South Korea’s education system
The great decompression
There are perils for a country in having all your children working too hard for one big exam
Oct 26th 2013 |From the print edition
This seems like a small thing, and many Western countries would kill to have South Korea’s problem: it is hard to imagine British or American parents fretting that their teenagers work too hard. South Korea comes at or near the top of most international comparisons of reading, maths and science. But there are costs. A lot of effort goes into costly credentialism, rather than deep learning. The system excludes late-developing talent: blossom at 25, and it’s too late. And in the very long term it means a smaller country. The expense of educating children for the test is one reason why South Korean women give birth to so few of them. With the lowest fertility rate in the OECD rich-country club, South Korea’s greying threatens to be as rapid as its growth.
受験戦争に仕事中毒 かつて日本に言われていたことを韓国が言われ始めている。
韓国の成長モデルは日本だから、不思議ではないが、western countries の中心の発想も、相変わらず、というべき。
