Singapore’s obsession holds lessons for us all (Andres Oppenheimer MiamiHerald.com): “”
The article suggestions that the academic success of Singaporeans is due to a culture that constantly and consistently promotes the value of education in society.
Such a culture is unlikely to take hold in the United States any time in the next cople of decades at least. The nation is much larger and more diverse than Singapore, and we have no deep-rooted culture of education boosterism. We should not look to the federal government, or even state governments, to promote the value of academic success in this country.
Any initiative to encourage learning and value education must start locally in the U.S. I suggest that public school districts, or individual schools, would be the right place to start.
