EN — LARRY ROMANOFF: If America dissolves . . . (Revisited)

 January 31, 2021

 If America dissolves...

By Larry Romanoff  

 

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PT -- LARRY ROMANOFF --- Como é que a China avalia e escolhe os seus dirigentes? Compreender o sistema universitário da China -- July 26, 2021

  

Como é que a China avalia e escolhe os seus dirigentes? Compreender o sistema universitário da China

Por Larry Romanoff, Julho 26, 2021

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Muitos ocidentais têm, no mínimo, um conhecimento limitado sobre o Gaokao da China, o sistema de exames anuais de admissão à universidade, realizados por cerca de 10 milhões de estudantes por ano. Este conjunto de exames é bastante rígido e talvez até mesmo despótico, abrangendo muitos assuntos e ocupando três dias. Os exames exigem uma boa capacidade de compreensão, conhecimento profundo e grande inteligência, para serem bem sucedidos. Estes exames são inteiramente baseados no mérito de cada aluno e é impossível haver favoritismo. Os alunos que produzem as notas mais altas nestes exames estão no ponto culminante de 1% de um conjunto de 1,5 bilião de pessoas. 

Poucos ocidentais sabem que a China também tem um sistema de exames imposto pela Ordem dos Advogados e que todos os advogados diplomados devem passar para poderem exercer advocacia na China. Estes exames são ainda mais rigorosos, exigindo não só um elevado grau de inteligência, como também um profundo conhecimento das leis e uma ampla compreensão de todos os assuntos legais, sendo estes exames tão difíceis que muitos se recusam até mesmo a tentar fazê-los. Dos cerca de 250.000 advogados diplomados que cumprem esta imposição, apenas cerca de 20.000 serão aprovados e obterão qualificações para exercer efectivamente advocacia na China. Se for apresentado a um advogado chinês, pode ter a certeza de que está a lidar com alguém que faz parte da porção mais altamente qualificada do 1% desse mesmo grupo de um bilião e meio de pessoas.

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Larry Romanoff -- Substandard Education in America

Substandard Education in America

By Larry Romanoff

Global Research, November 08, 2019

Region: USA

Theme: History

 

We know all the criticisms. China’s children are taught only to memorise and not to think or question. They are rote-learning robots without capacity for original thought. They know only how to produce high scores but not to apply any knowledge. They have no creativity, no imagination, no concept of innovation. The classes are too large; there is no individual attention paid to students. The entire Chinese educational system is corrupt and failing. But this is all nonsense, yet one more foolish myth propagated by the Americans. There has never been any evidence to document such claims which, like so many others, are fabricated solely on an imaginary moral superiority.

The quality of American education, as we will see, is far lower than the world has been led to believe, and the quality in China is in many cases much superior to that in the US. Americans might care to ask why it is that Chinese elementary or high school students moving to the US are often promoted by one or two grades. The reason is that they know so much more than their American counterparts they would suffer terminal boredom if forced to remain at their prior grade level. If we refer to the PISA tests, Shanghai’s math scores were 119 above the OECD average, or the equivalent of nearly three years of schooling, with reading and science exceeding the OECD average by about 1.5 years of schooling. And in some cases, the American students were behind the OECD average by approximately the same number of years as the Chinese were ahead.

The myth persists that the US has always led the world in quality of education, but this is nothing more than branding propaganda and part of the indoctrination process of American moral superiority that is wholly unsupported by facts. Consider this quote from an American education expert:

“The US has never been first in the world, nor even near the top, on any international tests. Consistently over the past half century, American students have typically scored near the median at best, but most often being in the bottom quartile. The historical record indicates that American elementary students are only average at best, their performance degrading year by year until high school seniors perform last in almost all international tests. The International Science Studies that began in high schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s found that 14-year-olds were below average and seniors scored last of all countries. In the International Mathematics tests that began in the 1960s, American high school seniors scored last of all nations. In the 1982 International Mathematics Study, high school seniors placed at the bottom on almost every test. In terms of the PISA tests, American students – placing last – are simply following the pattern that has been consistent for the past 50 years or more.”