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Famously places like china/india/japan/etc have extremely traumatic final exams. There was just an article about suicides from some kind of (indian?) final exam

Famously places like china/india/japan/etc have extremely traumatic final exams. There was just an article about suicides from some kind of (indian?) final exam screw up. It doesn't take much of a logical leap to associate it with the pressure put on the children taking the tests. Presumably that kind of pressure ia coming to america.

7402 2mo ago
children? Showing my age here, I guess. Fifty years ago, 18-year-olds in college were referred to as "men" and "women."
- nobodyandproud 2mo ago
  You must've heard the viral claims that the brain doesn't fully develop until 26? Nevermind that actual findings like https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031606.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031606.h... and https://scitechdaily.com/your-brain-doesnt-magically-finish-developing-at-25-heres-what-actually-happens/ https://scitechdaily.com/your-brain-doesnt-magically-finish-... say something completely different. Though auto-insurance claims do show some truth to late teens and early twenties drivers being...not mentally ready.
- wredcoll 2mo ago
  50 years ago a lot of people were called a lot of things. As a society we haven't really figured out how to talk about periods of life when there's more than "child" and "adult". It is, of course, simpler and easier to just draw some arbitrary lines and treat everyone the same but I'm unconvinced that simpler and easier is the right metric here.
ux266478 2mo ago
American culture incorporates a sense of institutional nihilism that India and China do not have (at a large scale). As globalism winds down and population contraction starts to take hold, it seems far more likely to me that the resulting labor dynamics will end up killing the post-war approach to higher education, particularly as white collar jobs end up constituting less of the economy.

7402 2mo ago

children? Showing my age here, I guess. Fifty years ago, 18-year-olds in college were referred to as "men" and "women."

nobodyandproud 2mo ago
You must've heard the viral claims that the brain doesn't fully develop until 26? Nevermind that actual findings like https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031606.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260218031606.h... and https://scitechdaily.com/your-brain-doesnt-magically-finish-developing-at-25-heres-what-actually-happens/ https://scitechdaily.com/your-brain-doesnt-magically-finish-... say something completely different. Though auto-insurance claims do show some truth to late teens and early twenties drivers being...not mentally ready.
wredcoll 2mo ago
50 years ago a lot of people were called a lot of things. As a society we haven't really figured out how to talk about periods of life when there's more than "child" and "adult". It is, of course, simpler and easier to just draw some arbitrary lines and treat everyone the same but I'm unconvinced that simpler and easier is the right metric here.

ux266478 2mo ago

American culture incorporates a sense of institutional nihilism that India and China do not have (at a large scale). As globalism winds down and population contraction starts to take hold, it seems far more likely to me that the resulting labor dynamics will end up killing the post-war approach to higher education, particularly as white collar jobs end up constituting less of the economy.