What abilities does American early education cultivate children?

I think two kinds of abilities are more important: innovative ability and critical ability. American teachers ask students not to believe in authority. Many cases have said that teachers will use some methods to make students question what the teacher said in class, unlike China, who asked students to believe what the teacher said (of course, the situation is much better now, but the teacher still asks students to trust the teacher absolutely). In fact, the ability to question is similar to the ability to find problems. Only when you are in doubt can you think about finding problems. When you find a problem, you will try every means to solve it, because students' curiosity has existed since childhood, but the curiosity of China students has been laid down by China's education. In the process of solving problems, American education requires students to find their own solutions. Unlike China education, the answers to questions are certain, and many of them are just one method. How can this be innovation? That's not the problem in America.

Obviously, China's education focuses on knowledge inheritance and memory; The United States attaches importance to students' own thinking.

Of course, there are many abilities: practical ability, observation ability, reading ability, problem-solving ability, self-reliance ability and so on. It's just that mathematics in American basic education is a stain on American education. They have been working hard to strengthen students' mathematics learning without obliterating their creativity and critical ability.