tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30544984.post543757148172854553..comments2024-03-08T03:24:19.823-05:00Comments on Where The Hell Am I?: Another Academic FraudReginahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09024832959937205245noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30544984.post-73769175770053087372007-08-22T17:52:00.000-04:002007-08-22T17:52:00.000-04:00Well, like the current backlash against Chinese pr...Well, like the current backlash against Chinese products and how we've all selectively forgotten that the US had development growing pains too: <A HREF="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0803/p09s01-coop.html" REL="nofollow">America's history of tainted consumer goods</A>, I think this is a educational growing pain which is unique to Korea in some ways due to it's culture and values. It came up in America in it's own way too, formed by the culture and values. As you say, Japan has its own too.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure in the history of the US there were education scandals and that's why we have accrediation organizations and formal entry tests these days.<BR/><BR/>We just had different cultural challenges and social hurdles. We still have an education system that needs a lot of work. Large number of children fall through the cracks, so while Korea might have its problems so do we.<BR/><BR/>I just try to keep the focus of my blog on Korea (and sometimes that's very difficult actually and I've carved out exceptions for things I really like). A blog on the US education system is going to discuss our problems too.Reginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09024832959937205245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30544984.post-41932348325238474482007-08-22T09:04:00.000-04:002007-08-22T09:04:00.000-04:00Part of me (the good, honorable part of me) object...Part of me (the good, honorable part of me) objects to lying in the first place. Another part of me (the shameful, sneaky side) thinks that if you've absolutely got to tell a lie, you'd better make it a damned good one. So why tell a bad lie, easy-to-expose lie when you don't even need to?<BR/><BR/>I don't know if this is so much of a problem in Japan. What IS a problem, though, is people who manage to get into good universities and then sail through them having done very little work, finally graduating with little more knowledge than they had when they got in. In the past, these people got excellent jobs just because of their impressive alma mater. After the bubble burst, companies got a lot savvier about hiring people with the requisite qualifications but little practical expertise.Mary Witzlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06458299046574564155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30544984.post-19359511339116494052007-08-22T01:26:00.000-04:002007-08-22T01:26:00.000-04:00Yeah, this one is just boring and I just think she...Yeah, this one is just boring and I just think she's stupid for lying in the first place.<BR/><BR/>She got the job offer due to her work. She could have skated in on that and gotten a degree while teaching to go further, if that was her desire.Reginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09024832959937205245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30544984.post-25562917113470279792007-08-22T00:58:00.000-04:002007-08-22T00:58:00.000-04:00Snore.....I agree, it's become an old topic over t...Snore.....<BR/><BR/>I agree, it's become an old topic over there in Korea. Folks at Stanford are feeling very stung by the Zelig named Azia, who climbed in and out of a borrowed dorm window and attended classes there.<BR/><BR/>Ah well. I'm sure she'll be teaching over in Korea someday. She'll tell everyone she "matriculated at Stanford."<BR/><BR/>Ha!Kananihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317494343177263398noreply@blogger.com