If you want to live abroad for getting a top education you should check the countries that are notorious for their education quality in the last few years. Check out, for example, some scandinavian countries such as Denmark and Finland.

Don't think the western education in general is just better. For example, Brazil and USA have the same test-based education you are complaining about (maybe just a little less rigid than China's, for what I heard).

I agree with you.I don't know about Taiwan, but I was a teacher for 3 years in China, and the students there only knew how to memorize, and were afraid to try speaking English. Many of them told me they hated their major and that their parents had made them choose it.I think that is very sad, and that students in the West are more independent and have more freedom to choose what to study and what to do in their lives. Of course it is good to have some discipline in schools, but learning should be more fun, especially now that we have many fun ways to use technology to study. So maybe we can change traditional schooling to make it better.

Ruthi,

I did 7years of French and could only string a simple sentence by the time my O level came around. Much the same situation as China students learn English. I also read in England, exams have been dumbed down,  A levels are no longer an accurate discriminator for Universities and some are reintroducing entrance exams.

I just met a friend in UK who felt unhappy that GCSE were too facts and rote learning orientated. So he took his daughter out of the school to a different one that has a holistic approach. It sounds like they have more liberal arts classes but still have to do GCSE and exams. She does her homework on the train home as the travelling time is quite long.

Possibly in Australia and Western countries, learning a trade is also viewed positively and pays well. Such as a plumber, mechanic, decorator. So there is an alternative  if you are not the sit down and study type of character. Asian cultures don't have the same attitudes and I agree there is less flexibility. Whether a western education is fun,  well I am not sure it is - they can have more fun socially and that's quite definite. But fun within the course work?

In the end,

whatever education you have, to do well, you still have to work hard at it (for most of us).

I think that Canada, the Scandinavian countries, Australia have a very good and flexible educational system. I loved my schooling in Australia. I am teaching in China and I would def. agree with Ruthi on that learning and studying should be fun. If you had freedom as most of us do in the Western world, there are also parents that make their kids study something what they had wanted to study as kids and couldn't have or what they think it might bring their kids a lot of money nowadays, the students would probably be much better at a particular subject or that what they are majoring in. But then again, try to explain it to them lol 

Thank you guys for replying me!!All your comments are really good!!I agree with you guys!!No country's education is perfect. If I can,I would like to be a exchange student,experience other country's education!!