Education System

The comparison of Education System between Indonesia and Australia.

Education is the foundation for country development. The country's education can improved by it educational system. 

As you can see, there are so many development countries have a better education system now. However, it is still interesting to us to compare the education system of both countries.

In this blog, I will try to give you an example of the education comparison between education system in the world. For the example is between my country, Indonesia and Australia. 

There are several ways and perspective can be applied in the comparison. To make simple, the comparative analysis is only done based on the difference level education of them. Here are the differences between they education system. 

1. Playgroup

The children activities in the Australia, kindergartens (3-5 year old) are mostly playing, dancing, singing and other similar ones.
In Indonesia, kindergartens are able to read and do some basic math. 
However, their social skill are less developed than those in Australia. 

2. Elementary school

At the elementary school, the Australian system is considered more relax than Indonesia's. An Indonesian eight year old kid cramming in the room to study math, natural science such as geography, and social science like history and religion.
In contrast, Australia a counterpart is playing sport or music. When Australian system develops almost all nine type of human intelligences, the logical-mathematical intelligence is the main focus for Indonesian kids.
Indonesian kids are trained to memorize some scientific fact and figures in their textbooks, meaning less time for playing.

3. Secondary system

The similar differences can also able to observed at the secondary level. The high school students in Indonesia often study physics and math.
one also could argue that the Australian education lacks of discipline. However, when comparing at the higher education level in both countries, the Indonesian standard is significantly falling behind the Australia's, perhaps due to lack of funding and resources.

In general, the Indonesian system is mainly focusing on a few type of intelligence such as logical whereas the diversity is a lot better in Australia. 
In addition, the Indonesian system is still mostly based on teacher style, the systems that has been abandoned in most of developed countries that prefer Socratic style of teaching.

which one is better? Depends on what you want. To be a scientist engineer, perhaps Indonesian system is good. However, Australian system is capable in developing all nine type of intelligence which allow more development opportunity for most children.

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