Link because I thought it wasn't real at first.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I'm going to be real with you, some things are more important than the desires of any one child. You need to insure that there are enough engineers for each generation, of which China needs more of every day, to manage technological modernization. This policy is clearly in existence to play catch up and measure ways to increase that engineering population.

    Calculus isn't even hard if you're taught it young enough and with goodcare. Plenty of studies are out there saying that teaching algebra for so long is actually a detriment to math knowledge

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      I mean, surely there are a lot of jobs that are societally important on that level, particularly if we're talking about in a country like the UK which doesn't have the same needs of modernization.

      Can't exactly squeeze in courses to prepare for each of them into one mandatory universal period of education.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        That's because they have a teacher shortage. People seem to think that China has overcome it's colonial past but it isn't uncommon for rural areas to only have one teacher, if they're lucky, for each village

        China has been unable, generally, to make universal policies due to a lack of an evenly distributed educated workforce but they are making strides