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wooden nickels
Joined: 23 May 2010
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 Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:48 pm Post subject: just got paid today, a pocket full of change |
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"In South Korea they pay their teachers the way they pay their doctors."
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candy bar
Joined: 03 Dec 2012
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| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:39 am Post subject: Re: just got paid today, a pocket full of change |
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| wooden nickels wrote: |
"In South Korea they pay their teachers the way they pay their doctors."
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Obama talk. |
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Fallacy
Joined: 29 Jun 2015
Location: ex-ROK
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| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 4:03 am Post subject: Re: just got paid today, a pocket full of change |
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| candy bar wrote: |
| wooden nickels wrote: |
| "In South Korea they pay their teachers the way they pay their doctors." |
Obama talk. |
How so? Please elaborate. I may be in agreement with your brief statement, but I would like to be sure with what exactly. |
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radcon
Joined: 23 May 2011
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| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 4:31 am Post subject: |
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| A few years ago Obama gave a speech where he was all up on Korea's nut sack educationally. He said the US should emulate Korea's education system basing this mainly on the test scores Korean students achieve. He failed to mention the amount of time Korean kids spend studying. Also if told that Korean families often spend half their income on educating their kids it would be a non starter for American families. |
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maximmm
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: just got paid today, a pocket full of change |
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| wooden nickels wrote: |
"In South Korea they pay their teachers the way they pay their doctors."
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It's true. They transfer their pay to their bank accounts rather than pay in cash. |
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Fallacy
Joined: 29 Jun 2015
Location: ex-ROK
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| Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:01 am Post subject: |
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| radcon wrote: |
| A few years ago Obama gave a speech where he was all up on Korea's nut sack educationally. He said the US should emulate Korea's education system basing this mainly on the test scores Korean students achieve. He failed to mention the amount of time Korean kids spend studying. Also if told that Korean families often spend half their income on educating their kids it would be a non starter for American families. |
Ah, right. This. Thanks for the summary reminder radcon. To be fair, Obama is not the first nor last human to be misguided by ignorance of the ROK in general, and the official educational policies and practices in particular. However, more disturbing would be the possibility that as the politically professional operator-in-chief, Obama was just as likely making statements with fully complicit awareness of reality, thereby simultaneously flattering both the local ROK hosts as a foreign head of state and the distant US corporate interests actively trying to reform education as head of the executive branch of federal government. As such, I must agree with wooden nickels and candy bar. |
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