[ari-freedom]

I don’t understand how the Asians manage to standardize education and get great results while Americans can’t do it without screwing everything up.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I don’t understand how the Asians manage to standardize education and get great results while Americans can’t do it without screwing everything up.

Probably because they aren't afraid the kids will grow up knowing too much to vote Socialist. :)

[9YearLurker]

Asian countries generally start with smart kids and then don’t subject them to ed school/teachers union claptrap. Nationalizing standards IMO is not fundamental to their results.

[Mad Dawgg]

"I don’t understand how the Asians manage to standardize education and get great results while Americans can’t do it without screwing everything up."

I'll go out on a limb and surmise the Asian Nations you reference don't have powerful Teachers Unions.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

How about letting parents choose the form of their child’s education?

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Modern schooling is babysitting. I can prove it in one sentence.

If you wanted a group of people to assimilate some information, would you assign them to 100 hours in a classroom, or would you tell them that they could advance to the next subject once they demonstrated mastery of the subject, through passing a sequence of tests?

[wintertime]

I don’t understand how the Asians manage to standardize education and get great results while Americans can’t do it without screwing everything up.
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Their parents spent big bucks to send their kids to after-school tutoring schools.The tutoring schools are **PRVATE**! ( Gee! Imagine that!)

Maybe, just maybe, their government owned and run socialist-entitlement and single payer K-12 schools are just as crappy as our socialist-entitlement and single-payer schools!

[sunrise_sunset]

I assume you are not talking about the Philippines, which has an awful education system.

The definition of Asian is about as clear as the word Hispanic

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“I don’t understand how the Asians manage to standardize education and get great results while Americans can’t do it without screwing everything up.”

It probably has something to do with the notion that in most countries in the world, there is not an ever-widening cabal of smug and arrogant elites seeking to destroy the existing order or lack of order for their personal gain. At least not on a longstanding basis. I am not saying there aren’t plenty, indeed, a majority of politicians in every system seeking personal gain. There certainly are. But the great majority of them do not view their nations as rotting corpses where, if they not get their scrap of meat off the bones, there won’t be any left.