A Teen’s Lessons from China
Annie Osborn, class of ’04
Featured on The Boston Globe’s editorial page
After spending her junior year in Beijing, Annie Osborn reflects on her experience and the difference between Chinese and American Schools in an Op/Ed piece published in the Boston Globe on June 8, 2009.
While she found the curriculum more rigorous than the typical American high school, Annie also noticed a striking lack of opportunity for deep discussion or critical thinking that she experienced at both Advent and Boston Latin School.
Click here to read the full text on The Boston Globe’s site.
“What is absolutely unique [about the Advent School] is the judgment, creativity, and developmental attention with which its rich multi-cultural program has been constructed. If any school will underscore and illuminate the opportunity and challenge with which multi-cultural education can be considered, this fine, small, humane scholarly little school can do it for us all.”
— citation from the U.S. Department of Education
- Advent Art Sampler
