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Asian students carry high expectations for success

Svnla

Svnla

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Since schools will be in session soon and I saw this article:


The difference between Asian and American education systems is cultural.

Throughout much of Asia, education is seen as the only path to success. Parental demands, fear of failure, competition and pride are fueling Asia's academic ascension.

Simply put, children in Asia study with a purpose.
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Go to school to learn, not to keep it real or gang up to beat up other students or be a lazy bum, shocking eh? 😛


"Considering the U.S. spends more money per student than any other country, but we're showing up in the middle of the pack, is clearly a cause for concern," said Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.
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Throwing more money into schools with students that do not want to learn = not going to work.



Full story = http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-carry-high-expectations-for-success/2615483/
 
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this is what i have always said! there are far too many idiotic kids who dont realize that doing well in school is one of the surest tickets to success. all most cared about was squeaking by with the least effort possible. sports were way more important than grades. or cheerleading. or beating me up. or whatever.

now that i make double to triple of what most of those goons make, it is i who have the last laugh.
 
Go to school to learn, not to keep it real or gang up to beat up other students or be a lazy bum, shocking eh? 😛
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But, but, but I graduated with a BS in comp E.


And graduated to ditch digger for my bro, with his 10th grade ed.

Life ain't effn fair.

🙄 ID10T, right here.
 
Svnla said:
Since schools will be in session soon and I saw this article:




Go to school to learn, not to keep it real or gang up to beat up other students or be a lazy bum, shocking eh? 😛




Throwing more money into schools with students that do not want to learn = not going to work.



Full story = http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...-carry-high-expectations-for-success/2615483/
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The problem is the Parents. Shitty parents = shitty students. You cant build a castle on a foundation of mud.
 
Wow, who would have thought working hard would get a result. I wonder if it works that way in real life, maybe they should make a study. 😛

This "back to school" time of year also reminds me of how happy I am to be done school. I used to dread having to go back.
 
Hugo Drax said:
The problem is the Parents. Shitty parents = shitty students. You cant build a castle on a foundation of mud.
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Prince Herbert's father would disagree.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Is American culture to blame for that thread title?
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:biggrin:

The SE Asian work ethic is kind of amazing TBH. The attitude is a great asset to have and to work with, but TBH some of those dude's take it WAY to far to the point of misery and exhaustion. I remember one dude, worked TWO full time jobs and he was a great guy, but you could just visibly see how miserable he was.

Damn bro, enjoy life a little. :colbert:
 
brianmanahan said:
now that i make double to triple of what most of those goons make, it is i who have the last laugh.
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Until their bastard children decide to vandalize your property and you get sent to prison and sued for every penny for disfiguring their pretty little faces. It used to be that you could legally teach children discipline, but not anymore.
 
I was talking to a lady from Hong Kong last year, and she said the fact that Asians value teachers who have practical experiece in their field of learning plays a big role in educational discrepancies.

I had WAY to many teachers here that had spent their entire lives in an academic cocoon.
 
Some strange stats in the OP.

US actually comes 55th in the percentage of GDP spent on education, according to UN surveys.
Looking at gross expenditure is meaningless. You could say that there is a strong positive correlation between % GDP spent on schools and scholastic success of pupils. This only holds for economies where the state assumes responsibility for the quality of education. Several third world nations skew the data because their GDP is so low that any expenditure on education seems impressive. But comparing countries in the G20 the data makes more sense.

Using that method Denmark does well.

Asian students who reach American and European schools tend to do well because they have been filtered through the sieves of poverty and ambition.
There are plenty of dim Asians if you study their countries of origin rather than their destination.

In the UK the weakest students are white males. Yet, ironically the best schools, (Westminster for example) are also full of white males getting top grades in everything. So, to make sense of these contradictions we need to consider class as well as ethnicity. Sadly it is no longer PC to measure class x expenditure x ethnicity so the stats that get published are usually pretty close to garbage, IMO.
 
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