2 Million Minutes

2 Million Minutes is a video we watched in class.  It compares United States, China and India's school system.  It is estimated that each student spends 2 million minutes in school.  There is such a large range of differences on each student's 2 million minutes in school throughout these different countries.  Students in China and India act very different from our schools.  They see school as a privilege and take it very seriously while we complain about going every day.  In the US we focus so much on sports.  These other countries did not spend nearly as much time, money or effort on sports.  They would rather be doing other activities that work their brain and are proven to help with academics.  I also noticed that families play a huge role in the education of the children.  The parents are there every step of the way making sure they are succeeding.  The families are much closer and care much more about how their children are doing.  There is a huge cultural difference between the two countries and it makes me want to move to another country to raise my family.  The US rated number 1 in confidence.  Maybe that is because we are always competing in sports so we know that we need the confidence.  Hopefully in the future we will have more than just confidence because the populations from other countries are going to come and steal the jobs we are competing for and they WILL WIN.  They are much smarter and overall much more prepared that any student from America.