Tell you what JAPAN. You want to be a model for education? Then STOP editing your history books. ADD BACK IN FULL the
'dangerous' contents back INTO the Textbook. STOP revising and down playing the Nanjing Massacre, STOP ignoring your Sex Slaves, STOP depicting Japan as liberating other Asian countries, STOP using wartime propaganda terminology e.g. calling WWII the "Greater East Asian War". TELL THE TRUTH....then talk to the rest of the world about being a leader in education.
You know, I had a pretty darn good education in the years before we were taught to be ashamed of our past. In fact, it was about that time that our education system really started rolling downhill. The acquisition and regular implementation of critical thinking skills have little to do with knowing the dark side of your political forebears.