Interesting. I'd be curious if perhaps other industries/services are better in Canada... for example, restaurant service, accounting services, etc. There coul

Interesting. I'd be curious if perhaps other industries/services are better in Canada... for example, restaurant service, accounting services, etc. There could simply be an aspect of the supply of qualified labor -- if Canada has 5% greater supply of qualified workers for a given position, then some of them will have to work in a job that is beneath them, in which they will overperform. Canada generally has a slightly higher unemployment rate than the US, so arguably this results in some degree of labor under-utilization and overperformance... this may be the case with Canadian teachers and could be enough to explain the superiority. I think your point about the varying attributes of private schools is quite insightful. I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, considering how much rote memorization of facts I was put through in the name of "education". I still don't know what I would do to educate a child. I think home schooling would be very difficult to do well, and I do idealize some of the best (public and private) school environments...