Peking University selected the students, the majority of whom are undergraduates, out of several hun

The Harvard China Fund hosted a group of 15 students cheap flight tickets canada from Peking University in Beijing on a 10-day trip which exposed them to the American education system and social entrepreneurship. The journey inspired some students to develop their own plans to reform Chinese education.
"We all know that China is undergoing educational reform and it's time to assess what is best for students to learn and for professors to teach," Zong said. "China is more lecture and relying cheap flight tickets canada on memory. The Americans' way is more encouraging creativity and encourage freedom of thinking."
The number cheap flight tickets canada of students attending Chinese universities has quadrupled in the past ten years, according to Harvard China Fund Chairman William C. Kirby. "China's education system is growing fast in quantity and quality and the American system is not," he said. But Kirby said he still thought the Chinese students could learn from the American system.
"What amazed me a lot is that for U.S. education, there are so many ways of designing your own path," said Peking cheap flight tickets canada University student Zie Gijia. "There's this simple cheap flight tickets canada and uniform way of people's way of thinking of success [in China]."
The students' stay included cheap flight tickets canada visits to private secondary school Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. and public kindergarten-through-eighth-grade Mission Hill School in Jamaica Plain. Students also audited courses at Harvard.
She said the visit inspired her to begin designing plans for a program that would improve Chinese teenagers' sense of self so that they can develop their dreams through workshops during summer or winter vacations. "In China, most of the students spend most of their time in school cheap flight tickets canada and they don't have time to even ask themselves, 'Who am I and what do I want to be?'" she said.
The Harvard China Fund enables cross-cultural inspiration to travel in both directions. It funds faculty research about China, runs summer programs for Harvard students in Asia, and maintains the Harvard Shanghai Center, the university's physical presence in China.
"I think it would be a very valuable thing for Harvard students to go to a Chinese or European or an entirely different type of university and see the variety of different ways in which people learn and think in different national and cultural settings," Kirby said. He said the original intent of the College's United States in the World general education requirement was to help Harvard students view America as the rest of the world sees it.
Peking University selected the students, the majority of whom are undergraduates, out of several hundred applicants. They departed from Boston on Sunday. Zong said the Harvard China Fund hopes to repeat this program with Peking University in the future.