Posted on 09/28/2012 2:21:32 PM PDT by cunning_fish
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development recently released its Education at a Glance 2012 report. The report examines OECD and G20 countries where the data was available. According to the report, which includes vocational training as part of higher education/post-secondary education, here are the five most educated countries in the world:
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Very surprised to see Russia as #1. Who would have guessed? I see none of the “socialist paradises” of Europe are on the list. The loony left gets it wrong again.
Suprised South Korea was absent.
Russia has always been over educated. The USSR produced great heaping gobs of over educated liberal arts types.
Education is not the same thing as smart.
Suprised South Korea was absent.
That means an engineer with several PhDs counts the same as a stoner taking two community college classes on Playstation games.
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Well, they did produce highly trained musicians and dancers, but the emphasis in education was always on science and technology.
Actually, there weren't so many "liberal arts types" there as they were or are here.
First of all, you were trained to fill a slot in the machine. The demand for historians and literary critics and anthropologists was small, so they didn't educate people for those positions.
Secondly, you didn't have much freedom to go from what you were trained at into something else, so you had to make the right choice up front. There was no mom or dad to fall back on either, so most people went into technological careers.
Also, the "liberal arts" were heavily ideological. You couldn't have those jobs unless you wanted to lie and repeat the same tired old slogans, so smart people avoided those jobs.
Measurement of true smarts is elusive and non-quantifiable. But a good one would be who would survive in a cataclysmic collapse of society and infrastructure. (Hint: country folk.)
Yeah well, I know several cutting-edge Russian techs emigrated to the west.
Liberal dunderheads, almost to the man (or woman).
This also includes technical training - mechanics, etc.
The USA does not promote that as much as other countries.
Not by a long shot.
In fact South Korea has the highest percentage of highly educated yound people aged 25-34. In a decade it will be undisputed most educated nation.
As for Russia, GSC, I believe actual number of degrees is even higher than listed there.
Their education system allows to get into college type educational institutions after secondary school instead of high school. It is ranging from tutoring a car mechanics, a production line operating and management or nursing to military tactics&science, history, art and paralegal studies.
All of the above are taught college-style there with tonns of theory.
Russians place a high value on education at every level.
High School in Russia was harder than college here, according to my daughter, who was there until age 16.
Unfortunately, being a doctor there will get you a pittance in salary. Yet people do it.
Boy, are you right there! NYC is overrun with crooked Russian millionaires who go to dinner parties and brag about their “intelligence.” They sit there in horribly tailored suits, with their bitch wives, bragging and bragging until some smart, Jewish New Yorker brings them to heel with one snap of his unfurled tongue.
I can’t stand ‘em!
The findings are obviously racist since no predominantly Negro and/or African countries head the list. /s
South Korea now has the largest percentage of Christians in East Asia, according to estimates of church statistics gathered by the World Christian Database. By contrast, the percentage of Christians in China and Taiwan is below 10%; in Japan and North Korea it is below 5%.
Not only are their numbers growing, but the level of religious intensity of South Korean Christians is much higher than that of other religious groups in the country. This is reflected in a recent survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, in which more than a third (35%) of South Korean Christians say that religion is very important in their lives. The comparable numbers among Buddhists and the unaffiliated are 3% and 1%, respectively.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/657/south-koreas-coming-election-highlights-christian-community
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The findings are obviously racist since no predominantly Negro and/or African countries head the list. /s
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LOL. So true /s :)
Having spent the past 25 years in academia
Educated & Intelligent are two different thing
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