rae
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rae
6d ago
Education, at least in STEM fields, was one of the few areas where the Soviet system arguably outcompeted the American one though. They went from a society of illiterate farmers to dominating in Math olympiads, chess, getting most of the early milestones in the space race, and had more women in STEM than probably a lot of the West has today. Quite impressive given the degree to which their economy was crippled by central planning and ideological suppression.
Wait a minute… if the standards for actual schools are so lax as to make them effectively pointless, and parents are spending enormous sums on tutors and exam coaching, why not have a private school where the curriculum is just exam coaching in the first place? Or just “home school”, i.e. tutor the child during schooling hours instead of wasting their whole day?
Seems like home schooling and alternative schools are legal in India already, so why bother with the whole charade?
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