> China doesn’t innovate, and could easily be taken down economically
This may have been true a generation ago, but is not true anymore.
The government school system is become the Bus Ministry of the Church of Nihilistic Hedonistic Socialism.
In these indocrination camps, the children are spoon fed political correctness and are taught to focus more on eachother’s genitals than on mathematics, science, economics, history, or language.
Consider what just happened last week in our local school collective.
http://www.heraldonline.com/2011/01/07/2736831_nh-high-school-bans-safe-sex-kits.html
http://www.sentinelsource.com/articles/2011/01/13/opinion/letters_editor/free/id_423722.txt
I’ll venture that you won’t find that kind of stupidity in the Chinese school system. They don’t have time for it.
What does “AIDS education” have to do with academic excellence? This is “progressive education”?
Whereas I agree with you about the loss of focus and the liberal bias that has permeated our educational system, I still stand by what I said. It’s not just about ‘education’. It’s about culture. Free form thinking isn’t fostered in rigid homogeneous societies that emphasize collective thought rather than individualism.
There are many people in the world who have mastered the violin, for example, and can play anything with extreme precision. Few of these people, however, ever write a new piece of music that inspires humanity for centuries. You can make people go to school every waking minute of every day, and push the concept of societal responsibility, but this will not lead to creativity and innovation. That comes, by definition, from individuals. Societies that don’t celebrate the individual will always lag behind in creativity.