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I
was also shocked by the American educational system as
it was totally opposite from Russian. American students
never developed relationships with their professors and
this “impersonal” way of learning was strange to me.
I don’t think I was ever able adjust to the system of
exams either. Even when I knew the material well, I was
not performing well on the exams because I couldn’t
get the point of answering tons of multple-choice
questions in a very limited amount of time. When I was a
student in Russia most exams were conducted in a form of
an oral interview when a student was answering in front
of a panel of professors asking different questions from
a course and really testing a student’s ability to
think and derive a solution. To this day I think that
American educational system leaves some room for
improvement and that is one of the reasons why I would
want my children to be able to experience European
schools. |
I
think that after 13 years in the United States I became
a good mixture of both Russian education and manners and
American open-mindedness and freedom.
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