摘要:本文共由六个部分组成。首先阐述了中国和美国教育发展的文化背景，论述了中美两国在教育投入方面的差异，以及两国教育理念差异的具体体现。如课堂的氛围、教学目标、课程形式等。分析了中美教育理念差异的原因。探究了中美教育理念各自的优势，如学生的能力和目标，家长的教育理念等方面展开论述。最后得出结论，为中国教育改革提出了几点建议，在保证中国教育优势的同时，吸收美国教育的优秀经验理念，努力学习和培养学生兴趣相结合，培养良好的师生关系，改变老师的固有观念，不断革新教育形式,在世界教育改革的影响下,我国教育也正在从应试教育向素质教育转变,但是在教育观念上,我国还存在着一些认识上与实践上的偏差,借鉴美国的教育观念,会有一些启发，从而得出结论，便于更好地借鉴和吸收，从而建立具有中国特色的教育体系。

关键词：教育理念；优势；中美；比较

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中文摘要

Abstract

1.The conceptions of education in China and the USA-1

2.Differences in educational conceptions between China and the USA-2

2.1 Educational conception differences in extracurricular activities-2

2.2 Educational conception differences in teaching goals and methods-3

2.3 Educational conception differences in exam forms-4

2.4 Educational conception differences in school graduate requirements-5

2.5 Educational conception differences in school types-6

2.6 Educational conception differences in investment-7

3.Reasons for the differences in educational conceptions-9

4.The advantages of the conceptions of education-10

4.1 Student’s study ability and goal-10

4.2 Parents’ educational conceptions-11

5.Suggestions to Chinese education reform-12

5.1 To make students creative-12

5.2 To construct a better family environment-12

5.3 To improve teacher-students relationship-13

5.4 To change teaching concept-13

5.5 To reform evaluation system-13

5.6 To improve teaching method-14

Conclusion-14

References-15

Acknowledgements-16