The Global Search for Education: China – To Follow Or Not To Follow?
“Schooling and the economy are less intimately connected than people realize. A nation’s education system grows out of its larger culture; graft a foreign system onto a different culture and the plant will never flourish.” — Gene Glass Author Yong Zhao has plenty to say about the dangerous consequences of China’s educational authoritarianism and he has begun to convince some very important leaders of global...
The Global Search for Education: Creative China
“In general, any education system that highlights achievement and goals above process and attitude is, in my opinion, bad for students.” — Jiang Xueqin Jiang Xueqin believes that the very best American institutions of learning have “a culture and tradition of openness, diversity, and risk-taking that China must emulate if China is to progress as a society and as a culture.” Jiang Xueqin would know; he is...
The Global Search for Education: The Middle East
“The need for 21st century human capital is creating new pressure on the existing education systems to be effective and fully capable of catering to the specific needs of each student.” — Amin Amin How can we better structure our education systems to ensure that the future working population can prosper in the labor market? Today’s technology has already endangered a large range of 20th century jobs and will...
The Global Search for Education: East vs. West – News from Malaysia
“The real challenge for the Malaysian education system is twofold. Firstly, it is to embrace and engage in real and sustainable change, and secondly, to strive for the equity and excellence that the high performing systems around the word embody.” – Alma Harris Why is transformation needed in the Malaysian education system and how will it best be secured and sustained? In the latest PISA tests, Malaysia scored 52nd...
The Global Search for Education: East vs. West – Part 1
“While there is rich cultural diversity in Asian countries, it is not as pronounced or complex as in many Western systems such as the USA and the UK. In inner city London it is perfectly possible for a teacher to be facing a class of children with ten to fifteen different languages.” — Alma Harris Is education in the East superior to education in the West? Today I begin a new series that explores this question with...
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