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Every Russian and ex-Soviet I've ever met was extremely proud of their school system, which arose from the Soviet system.
by quacked 5y ago
Every Russian and ex-Soviet I've ever met was extremely proud of their school system, which arose from the Soviet system.
- rsj_hn 5y agoThey really did a great job at math. The humanities were terrible, it was hopelessly politicized. But if you didn't want to deal with constant lectures about the struggles of the working classes, or constant coursework on marxism-leninism, you studied math or physics, or engineering. It helped, of course, that the government had as a national policy the promotion of STEM. But they did an amazing job at it, and produced a fantastic crop of world-changing talent.
- geomark 5y agoWhat a great approach. The easy social studies courses are made so horribly boring that it drives students to study the hard sciences.