4.Botstein argues that the high school overhaul should be accompanied by higher expectations, forcing grads to be adept in everything from civics to economics.
5.Civic education is a kind of comprehensive, systematic and harmonious education, which is carried out by a state to cultivate its civics to adjust to a harmonious society.
6.What makes Taiwan different from us is that Chinese is the sole language of the Taiwanese. All course materials, including mathematics, natural science, civics and so on, are conducted in Chinese. Even if Taiwan advances the teaching of English to primary schools, their students are unlikely to get confused over the learning of English and Chinese, as they learn Chinese with the help of phonetic symbols, not romanised pinyin.
