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Posted by JayMan on Thu Jan 5 10:39:37 2012, in response to Re: OP-ED: What Americans keep ignoring about Finland's school success, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Jan 5 08:11:21 2012. I got an answer this summer, when I went to a local pizza shop for lunch. An academy had just let out for lunch. The place was packed with students from the academy. There are about half a dozen such academies within a five block radius of my home. Those kids were studying the same courses they get in high school.There may be a genetic factor but I believe that the Asian achievement differential is the result of hard work. That hard work isn't limited to the public school system As Malcolm Gladwell beautifully illustrates in Outliers (and in so doing, proving the exact opposite of what he was trying to), East Asians have been selected for a willingness to work hard and intelligence more so that most other groups, owing to their history as rice farmers. Hard work cannot make up for a lack of talent, especially at the higher levels. East Asians may work hard, but they achieve because they have the brains to make that work pay off. |
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