Princessdiane

Comparing our high schools, I’m not sure which one I would cohose to go to. I’m not sure which one I would cohose to send my children to. Each school has advantages and disadvantages. I'd think the best option is probably in the middle, in the most literal geographical sense. It may easily be that the best possible education is to be found in Western Europe. It's a combination of rigorous curriculum, personal freedom, free thought, creativity, encouragement, and opportunities, and by that I mean giving people more than one chance on one exam. I don't know all of the specifics of how, say, German, or Swiss, or Dutch schools work, but a few things are apparent. First of all, essentially all schools are at the same level, regardless of the wealth of the community where they are located (there may be rare exceptions, but I'd think they are always being actively addresses, and they are not extreme). In addition, at least here in the Netherlands, they produce, for the most part, very well-educated and happy students. And in the most fundamental sense, Western Europe is without doubt the most highly developed region in the world, and the societies achieved their quality of life purely through education, because in every Western European nation, the economy is fundamentally based on high-tech; there's no oil to pump, gold to mine, and forests to log.