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Really recommend watching The Last Train Home. It's a documentary about a family that works in Guangzhou in order to pay for their children's education in their rural village. Deals with many of these same issues. And is a haunting and fantastic documentary. Also it's available on netflix
I would be interested to see some analysis as far as what these students are studying, not just in this article, but in all articles that attempt to account for career placement of college students in any way. Studying electrical engineering will provide a completely different likelihood of graduate employment than will studying humanities. In this particular article these statistics I assume, would move the needle.…
They point out in the article that these courses tend to be more like community college courses - in practical topics like logistics. You're looking at this from the Western point of view, where students are encourages to take absolutely any topic, just so long as they get a BA.
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Rumours tell what's what happened in Cambodia before Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge. Too many liberal arts & french classical literature graduates, no viable agriculture to feed the country without external help, help being cut.
I've never heard this before. I think that pre Khmer Rouge Cambodia had a tiny graduate population <1% and had no issue of agricultural production apart from the intrinsic vulnerability of subsistence farming to crop failure and famine. The disaster of year 0 was not the result of either external aid or poor education, rather it was a political decision supported by regional powers for geo-political ends.
And then it tells about previous ruler investing in education heavily without then caring about employment of graduates, all this on top of population surge.
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Humorous, but very real in some. Since the queen is at the zenith of social standing, his statement is quite correct
This is the current human mentality: no lower boundary for sanity. Any nonsense may be considered correct if it has support from stereotypes or prejudices.
If you'd need a social scale for some l practical reason, I suppose the only workable one is education level. it ids not fair to everyone but I think it is the last horrible.
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I can't believe the article didn't mention hukou (like an intra-country passport) discrimination at all. The problem is much worse than they make it out to be: not only do you suffer from poorer schools and more tuition than your urban counterparts, the score you need to get on the test to get into a good urban university is actually HIGHER than what the urban kids need. Having rural hukou is a b*tch.
They did mention that urban kids don't have to score as much to get into urban schools. They didn't explain the mechanism by which is this is enforced.
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You can't really compare salary without taking into account the cost of living there
It is amazing how many people do not understand this.
Here in rural China (on and off ~11 years), honestly the most educated and worldly person I spoke to in the last week or so was an exotic dancer from another province who had picked up some foreign language and was evidently far more intelligent and motivated than the majority of downtrodden graduates. She said she didn't finish high school. I thought to myself: "that's probably causation not just correlation".
> was an exotic dancer from another province Do you mean rural china or a second/third tier city? I'm not sure what an exotic dancer would be doing in a village.
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>>t is also possible that his IQ raised significantly as he got older due to extensive study as it is also possible that his IQ test was simply poorly administered for whatever reason. Which is why an IQ is useless. If it can rise then it is not really measuring intelligence. Rather it is measuring what you know so far. Which explains why kids from better income families have better IQs. And yet people treat IQ as a…
I'm not an IQ expert by any stretch but I doubt that it fluctuates that much (in the population in general). Based on the limited reading I have done your IQ will tend to rise as you get older, however in general people will stay in roughly the same position relative to others. Whilst you can probably influence your IQ by working your brain really hard every day or lower it by doing a lot of drugs I doubt it is reall…