Asian emphasis on Education

[mrcfo]

10 years ago, dropouts were nearly non existant in Japan, but today there are literally thousands. It's slowly changing and I think it's good thing.

Asian tradition from Japan to Vietnam has always emphasised the importance of education as a key and often determinant to success. Tradtional avenues in medicine, law and technology are always respected whilst degrees in arts, fine arts and other "non mainstream" lines of work have always been frowned up.

Perhaps this is why many Asians are followers rather than leaders. I think with the change in the iron grip view of education = success, comes a good thing or two. We will see more creativity amongst Asians and developing new professions as well as becoming leaders. Note that most innovations start off as being wild ideas that extends beyond thinking within the box.

[yoMAMA]

well as asian countries becomes more and more affluent, the younger generation is bound to have more slackers.

Japan and south korea are already industrialized countries, and their rise can be attributed to an emphasis on a highly educated workforce.

[hooligan]

Asians are leaders. It's just hard to see past Asian values compared to Asian American (Pacific Islander) values.

[Emperor_Mike]

Is it really a good thing to have the emphasis on education decreasing? A slight shift from the "traditional" venues of medicine, law, and technology perhaps, but anything more than that and we'll be running the risk of a growing "unproductive" gap in Asian societies. Moreover, idle hands are the Devil's playthings.

[Warhawk_1]

I'd think it's more likely that this will lessen the likelihood of Asians being leaders. If education isn't thought of as being one of the most important things in success, and the dropout rate increases, I'd think it's more likely a sign of a society's decay than anything else. A dropout is a dropout, and when he's become that, there's very little in life that he/she can do that will ever be anything of consequence. So that's why I think that.

If by de-emphasis on education, you mean that independence is encouraged more though along with "people skills", I can see where you're coming from. I know a lot of kids whose parents went medieval on them, banning their internet, video games, contact with the outside world, etc. One guy is so dysfunctional that I just stopped hanging out with him completely.

Objectives for when I go to college:
1. Get him away from his mom.
2. Get him drunk.
3. Get him laid.

Now if that isn't leadership, I don't know what is.