Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!not-for-mail From: "Danny Wilde" Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime.misc,soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.korean Subject: Re: If japanimation isnt that popular in japan...... Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:26:31 +0900 Organization: Public NNTP Service, Kyoto University, JAPAN Lines: 18 Sender: fuzakenbo@hotmail.com Message-ID: References: <1118386316.417924.71670@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1119859564.695311.284750@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1119907102.466935.158000@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1120001056.367364.275450@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1120011255.559875.5320@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.240.accsnet.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-15"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: caraway.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp 1120019200 23473 202.220.240.78 (29 Jun 2005 04:26:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:26:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:28170 "Vernon North" wrote in message news:MPG.1d2bb231b36701aa98a1d8@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net... > "American high school students have a poorer mastery of basic math > concepts than their counterparts in most other leading industrialized > nations, according to a major international survey released yesterday." (etc. snipped.) Doesn't American high school education tend to be more broad than in other countries? European countries tend to specialize much earlier. The same goes for universities, I believe. Anyway, the level of American science is number one in the world. So common sense tells us that the education system must be doing something right.