https://xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2097511936728649809
based on the replies, europe aint coming out of this anytime soon, since there seems to be a complete unwillingness to actually deal with the issue. instead, what we see is the racism reflexes of the ethnically fascist europeans coming out
There is a lot of denial in the west, people who’ve been taught they’re special and superior to everyone else are having a hard time adjusting to the world where the west is no longer at the top.
But what does this really mean? School is about developing critical thinking, regardless of whether you know every Shakespear madterpiece or whether you know how to resolve second order differetial equations. Cinese education surpassed western education years ago and they are now picking the fruits of that effort.
Yet, i think the real tragedy of western schooking and young people is social media. Its making our kids dumb any the are loosing their critical ability, ability to ask questions and find answers, ability to be curious. Yes, the western world is on a downward trend but it doesn’t have to be the end.
i see it as history repeating itself since various regions/areas/peoples of the east went through their own similar trends.
west asia – for example – was a bastion of philosophy, science and math during the dark ages, but went through an anti-intellectualism period that created the asia minor, levant, and gulf region we know today. the same w east asia as it went into its isolationist period in the 13/14th century.
if we’re lucky, this downward trend won’t have to last centuries like the 2 examples i’ve shared, but we should expect it since that’s how history keeps telling us that it will happen … again.
Climate change, COVID, late stage capitalism, fascism, social media… The so-called polycrisis. It’s no wonder kids aren’t as enthusiastic about learning anymore. I wouldn’t be either.
The so-called polycrisis
It’s called capitalism.
and in case anybody is wondering how other countries are doing
what confuses me about china here is that they only test 4 provinces.
i’d be interested in the result for the whole country
The system in China is fairly standardized, so I’d expect the results would be similar.
I wouldn’t, what works in an overpopulated hellhole won’t work so well when you have less than a hundred students in the school
Given high social mobility in China, it appears that the education system does work consistently. Also, not sure what these overpopulated hellholes are.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html
