Using Tanzania as a focal country, explain why education system of the world is not similar.

Education is a process of imparting knowledge, skills, values and ideas from one generation to another generation.

Education system refers to the formal institute, agency and organization of a country that transmits knowledge and cultural heritage to individual.

Comparative education is the study of different education system and determining their strength and weakness. Comparative education is the most effective way of explaining the behavior educational system in terms of teaching subject, the curriculum, education policy or management.

Education does not means the same thing in all society, it may have quite different aims ,operate  under different conditions and be assessed by different criteria’s thought the differences are not absolute, there are much to be said for emphasizing the differences as there are likely to be overlooked or misunderstood one has to go directly into cross cultural comparisons. For example politicians or even senior managers in education found for reinforcing their arguments with assorted pieces of evidence from the experiences of other countries (pg. 173).

Those evidence may be wrong is not real the point even when the information was accurate, it could be easily to be used with little appreciation of the differences between other system and one’s own (grant 1968).

The following are the factors that mark the differences of education system in the world.

The issue of language, the education system of the world does differ in language there are those country that use monolingual in their education while other country use bilingual in education system and there are those which uses multilingual thus this mark for the differences in education system. For example in Tanzania in education system uses Kiswahili and English as the medium of instruction in primary, secondary and higher level while British uses only English language as the medium of instruction in all levels.

Belief and tradition (culture), this makes educational status of a country due to that each country value education differently while some societies give first priority on education others do not. For example in Tanzania education is not given much emphasize from different culture or society due to the local government being there while other country value education in different ways like United states of America devote the great deal of time to socialization and preparation of students for life  and social communication skills, the same could be said of a Germany gymnastic  teacher impressing of the games and character building by which some remain grammar school still set such store (pg. 175).

Economic situation in Tanzania the issue of financing in education is still low in a such a way that low resources are set for the system  thus issue like building school facilities ,building teacher houses, salaries and other resources for the system is still a problem in Tanzania while in U.S.A financing is much more independent on the sources of particular area where school are located, standards therefor in U.S.A vary greatly from one state to another while in Tanzania whole system  resources depends on the  central government which give little priority and fund to education system (pg. 175).

International conferences, there has been the increase power of international agencies over education policy and practice worldwide. The increased cross cultural transfers shown by the impact on the post society union countries in Europe where curricula policy and very purpose of education has been through considerable transformation (crossly and Watson (2003).for example poor countries like Tanzania that always transfer education system from other countries due to the attending of international conference hence fail to implement well the system copied from other systems example big result now policy.

Structure of education, various systems organize their education differently preferring in some cases to make the main division of primary /secondary education .For example in Tanzania the age for compulsory education is 7-14 or 6-13 and is not for vocation but is just compulsory and does not give any experience to the students. While countries like England and wales school is for children between the age of 5-11, Scotland from 5-12.similary the term secondary school may mean the entire stage from pre adolescence on ward.

Political philosophy, usually political and philosophy of a nation determine the education system of a particular country that always goes hand in hand with the need of the society. Taking example of Tanzania we had education for self-reliance in 1967 later on we adopted the education policy of Malaysia  namely big result now that could not meet the need of the society as it didn’t provide any changes in the society rather added more chaos as it lead to poor qualification of education system.

Historical background of a country influence education system of that country which makes differences to others, due to this Tanzania colonized by German and British as result of adopting British education system which basing much on collar job and dependent each and every thing from them leading dependent of everything from developed countries in all aspect.

Demographic the matter of population is very important for any development including in education system. The population of the country helps good planning and management of the country to achieve their goals to be successful. The number of people influences education system of a particular country. For example in Tanzania population is not controlled in all aspect of living.

Geographical location of the country influences the kind of education system to a particular country. For example countries which are surrounded by seas, oceans, lakes or livers are likely to be dominated by fishing in their education system like Egypt, and Chinese practice much irrigation education and other nations their education is based on agriculture.   

Despite of the presence of these differences that exist in education system, the education that is provided must make a person fit in their society and promote sustainable development.