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11-05-2014, 11:40 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

South Korea is rated number one according to this ranking* by Pearson and the EIU. And other education league tables also rank it highly.

But we know that over 200 Southern Korean students obeyed orders, and drowned as a result.They behaved like sheep rather than intelligent human beings.They were not sceptical enough. Is this what education all about? Behaving like sheep?

When the PAP govt and its trumpeters and drummers in our constructive, nation-building media laud our education system citing these int’l league tables, remember the Korean kids who drowned. My test would be, https://atans1.wordpress.com/2014/05...e-meaningless/ (https://atans1.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/why-global-education-league-rankings-are-meaningless/)


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