tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24907756.post8598036411592506304..comments2022-11-22T03:33:16.299-05:00Comments on Catalytic Conversations: Shift Happens, Even to USMark David Millironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07342948679349614868noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24907756.post-37441773794400235992007-09-04T17:53:00.000-05:002007-09-04T17:53:00.000-05:00Good comment! I agree that we have to be very care...Good comment! I agree that we have to be very careful about emulating China. While I love their family and growing state focus on education, I don’t advocate adopting their models of education at all. In fact, I’m deeply concerned that we’ll further erode our focus on the whole student, creativity, beauty, art, and music in an effort to keep up with their sheer size. However, in a globally connected world, we need to take them seriously as an economic partner/competitor, and really think through their impact on how we learn and live.Mark David Millironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342948679349614868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24907756.post-56107324798562987252007-09-04T17:34:00.000-05:002007-09-04T17:34:00.000-05:00I would not get sooo excited about China. There i...I would not get sooo excited about China. There is a lot of Pollyanna drivel about China you hear in education these days. How great their science and math education is! (the Nazis had great engineers too!) People seem to like to compare US education to education in a country that does not value freedom or individuals. Yes great that they have an alleged "market" economy (except the state owns everything of consequence- banks, oil companies etc....)- but sorry you are not free to talk openly about your religion, and you may happen to live in company apartments and not be free to leave on your own time. Golly lets emulate them. It is fine to be skilled technically but there is more to education than that. I would rather help people become productive and skilled while valuing freedom, human rights, justice and so on. I think in the West we would rather not end up with a lot of uncreative techno-bots that spit out the state approved answers but are "honors" students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com