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0 pointsSomeone9y ago0 comments

All the way down to kindergarten. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-wp-china-schools-6ccb...:

"When Doudou Wong from Shanghai was four, she began attending additional math, Chinese, and English classes outside of her weekday kindergarten"

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pjlegato9y ago

And the worst part: This sort of draconian training regimen doesn't even work. If it did, China would have far more Nobel Prizes than it does.

yyhhsj05219y ago

It works [1]. The problem is that Nobel Prize has little to do with kindergarten and average people.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/dec/03/pisa-r...

Noseshine9y ago

Test scores are a strange definition of "it works" in the given context.

ken479y ago

Why are you assuming that the goal of the regimen is to produce Nobel Prizes?

madengr9y ago

Wow, that's f'd up.

sjg0079y ago

It actually goes all the way down to the womb and then to conception.

imjustsaying9y ago

Shanghai is completely different from the rest of China.

Comparing Shanghai education to US education is like comparing the best school district in the US to the average school district of China.

As with many things the communists parade around, you will be shown the front gates, but you won't be shown anything past it lest you realize you're seeing the facade of a movie set.

simonh9y ago

Parents paying for their children to get additional lessons to get an educational advantage isn't something you'll see 'communists parading around'. In fact the article makes it clear that the official position is that kindergarten teaching should be low pressure and using cramming classes is discouraged.

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