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Finally a post from you i can agree with.
The finnish knows by the time a kid is 16 if he is college material, if he isnt then he is channeled into vocational, so he can learn a trade and become a productive and well paid member of society.
Meanwhile the US is trying to make college professors out of hood boyz. Of course its going to fail.
My wife is from Korea and she talks about the education problem in Korea all the time. She said ridiculous amounts of money and time are spent on teaching students English and yet barely anyone in the country speak English, even after all the hours they spend learning it. Countries like Sweden and Finland spend far less time and money on learning English and yet most of the population can speak both their native language and English.
It seems like the Scandinavian model would be a far more reasonable model to follow when it comes to education than the East Asian model, which is extremely inefficient.
Canada is still in the top of the charts when it comes to education. It has declined because a lot of a brutal lowering of standards, but Canada has for many years been in at least the top 5 countries and does not spend nearly as much time in the classroom as East Asian countries. Canada has some excellent Universities. It does not matter too much which University you go to in Canada, you will get a decent education.
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