Category: education
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Illiteracy
Education is fundamentally a choice. Students choose to do their homework or not, to attend class or not, to take challenging or easy classes, etc. China released statistics today that show that more people are choosing to not go to school. Illiteracy rates in China before the PRC were always high. The character based language…
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Education, Chinese Style
The NYT Sunday magazine has an interesting article by Ann Hulbert, Re-Education, on the Chinese education system. Two great graphics accompany the article. The lettering is by Leanne Sharpton. For my money, the key paragraph is this: Chinese routinely say they wish the exam weren’t such a monolithic force, and various provinces have lately been…
Jeremy Wallace 