2 million minutes

Today we watched the movie 2 Million Minutes.  This movie talks about the difference between students in the USA, China, and India.  I could not believe the difference.  Students in the US study half as much as those in China.  They spend a lot more time on sports and other activities than on academics.  One of the students from India said that they had time for school and nothing else.  One of the students would get up at 5:45 on a Saturday to study with other students for a few hours, go to breakfast, then go on to school for however many more hours.  I doubt there are many American students who even think about homework on a Saturday.  Another difference is in career choices.  The boy from India knew by the time he was seventeen that he was going for engineering.  He worked very hard to get into a school for this area.  A lot of teens in the US do not know what career they will go into until they get a few years of college in, and even after that most switch.  A reoccurring idea in this movie was that American kids do not realize that they are competing against kids from other nations to get jobs.  Kids from India and China spend their whole childhood making the most of their education, where kids in the US spend more time on leisure activities and only 'get by' in school.  This is sad.  When compared kids in the US need to step it up.  They need to study more and understand concepts better.  There is a lot of room for improvement!