Asia's Cult of Intelligence versus the US' Cult of Ignorance

[krazen1211]

Strange, given that US spending on the government education industry complex dwarfs Japan on a per capita basis.

But I suppose they don't have a moocher problem.

[krazen1211]

This isn't very surprising to hear from a liberal university professor. Of course he would value the contributions of his own profession to society above all others, the lazy moocher. He seems to think that you can come full circle by increasing funding to the government education industry complex. The only result is that the unions win and the common man loses. I hope he gets fired so that he can find a real job and stop mooching off the public treasury.

All good points! These are thrifty and crafty folk. Japan shows a good path to winning the treasury back.


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Teachers’ wages in almost all countries in the world have been on an increase over the last ten years. In Japan, however, their wages were reduced by 9% during the same period of time.

Compared to 21.2 pupils on the OECD average, 28 children on average are crammed in one classroom in elementary schools in Japan, and 32.9 students in junior high schools as of 2010, making the class size in Japan the second largest among OECD member states.

[krazen1211]

Strange, given that US spending on the government education industry complex dwarfs Japan on a per capita basis.

But I suppose they don't have a moocher problem.

I really love it when you present cherry-picked statistics that demonstrate once again the adage that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

In both Korea and Japan, there is such an extensive system of privately-funded tutoring to make up for the deficiencies of their public education system that only those unable to afford it fail to get their children private tutoring on a scale Kaplan would kill to even get a fraction of that if you add those costs, Korea and Japan are actually spending more per capita than the US.  As for including Luxembourg as one of the cherries, it's absurdly high GDP means that on a percentage of GDP basis it spends about three-fourths that of the US.

Yeah, there are problems with American education, but your monomania on moochers as being the root cause of the problem to the level of ignoring all other causes just does not stand up to scrutiny, krazen.

It is certainly strange to see a liberal explain the merits of a private sector model, especially in this industry.

But of course, there are oranges, apples, and grapes. And there is comparing apples to oranges and calling both grapes. Boosting the Japan side by accounting for private spending while failing to do the same for the United States is certainly one of the above. In the United States our massive public sector figures are only 70% of the total; 30% comes elsewhere. We are right there with both nations in this category.

Or, perhaps you'd prefer this graph, which adds up public and private spending.



Congratulations. We are still Goliath. But that's the point, isn't it?