Hey all. In University, I want to take a course on Education to fulfill my ambition to make a awesome school in Japan.

Education system in Japan are not that great in my opinion. For example, we have a little choice in what to learn as most school don't offer alternative course other then the usual set. Science lessons are mostly about learning rules, history are memorizing 'facts' of what happened in year blah blah and who did what. English lessons are only about learning grammar and after 6 years of English learning, they can barely communicate with native English speakers.

Also due to the low quality of our teachers, many rely on night school to up their grades.
Their main focus is to get into a good Uni rather then to actually learn anything.

Now of cause there are excellent schools around, but the majority of school is still rather poor in the method of actually teaching. We used to be the top in Asia but now, Korea and China proved them selves to be far more efficient in terms of education.

This made me wonder. What is high school like in your countries? Is there an curriculum that teacher has to follow, or rule that teacher must teach in certain ways?