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MOTIVATION: ?My ?C,? ?D,? and ?F? students this semester are almost exclusively American, whi?

By Glenn Reynolds

MOTIVATION: “My ‘C,? ‘D,? and ‘F? students this semester are almost exclusively American, while my students from India, China, and Latin America have – despite language barriers – generally written solid papers, excelled on exams, and become valuable class participants.” But I’ll bet the American students have better self-esteem. They come from an educational process that values self-esteem; the other students from one that values performance. Both have produced as designed. (Via Ann Althouse, where a commenter objects, “There are plenty of lazy Indian and Chinese students, but those are in India and China.”). But, as Michael Barone has noted, America has the world’s worst 18-year-olds and the world’s best 30-year-olds. Let’s hope we can keep that up.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 27, 2009 (boomark / email).