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Posted by 3-9 on Thu Jan 5 04:27:57 2012, in response to Re: OP-ED: What Americans keep ignoring about Finland's school success, posted by PATHman on Thu Jan 5 03:41:26 2012. That's a good question. As an Asian, I think it's part natural, but I also think it's a lot cultural. Asian parents, I think, tend to push their kids to work and achieve and value good grades and education (translating to high motivation). Besides, I don't think it's good to generalize all Asians as really smart - you may have been focusing on the really smart Asians and not on the ones who weren't so smart (I knew a few of those too). For instance, when I took pre-calc, linear algebra and other high-end math classes, I stumbled and fell flat on my face 8-S. Paying for it even to this day - I could really use some of those concepts now, like handling vectors. |
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