (Ali). So, I am with Russel Barker on his point but In conclusion, both Barker and I, we used to hate writing in fact, we are from two different countries and from different cultures. In my opinion, cultures play a big role in student life “the educational life”.

In conclusion, “the culture impact on education” is a really serious issue that can briefly explain how the culture promotes the education system in most countries in a really serious way. Moreover, the culture plays a big role in student life by controlling the education system depending on their culture; for instance, as I mentioned before the female and male students in Kuwait are separated in two different schools until they starts their higher education. In addition, the American’s college students have to pay for the university comparing with Kuwaiti students they do not have to. In fact, sometimes the culture controls the education system in good/bad way that affect the student positively/negatively. Also, once you live with a culture that is not yours you will find out that even if they are totally different cultures with different live style still there are few things that they are similar in.

Work cited

Baker, Russell. “Becoming a Writer”. New York:2004.Print

Ali, Nour. “Education and Good Life”. Northridge:2013.Print