POSTED ON BEHALF OF DOUG

Asian educational superiority is a myth. Shanghai is totally unrepresentitive. If USA entered only Massachusetts in PISA they would lead. China does not have a university in the top 50 in the world and 2 in the top 100. It has the world’s highest number of illiterates after India by % not raw numbers. The HS system is heavily streamed into “key schools”. It is like judging the American system by Harvard and Yale.

They are great calculators in math but terrible problem solvers. Chinese parents with money all want their kids in the west for a good education.

Yes Confusian obedience gives orderly schools but look at the kids in the back row of any high school. Head down sleeping.

There’s more to it than meets the eye.  Asian parents expect more from their children.  We see it in the difference in attitudes between immigrant and native-born Asian parents.

“Compared to native-born Asian parents, immigrant Asian parents are nine times more likely have aspirations that their child will complete a university degree.”  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/do-asian-parents-expect-more-of-their-children/article612351/

The author points out that this holds for other immigrants groups as well.

So what is it about the Canadian school system that makes parents who have passed through it NOT expect their children to go to university?