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China does not care what you want, and neither does the market economy. They want you to be what they need. There are two ways to sort it out: teach people how
by AstralStorm 7y ago
China does not care what you want, and neither does the market economy. They want you to be what they need.
There are two ways to sort it out: teach people how to learn first, and teach them how a (small) variety of professions that are in demand work.
Only then, specialization. Current Chinese model is to identify talents early then force specialize and reject people even at advanced stages, leaving them with nothing.
Western model used to be more general even a century back, but is going now more the same way.
People are passed without working knowledge of estimation and arithmetics even, have no idea about basic politics and more.
- newguy1234 7y agoOh yeah, I completely agree. An ideal education system needs to be something that is more open to everyone and able to teach people at different levels and for different purposes. Have courses for vocational skills and courses for more academic/theoretical type learning. The factory model of education is obsolete.
- AstralStorm 7y agoIt's not the old factory model at all. It's the model taken from competitive sports. It is superior in employing talent but leaves many broken people ultimately resulting in social costs. Short name: rat race. Old factory model provided identical education, relatively broad, to everyone (zero help if you got stuck) - and provided single vocational education on top. (Including research vocations.) Yet more ancient one started with a trade education based on propinquity; rather than scouting and filtering.