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India and China Students Work Harder
March 18, 2008
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.Harry S.
-Firestone
In recent years we have seen a lot of stories about the educational importance of the early years. Now a new documentary, "Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination," (www.2mminutes.com) focuses on the importance of the high school years and claims that U.S. students spend too little time and effort on academics in high school compared with harder working young people in China and India. The documentary claims that the difference in the way students use the roughly "two million minutes" in high school will seriously affect their economic futures and that of the United States. According to the film, students in China devote 583,200 minutes to their studies in high school compared with 422,400 for students in India, and 302,400 for students in the United States.

Two comments about the film:

Timothy Draper, Founder of Draper Fisher Juvetson venture-capital firm: "America is the one country in the world that doesn't seem to realize it is in competition for the great minds and the capital of the world."

Vivek Wadhwa, Executive-in-Residence, Duke University, and an immigrant from India: "You've got to realize that in India and China...higher education �" becoming an engineer, becoming a scientist �" is a passport out of poverty.... What the film didn't show you was the level of maturity and experience you have when you come out of school. India and China are a lot more rigorous, but America's students have extensive life experience and can innovate."




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toryk · March 18, 2008
United States


The only problem I have with this would be the idea that all children in the US are going through school. In other countries school is not always required and the less educated children don't go. That means we are comparing only the highest educated children in other countries to ALL of the children in the US.

Just something to think about.

jeanette lamothe · March 18, 2008
greenport, ny, United States


The outcomes of early childhood education will also make a tremendous difference in what happens during the four years of high school.

We have the challenge of ensuring that kindergarteners are not already "burnt out" on education because of developmentally inappropriate practice.

To be sure there are other factors that are involved in a student's success, but first, let us teachers of the very young consider that we are gatekeepers--ensuring that a child's natural love of learning is respected, encouraged and thereby preserved.



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