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[Hawgdriver]

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[Baby, ByeBye]

Originally Posted by AAABBBCCC

You dont know what you are talking about? Maybe you should leave your donkey pen and talk to some Peking grads. I know several Peking grads and they all say Peking sucks for education. The kids there just **** around.

And I happen to know Peking grads too, and they say otherwise

[magillaG]

Originally Posted by Colonel Smoothie

China is good with primary education, but it's higher-education is lacking, because it still relies heavily on rote memory rather than creative problem solving.

So the U.S. has better colleges (but not good primary schools), but with the way things are going now I wouldn't be surprised if China eventually surpasses us.

I interpret this a little differently. I think the US is racing to the sort of education that does well on standardized tests, but does not encourage original thinking as well. China is doing the opposite, from what I understand. From talking to people, my anecdotal, limited experience is that Chinese schooling does a better job of giving students specialized knowledge, but doesn't prepare them to think on their own as well. (This would include college.)

[Dismal Science]

Originally Posted by Baby, ByeBye

And I happen to know Peking grads too, and they say otherwise

Please just move back to China already. Your nationalism will help you go far.

[LICENSED TO ILL]

Originally Posted by Dismal Science

Please just move back to China already. Your nationalism will help you go far.

[Baby, ByeBye]

Originally Posted by Dismal Science

Please just move back to China already. Your nationalism will help you go far.

Um. I'm not from China tyvm. but keep trolling with your many alts.

[Baby, ByeBye]

Originally Posted by LICENSED TO ILL

[FoxNews]

FoxNews has confirmed that Peking University needs a course in phonics

[AAABBBCCC]

Originally Posted by Baby, ByeBye

And I happen to know Peking grads too, and they say otherwise

They dont say otherwise. You are just making shit up. What I am telling you is the truth. The students dont have to work hard once they get admission into the top chinese Universities like peking. They spend their teenage years studying like machines to get into University, but after that it is just a joy ride. The ones that want to gtfo of china work super hard to get into top american PhD programs.


The ones that work hard in University are the indian students at top indian schools like those in the IIT system.

[Colonel Smoothie]

Originally Posted by AAABBBCCC

The students dont have to work hard once they get admission into the top chinese Universities like peking. They spend their teenage years studying like machines to get into University, but after that it is just a joy ride. The ones that want to gtfo of china work super hard to get into top american PhD programs.

Eh, it's kind of like that here in the U.S. Once you get into that elite special liberal arts school, it's just a joy ride and handshakes with a bunch of rich kids (then again, if you were born poor, they won't want to hang out with you).

What needs to happen is that once you make it into an elite school, they need to keep the failure rate at around 30% to maintain the pressure and have them compete (which I think still happens at some engineering schools).