Tuesday, December 9, 2014

This I believe

This I believe        
Education System in Myanmar
    This is what I believe about the education system in my country. I am from Burma but now i am become a citizen of America. I like the education system in United States. To compare with my country’s education system, it is ways too much lower than United States. In my country, even though the students graduated from Universities with professional degrees, they cannot get high pay and cannot transfer their credits to other countries. For example, most of my friends who already finished medical school from my country want to continue their education in United States. Unfortunately, they cannot get transfer credits. They came to New York City and tried to take USMLE tests, but cannot pass the test. It is not because they are bad in test taking, it is because of the education system they had learned in Myanmar is not high enough standard. The answer is all depend on the government of Myanmar. Since 1988, the government took all the authority to overwhelm the students. The purpose of the government is to block the way of the student’s future. So the students cannot continue their education in other countries and cannot protest against the government authority with aid of the foreign countries. Then the government changed the education system to the lowest standard. Starting from that time, the students cannot achieve higher education system. Not higher in the school system can make the students under the government control. Nowadays, the graduated students started complaining about the education system since they cannot get back enough credit even though they spend their student’s life for long time. That’s lead to the civil war and many people are asking for Democracy. If the government changed to higher education system that can compare with the system from foreign countries, there might not have those kinds of crisis.