...”Basically, what they do in asia is spend 12 hours a day memorizing the answers to government tests and standardized tests. Americans better think long and hard before saying that this is a model system of education worth emulating.”...
Mr. Ethan, Americans would do much much better to do a little memorization, like, of the Constitution of the United States. I know several Asians and some of them are brilliant thinkers and problem solvers. They excel because they are intelligent and they have a work ethic in school. Their culture teaches them the importance of that. They take advantage of the strength of their youth to study and learn unlike American students who, for the most part, would rather play video games, listen to rap music, have sex and have babies while in high school. Asians will be abused by the current powers that be in this country because they are a minority. It is called racism and the Mayor of New York is trying to institutionalize it.
Ah, yes, the chinese value education, while the americans, who are lazy and stupid, do not. As proof of this, we see that China is brimming with fantastic schools. After all, their culture values education. And we also see hordes of chinese-americans applying to get in to these fantastic chinese Harvards.
Oh, wait, we don't.