for you to be expressing doubts about the state of education in China, now and in the future, is ... how shall I say, oh, well never mind.
Our right wing do not understand it either. In fact most educators do not understand it. Japan knows there is something wrong with their education system, but they can't seem to get a fix on it.
I am not talking about test scores. I am not talking about no child left behind. I am talking about what makes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkely different than anything they have in China and almost everywhere else.
In fact, I do not think most people at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley know what it is either. If they did, they wouldn't be given diploma's to many of their graduates. Some glaring names come to mind.
Nevertheless, IMO China has not come close to building elite centers of learning. I don't think it can be done with anything resembling a closed mind (like many of our own right wing). I don't think it can be done by control freaks.
as in regard to the rest, all easily, as in effortlessly, explainable by the 300 years long accident, which is already at an end, and so not a matter for concern, like the previous year's annual report on any company.
Okay, anybody can have a few bad centuries. But how do you know it is over?
There is no doubt that China has mastered manufacturing, but where is the innovation? Where is the creativity? Where is the ability to articulate a vision? Where is the Chinese TobagoJack? |
