Im so sorry for posted response of Kie Hos article

very late, I hope I could still join this discussion.

First , I disagree with Kie Ho that education in other
countries is defined as " dedication and obedience
( Paragraph 7, line 1 ). He made a generalization by
using only his own experience in high school days,
however, it is not applicable to all the countries.
Every school have a different policy to make their
curriculum. I have a friend who study in Singapore.
She told me that, she very happy when High
School, she won gold medal of Medical Research,
its because her teachers give her a chance to try
and to think critically. She get not only knowledge
from her teacher but also support and guidance.
Its like a share, we get something from teacher
and teacher get something from us. And in my high
school (In Indonesia), we're actually are not asked
only to listen and be obedient to teacher, we ask
questions in the class and even raise objections
when they think what the teacher says wrong, or
we dont like the teaching style. Even if they seem
to be under strong control, its not because
Indonesians education is designed to bring out
dedication and obedience from students, but
because Indonesians particular circumstances
cause such a sight. In fact, there are more than

forty students in a class, therefore, its not easy for

students to act as freely as American students who
have only about twenty-five students in a class.
Second, in Kie Ho's article, he tried to prove that
American education is better than other country
even though it doesnt have high standards in
basic skills as mathematics and language
(Paragraph 8, line 1). I disagree with his statement,
he didnt consider that people couldnt obtain
advanced innovation when performing the
creativity without basic knowledge. For example, a
computer programmer has to know at least basic
skills and technical terms so as to devise some
items although he has an original idea. A students
who will study in other country have to learn "basic
laguange" to comunicate and make a relationship
with people in that country. And if we will study
about calculus, we have to understand the basic of
Mathematics so we could solve the problem. So,
According to me, learning basic skills is very
important.
Third, Kie Ho compared Indonesians education
system antiquity with the Americans education
system, obviously it's very different, Indonesia has
changes and progress in the education system. So I
think, thats not good comparison. Kie Ho also

says, that Americans education system better

than other country. I disagree with that, freedom in
creativity has been applied in Indonesia, we do not
just memorize, but we require to understand. May
be in biology or history we have to memorize a lot
of names and terms, Have you ever think that
memorize is important? Improving our ability in
memorize can increasing ability of left brain
Intelligence Quotient (IQ). So, According to me,
Indonesians education system better than
Americans.
Ok, may be you have another opinions guys?