Tbf, I don’t know of any country school system that doesn’t excessively use tests and lectures with an authoritarian teacher ruling the classroom in a command and control format.
I’m happy to be proven wrong, but at least in Central America all the public schools (including the private French, British, and international schools) all used the exact same format. My friends who went to private school in Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, and UK all describe the exact same format used in the US, so I expect there’s a blind leading the blind situation happening. Colonialism seems to have replicated this format nearly everywhere. And European countries seem to be all following the same format.
The only place I’ve been where this was even slightly different was in small public schools in Alaska, where the schools were extremely well funded. The class sizes were tiny, only like 6-8 students per grade. However, they were still grouped by age (mostly), and still had lectures and tests and homework. It was much less pressure on test scores but it was still there.
Tbf, I don’t know of any country school system that doesn’t excessively use tests and lectures with an authoritarian teacher ruling the classroom in a command and control format.
I’m happy to be proven wrong, but at least in Central America all the public schools (including the private French, British, and international schools) all used the exact same format. My friends who went to private school in Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, and UK all describe the exact same format used in the US, so I expect there’s a blind leading the blind situation happening. Colonialism seems to have replicated this format nearly everywhere. And European countries seem to be all following the same format.
The only place I’ve been where this was even slightly different was in small public schools in Alaska, where the schools were extremely well funded. The class sizes were tiny, only like 6-8 students per grade. However, they were still grouped by age (mostly), and still had lectures and tests and homework. It was much less pressure on test scores but it was still there.