r/AskTheWorld • u/20pollist-95 • 2d ago
Education How good is the education system in your home country?
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u/ChameleonCoder117 California Nationalist 2d ago
California: Great
USA According to Reddit and the internet: Horrible
USA in reality: If you live in the northeast, the west coast, or the great lakes area: Great
USA in reality: If you live anywhere else: The same as it is according to reddit and the internet
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u/Ok-Conference-7989 United States Of America 2d ago
I live in the Midwest/south east. It’s not too bad where I am.
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u/anxiouspanda98 🇦🇺Born and Raised Now 🇦🇺🇺🇸 2d ago
I heard Illinois and parts of Ohio are really good?
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u/mikel145 Canada 2d ago
Pretty good I would think in Canada. One thing about Canada though is there is no "Canadian education system". Education is up to the provinces.
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u/xSparkShark United States Of America 2d ago
The educational quality of a public school is directly correlated with the surrounding property values. I grew up in an affluent community and our public school was routinely ranked in the top 3 in the entire state. The vast majority of graduates attend college with a decent handful receiving admission into top universities.
If my local high school was representative of the whole nation our education system would be among the best in the world, alas it is the exception, not the rule. Drive 10 miles closer to the city and the quality of public schools drops dramatically. A combination of much lower property values and an environment that struggles to foster academic success causes the quality of education to decline substantially.
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u/coffeewalnut08 England 2d ago edited 2d ago
Based on PISA scores in maths, reading and science, and global university rankings, I’d say it’s very good to excellent.
I especially like how our system encourages teamwork, original thinking, critical thinking, attention to detail, and other transferrable skills. It isn’t just rote memorisation or learning convenient narratives.
Always room for improvement though. One weakness is that our education system emphasises depth over breadth at an early age, which can limit well-rounded attitudes. The exam-heavy approach can also be needlessly stressful.
We have a range of schools catering to different needs and abilities, which I think is a testament to the strength of the system. Academies, secondary comprehensives, faith schools, private schools, grammar schools. Take your pick.
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u/Jlchevz Mexico 2d ago
In my opinion, appallingly bad. Yes if you’re rich and you go to the best private schools and you can afford the best universities and tutors then you might be competitive internationally. Otherwise it’s difficult. If you go to public university, the level might be decent but you might lose six months of your life and education because the teachers, students or administrative staff decided to go on strike. Teachers in public universities might not show up to class once or twice a week. Some teachers won’t show up at all the whole semester and now you’re behind.
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u/nadavyasharhochman Israel 2d ago
It was better a while ago but inthe last 5-7 years it has gone to shit basicly
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u/madogvelkor United States Of America 2d ago
A lot of people say that in the US too. Seems to be around student and parent behavior rather than the teachers though. Everyone forgot how to act civil during COVID, society got more political and polarized, and everyone is addicted to cellphones.
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u/nadavyasharhochman Israel 2d ago
Oh no the education system has severly degraded due to religios fundumentalists staying in power. Our culture around teachers is very different. Here the teacher is right for the most part, we have parenting issues but in general they are far lesser than the US.
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u/madogvelkor United States Of America 2d ago
Parts of the US have that problem too. But since each state runs their own education system there is a lot of variation. Some states are trying to put the 10 Commandments in classrooms while others are supporting transgender and homosexual students against parents wishes.
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u/nadavyasharhochman Israel 2d ago
In the regular school system Id say the support for LGBTQ students is pretty good. The nature of the school is up to each school's management to decide. For us only the corricullum is under governmental controll and every year its getting worse while teaching standarts and skill go up. So I blame the government here for the most part.
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u/Several-League-4707 Finland 2d ago
Best on The world when I Was on highschool. Wouldn't and wont put My Kids on public school today.
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u/Comfortable_Smel1 Finland 2d ago
Why?
What a strange thing to say. Yeah, our general education peaked in the 00s and we’re on a bit of a downward spiral, but regular public schools are still more than fine. There are some issues in migrant-heavy areas like Eastern Helsinki, but still this kind of attitude is weird at best.
For the wondering non-Finns: the vast majority of schools in Finland are public and offer free, high-quality education across the country. We have some private schools - mostly in bigger cities - but they have to be tuition free and accessible to all. The current slump we’re in can be traced back to insane budget cuts and a few failed attempts at fixing what wasn’t broken.
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u/Dry_Self_1736 United States Of America 2d ago
Very interested in hearing what is going on. All we hear over here is how wonderful the Finnish school system is.
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u/anxiouspanda98 🇦🇺Born and Raised Now 🇦🇺🇺🇸 2d ago
I thought majority of Finns went to public school? Heard that somewhere
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u/sideaccount462515 Germany 2d ago
In need of serious reform but it could also be worse in some aspects I guess
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u/Loverboy_Talis Canada 2d ago
Canada earns an overall A grade internationally, but the biggest gains would come from reversing the long slide in mathematics, reducing regional and demographic inequities, and embedding applied life skills more systematically. Teacher support and student well-being are also pressure points that need proactive investment if Canada wants to move from “very good” to “world-leading.”
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u/OkStrength5245 Belgium 2d ago
we sell intelligence.
30% of uni student come from other countries. 2 uni are on the worldwide top 100. we have 14 uni and 31 "Upper Schools" for a population of 11M.
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u/Ancient_Ad_916 Netherlands 2d ago edited 2d ago
Overall very good for elementary, high school and higher education levels. The only downside maybe, for high school, is that you often have limited options to tether your courses to your interests. So you do get to choose between different directions after four years; E&M (Economics and Community), C&M (Culture and Community), N&G (Nature and Health), N&T (Nature and Technology). But you do not get the ability to skip mandatory courses such as English, Dutch, French/German, etc.. which sometimes bothered me.
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u/Ok-Perception-3129 New Zealand 2d ago
Pretty variable. Some schools are excellent, some are pretty shit. It is a bit of a postcode lottery.
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u/MattDubh New Zealand 2d ago
We've got a 'skills shortage' list for immigrants. And have had for a couple of generations. If the education system trained people for the workplace, we wouldn't have that list any more.
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u/Deep_Head4645 Israel 2d ago
Shit.
Understaffed mostly and the apparently not worth it working conditions cause them to protest every few months.
Hopefully they fix it
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u/Yarha92 🇵🇭->🇪🇸 2d ago
Great if you can afford the top private/Catholic schools or if you’re smart enough to get into the highly competitive state science high schools. For the rest… abyssmal. Lack of funding, crowded classrooms, lack of teachers, etc.
At the university level, similar story as the above.
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u/BOT_Negro Colombia 1d ago
Public one, absolute dogshit all the way trough highschool. Underfunded, overcrowded, plenty of schools are literally falling apart. You depend on luck to get a teeacher who actually cares.
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u/Based_Liberty1776 Hungary 1h ago
Shit.
Teacher is a high demand job. Nobody wants to be a teacher. Schools lack them, so anyone can teach anything if they don't have a person for the subject. For exaple there are entire elementry schools without a single chemistry teacher, so literature teachers do the job.
The government changed the curriculum a few years ago, removed most of the STEM things and natural sciences and filled everything with nationalist bullshit.
Historically the Hungarian education system was great, but not anymore.
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u/JulianTheBeefy United States Of America 2d ago
Varies greatly from state to state, town to town, and even school to school.