Are you as stupid as the British children?

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Raymond Lin said:
I saw this piece of news about 18 hours ago, wondering when it would turn up here.

It's not just about just the teacher not let the kids worrying about meaningless exams, it is the entire culture of education. In the far east, growing up, not only you have a background and culture of education is the key drone into you from an early age, the necessity of study and do good in school comes first and you are reminded of it every day. This idea of parents are happy with whatever their children do with their life as long as they are happy doesn't really exists if the child wants to be a bin man (no offence to bin man). They want their child to be successful and the most guaranteed way to be successful is through education.

Secondly, the parents puts pressure into the child to do well, then along with that, since everyone wants to do well, it creates a competition in a class room. You are rated against you peers in your school, ranked 1 - 400 (or whatever) in all subjects and then total rank in your year. In the UK, it causes uproar and would think a low rank on your child would be detriment to it's mental state...quite the opposite thinking in the far east. If you suck, you suck, stop moaning and do better next time. That's the truth so accept it, that is the attitude.

So the entire system, from parents in the home, from the mentality of the children, to the school are set up to push children better all the time. It would be impossible to put that here in the UK because there isn't that mentality to begin with. There will always be bright pupils who will do well and want to do well. But those who wants to coast through school will coast through school, if they go to school in the far east, they would probably be bottom of the class.
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This really, in the UK you get bullied if you do well in exams, in other countries especially in Asia school and life is seen as a competition to do as well as possible in, to try hard and put in a lot of effort to help you succeed in life.
 
D.P. said:
This really, in the UK you get bullied if you do well in exams, in other countries especially in Asia school and life is seen as a competition to do as well as possible in, to try hard and put in a lot of effort to help you succeed in life.
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In the UK it's cool to be dumb, just look at most new program's and they celebrate the vapid celebrity and the everyday moron.

We are in a race to the bottom, it's no wonder the UK is sinking out of any meaningful position in the world.
 
desires said:
I got 6 out of 6 using just my brain.
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What else would you use?

Raymond Lin said:
I saw this piece of news about 18 hours ago, wondering when it would turn up here.

It's not just about just the teacher not let the kids worrying about meaningless exams, it is the entire culture of education. In the far east, growing up, not only you have a background and culture of education is the key drone into you from an early age, the necessity of study and do good in school comes first and you are reminded of it every day. This idea of parents are happy with whatever their children do with their life as long as they are happy doesn't really exists if the child wants to be a bin man (no offence to bin man). They want their child to be successful and the most guaranteed way to be successful is through education.

Secondly, the parents puts pressure into the child to do well, then along with that, since everyone wants to do well, it creates a competition in a class room. You are rated against you peers in your school, ranked 1 - 400 (or whatever) in all subjects and then total rank in your year. In the UK, it causes uproar and would think a low rank on your child would be detriment to it's mental state...quite the opposite thinking in the far east. If you suck, you suck, stop moaning and do better next time. That's the truth so accept it, that is the attitude.

So the entire system, from parents in the home, from the mentality of the children, to the school are set up to push children better all the time. It would be impossible to put that here in the UK because there isn't that mentality to begin with. There will always be bright pupils who will do well and want to do well. But those who wants to coast through school will coast through school, if they go to school in the far east, they would probably be bottom of the class.
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Where does Jackie Stewart and Richard Branson fall under that?
 
RDM said:
Your working out is flawed, the answer is 720 as every 5 seconds 2 people can enter the door.

30mins in seconds is 1800 seconds.
1800/5 = 360 chances for 2 people to enter the door.
360 chances x 2 people = 720 people.
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When you look at it that way you're right :confused:. I got it correct on the quiz because I followed the route it was suggesting...

6 people in door at any given time and the door take a minute to do a full rotation so I did...

6 people x 4 rotations = 24 people a minute
24x30 = 720 in 30 mins.

Then I realised that actually if people are only entering then you'd only ever have 4 people in the door system at any given time which then changes the above formula's answer to 480.

I think i know where I went wrong in my attempt at being a smartass ;)
 
There's more than that. Probably more that don't get recognition. Since we don't report success.
 
V F said:
There's more than that. Probably more that don't get recognition.
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Obviously so. However that doesn't mean that the national, average, trend is any different to what was described above. Take any statistic based on averages, and you'll find those at the extremes, both top and bottom; you're just giving examples of the top end there.

As you've not really given an opinion, do you disagree with the post you quoted in general?
 
Not really. It's not changed much in my time since the mid 90's. Only it's become worse. He is right, it's a culture problem.

I can't see it changing anytime soon.
 
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The Chinese always come out well in these sort of tests yet when it comes to innervation they fall way behind western countries.
 
DAnDan said:
You're really going to use two people as evidence against a national trend?!
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In our celebrity culture, where we reward idiocy, lack of education, and outward disdain for doing well at school, you can hold up any unqualified person as a basion for British Culture. Chris Moyles is a great example of this.

It is a terrible thing.
Whilst we don't need fifteen hour a day schooling, anyone stating, i don't do maths, or I am no good at maths, should be vilified, and encouraged to at least get additional education for their children, so we don't genetically refine our country into mathematical dullards.

While differentiation and integration might beyond many, simple maths, mental challenges, percentages, interest rates apply to all in life and should be taught over and over until people get it.
 
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