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> My partner is Hungarian and they put an emphasis on rigorous education across the board that we (in the UK or at least my part of it) don't. I wonder if this
by Swizec 5y ago
> My partner is Hungarian and they put an emphasis on rigorous education across the board that we (in the UK or at least my part of it) don't.
I wonder if this is an Austro-Hungary effect or a central Europe thing. Every country I know of that follows the German education system is considered to “put an emphasis on rigorous education across the board”.
Whenever we compare notes from my Slovenian schooling with American friends it seems like the US education system is a joke by comparison.
Although in official rankings we score lower so who knows. Maybe I just got lucky
- riffraff 5y agoI believe this is the average experience of most in Europe, I am Italian and I find the US (lower) education system worse than the Italian one too, and we score _terribly_ in all international rankings. I believe it's probably a different distribution: european education is maybe flattened around the average, while in the US there is possibly a wider distribution.
- ricardobayes 5y agoIt's called the prussian school model, focuses heavily on memorizing and lexical knowledge. But is very poor on teamwork and preparing you for real life. Prussian (German) society needed reliable factory workers so that's why school starts so early (7:30-8:00 AM) to pretty much condition children to get up early, be obedient and just focus on the job.
- contingencies 5y agoGermany at least has a parallel system of industrial apprenticeships and guilds which is a global success story.