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Re:When Chinese children forget how to write by MichaelGG on Thursday August 28, 2014 @04:23AM (#8236368)
How does that show it? In a developed country, even if literacy is more difficult, we'd expect the education system to have compensated or calibrated for it to achieve an overall good rate. If schoolkids must spend an extra 10% overall time due to increased literacy requirements, that's really but gonna show up on the overall literacy rates, right?
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Re:When Chinese children forget how to write by seszett on Thursday August 28, 2014 @04:30AM (#8236386)
If that doesn't show up on literacy rates, or GDP, or crime rate or... can you really consider it a hindrance?
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Re:When Chinese children forget how to write by MichaelGG on Thursday August 28, 2014 @02:15PM (#8238805)
Sure! For instance, more kids might commit suicide due to increased stress. In response, more people may work harder, and culture might shift to view this as virtuous thing, so those general numbers might still fair alright.
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Re:When Chinese children forget how to write by seanflyon on Thursday August 28, 2014 @06:28PM (#8240083)
If one factor isn't so terrible that is overcomes all advantages of a wealthy educated society, can you really consider it a hindrance?
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