Education - US vs. S. Korea

response to  Max Joseph, Tom Van Buskirk, and George Langford's post Education

author cheyroze

I have a few friends who teach English in South Korea, which is ranked number one in Education. The children there spend the vast majority of their lives in school - I believe that its like 10 hours a day including private schools in addition to public - then they go home to do homework! The children are taught to fiercely compete with their classmates by kindergarten. They don't have a chance to be children, have an imagination and play.

I don't know if its worth trading our children's imagination for higher math scores. But I know that the US could do better for all the cash we throw at the school system.

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