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I don’t know if Finland as an example really proves or disproves anything. Finland is a small, homogeneous, and pretty unusual sort of country, and the fact tha
by ghda 7y ago
I don’t know if Finland as an example really proves or disproves anything. Finland is a small, homogeneous, and pretty unusual sort of country, and the fact that they happen to do well in certain standardised tests doesn’t mean that anything in particular they’re doing is optimised.
- fiblye 7y agoThis. Asian schools are great at providing high test scores. Their rigid education really drills the information into the kids and works well. But that incredible strictness simply would not work with most American children. The culture is simply incompatible with the strict discipline involved (and that’s not to say it’s bad, but only different). America’s trouble is that there are some majorly divided cultures living together, all under the label of “American”. What works for some people just won’t work for others.
- amibang 7y agoIs it perhaps that the Asian parents can use physical discipline against their kids, whereas e.g. White parents wouldn't get away with that so easily?
- fiblye 7y agoI don’t think that’s it. At all. Poorly performing students are often the ones who are “physically disciplined”. My most successful friends are generally the ones who had very supportive families who’d struggle to even raise their voices against someone.