Comments on: U.S. freedoms sweeten for one exchange student http://nevadasagebrush.com/blog/2008/10/07/us-freedoms-sweeten-for-one-exchange-student/ Serving the students of the University of Nevada, Reno since 1893. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:35:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Grigory Lukin http://nevadasagebrush.com/blog/2008/10/07/us-freedoms-sweeten-for-one-exchange-student/#comment-37917 Grigory Lukin Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:46:55 +0000 http://nevadasagebrush.com/?p=4625#comment-37917 Doesn't Japan have one of the best education systems in the world? Their schools don't encourage too much thinking outside the box, but Japan is always at the top of education ratings. Our schools, on the other hand, are among the worst in the developed world, with high dropout rates and graduates who are functionally illiterate. I know this may come as a shock to a lot of people, but the main purpose of a school is to ensure its students will learn something new. Pink-haired pierced kids covered in makeup and running around on sugar high while looking through the latest issues of teen magazines (and I use the term "magazine" loosely) probably won't concentrate on school all that much - and neither will kids sitting next to them. Doesn’t Japan have one of the best education systems in the world? Their schools don’t encourage too much thinking outside the box, but Japan is always at the top of education ratings. Our schools, on the other hand, are among the worst in the developed world, with high dropout rates and graduates who are functionally illiterate.

I know this may come as a shock to a lot of people, but the main purpose of a school is to ensure its students will learn something new. Pink-haired pierced kids covered in makeup and running around on sugar high while looking through the latest issues of teen magazines (and I use the term “magazine” loosely) probably won’t concentrate on school all that much - and neither will kids sitting next to them.

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