Westerners, what is the educational system in your countries like...

It's the same here except the scale is 1-5. Every single leftie do gooder is complaining how it's outdated and makes people disinterested in learning but I think training memory is important and it prepares you for a life where you will be evaluated as well. Education or more accurately interest in education is hereditary anyway.

Our public education system is quite abysmal. My newphew told me that they replaced the maths teachers in his year 9 class with computers. At least they can play minecraft for Maori week.

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Right, but what do you guys actually do in school? Romanian news anchors often drone on about miraculous western learning methods that our schoolchildren don't have, but I never got what that meant. I thought it's just a matter of making rote memorization more effective.

it's pretty good I'd say
first you have 4 years of elementary, then you either go to Hauptschule for 5, to Realschule for 6, or to Gymnasium for 8 more years depending on how good you are. You can also switch between those schools if you do very good/bad. Hauptschule and Realschule normally prepare you for manual labor or trades, Gymnasium gives you the Abitur at the end which enables you to go to university.
nowadays they introduce "combined schools" for all categories of pupils for the sake of inclusion, however a social worker I met said it just overburdens the bad pupils and demands too little of the good ones
also you hear how supposedly our schools aren't "digitalized" enough, but I don't see how having a tablet in class should make learning better for the pupils

From my experience in a really good public school the extracurricular opportunities are a lot better. For example engineering and compsci courses

For more baseline things we do differently I don't know, some courses test your deeper understanding on topics with essays

Don't ask us, our school system has been falling for decades for 90% of our public schools. Our top parisians public schools are god tier but I have no idea what they're like.

That and the other half is leftist globohomo indoctrination. Even stem gets corrupted.

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I think there’s less of an emphasis on rote learning than in Romanian education. In our high school NCEA exams, you will typically have to write 2-3 essays on a subject you learned about.

Essays are all about demonstrating critical thinking and how you justify how you came to a position.

In class would talk in groups about a subject and the activities emphasised forming our own opinion. IMO rote learning is only useful for STEM subjects.

no one taught me how to learn, i just tried memorizing things on my own and I failed everytime

tell me how I'm wrong

I went to a special school. It was the same curriculum but a bit more advanced/forward. When we were in year 8 we were doing year 9 and breaching into year 10. By the time we had finished year 10 we had finished the content and it goes without saying most of us smashed the hsc.

But fuck I didnt Romania was such a shithole. Literally lower then Malaysia in most fields hoooooly fuck

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Aren’t you taking “The land down under” a bit too literally :^)

We do the same thing. Some teachers try "engaging" activities to appeal to a younger audience but nobody likes it when they do. Most schoolwork revolves around powerpoints, chalkboard lessons, essays and worksheets. We also have something called a "smartboard" but it's basically just a projector you can write on. I don't think Romania could afford them.

you can change your education but you can't beat your iq

Depended on the teacher, some teachers would give us workbook assignments and go on Facebook, others we took notes from powerpoints, others would lecture and we'd have to write really fast, in math class the teacher would solve problems for us on the projector, show YouTube vids explaining the concept, then give us problems in the textbook, science class we did labs and experiments like in physics we designed mini rockets and measured the speed/time. English class we'd read a passage in the textbook and discuss the critical content and our opinions of it. Spanish class our teacher would speak in simple slow Spanish and get the class to engage.

It seems like we really suck. Even when it comes to essays in standardized exams, there is an expected answer that you have to give if you want to get the highest possible mark. The Romanian literature exam from the Baccalaureate, for instance, features an essay concerning certain aspects of a randomly chosen literary work. Students just memorize the commentaries word for word, because there is a set structure to them and a limited number of potential subjects. ("The characteristics of / The construction of a character in / The relationship between two characters in [a poem / fairy tale / novel / novella / play]")
We have those too, or at least I did.

Literally speaking for my final english exam in school I wrote and finalized my essay a month before and memorized it just so I could regurgitate what I needed to in the exam room. There were two. One was creative writing which they gave me a sentence and I had to mold an essay around and the second was a more formal one was about fucking Animal Farm.

Stop comparing yourself to western countries you're still one of the better balkan ones

tbph I think grades have more to do with the teachers than with the students

I graduated in 2003, I don't know what the fuck they teach now