A teacher from a Western country recently visited an elementary school in Asia.In one class, she watched sixty children16they learned to draw a cat. The teacher first drew a big circle on the blackboard, and the children copied it17sheets of paper. The teacher drew a smaller circle over the first one and then put two triangles (三角形)at each side. The children drew18the same way. The lesson continued until there were sixty-one19cats in the classroom. Each student, s cat looked exactly like20on the board. 

The visitor watched the lesson and was21.The teaching methods were very different from those in her country. A( n)22lesson for children there would produce a roomful of23pictures, each completely different from the others. What24this difference? An educational system is a mirror that25the culture of the society. In any country, a teacher teaches26art or history or language. He or she also teaches culture. In countries such as the United States and Canada, there exist great national, religious, and cultural27People there highly28individualism. Teachers attach29to the qualities that make each student special. Students do not memorize information.30, they work individually and find answers themselves. At an early age, they learn to form. their own ideas and opinions. 

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