National patterns of education in Great Britain and the USA. Образование в Англии и США

Educational system of any country is integrally related to the values and assumptions of the society that surrounds it. Whatever its advantages and disadvantages are, the system will retain its current general characterizations as long as the values and assumptions that predominate in the surrounding society continue to hold away. But anyway our task today is reveal national patte
s of education in Great Britain and the USA.<br>Let’s start from American system of education. Americans believe that every citizen has both the right and the obligation to become educated. In order to develop an educated population all states have compulsory school attendance laws which require that formal schooling begins by age 6 and continue until at least age 16.

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