chapter 3 is better. he sketches out his notion of a failure mode for the Chinese economy and eventually nation
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chapter five seems to be a discussion of the vocational high school system, which is mostly free (unlike academic high schools) and modeled after germanys system so far they sound like normal high schools in that theyre not useful for getting jobspic.twitter.com/PGCWWvGQpC
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apparently the vocational high school thing was a 2002 initiative that actually made it into provincial policy goaling very excited to see how Campbell's Law played outpic.twitter.com/YntuTKxoVv
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honestly though he's ticking through problems with the high schools (no one is learning anything, students are smoking in class, whatever) and comparing this to public high schools in a typical American city and im mostly thinking "looks like china has finally made it"
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it is disappointing to me that the authors are allegedly economists and discussing the topic of education and have not mentioned Spence even once
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more anecdotes. apparently vocational majors are determined by policymakers rather than potential employers. this has led to things like students majoring in abacus use and repairing telephone booths and VCRs
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overall im coming away suspecting that chinas vocational schools are indeed completely worthless as educational institutions but nb it probably wouldnt have taken much for me to believe this
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I'd like to think that you only kept reading so you could finish this twitter thread.
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im likely to find some of the stuff interesting. and one can learn a lot from reading something he finds weak argumentation I think
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The core of it is a difference of traditions...China is not like the West...at all
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