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Oh wow, thanks for the post, this is really insightful. Do you know why students have to resort to cheat and corruption for passing tests and going trough the

• tsimionescu 5y ago
  I am not an expert by any means, but I believe one of the main reasons is that there is a fixed national curriculum, that includes many different domains, with the same standards for everyone, usually withab a huge focus on knowledge accumulation and rote learning. The mentality is often centered around knowing and being able to repeat facts and formulae. The curriculum often goes into deep detail on relatively obscure subjects with no or very little context. Combined with poor teachers (both in terms of performance and financially), this leads to many, if not most, students being relatively left behind. For an example of the top-level mentality, the compulsory school system used to include K-12 until a few years ago. In high-school, you used to have anorganic chemistry in grades 9 and 10, and organic chemistry in grades 11 and 12. After the move to K-10, the curriculum was adjusted to have anorganic chemistry in grades 9 and 11, and organic in 10 and 12, with the cited reasoning being that you can't have students graduating out of high-school without knowing the basics of organic chemistry, can you? This, again, in a country where a good third or more of those students can actually barely read - they've been lost since around grade 2-3.