There are only two majors that translate into reasonably well-paying jobs outside of universities: computer science and petroleum engineering - Thiel

#School #Education

"This is not an Afghanistan that came out of a very bitter, ugly civil war of the Mujahedin."

"It's an Afghanistan of educated people. It's an Afghanistan of men and women seen in important positions. This is an Afghanistan where people can go on radio, television and criticize their governments, the leaders."

Are they doing that now? "They are doing that now. How long they will continue ... But no one could shut them up. That one thing I know."

"If anyone is interested in governing Afghanistan, they have to accept the new Afghanistan. Never in the history of Afghanistan was it that way."

#Afghanistan #Education

#Afghanistan #Education

(This happened several months ago. Supposed to be mandatory in 2022/2023 school year)

"The insurrection was alarming to many people and served as a wakeup call that we need to prepare future generations about civics and government." - Sen Shirley Turner (D)

"So maybe 30 years of not having civics, this is what you get." - Arlene Gardner, President of NJ Center for Civic Education, who is developing the curriculum

"One of the areas that we've really started working on is those skills for having a CIVIL discourse when you disagree with people."

#Education #Politics

'All private tutoring firms now must register as NGOs, they're banned from raising funds from the stock markets and foreign investment ... Those who have violated the regulations shall be cleaned up and rectified,' says the document circulating on state TV.

EdTech firms have been funded by Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent and Didi.

Tutoring classes are banned on weekends, public holidays, school vacations, and after 9pm.

Publicly traded companies in the sector were down between 25 and 60%.

Clashing policies: China wants international champions, but also wants to crack down on those who'd like to do that. Chinese people don't know what to think about these conflicting policies and it's difficult to get them to talk about it in public or even in private, reportedly.

The reason has something to do with China wanting more babies, and the barrier to this caused by costs to parents for educating children.

Reportedly, the Chinese public is happy with this, as they are relieved from an expectation that comes with a large cost.

#China #Education

... according to CNBC's annual state competitiveness rankings. It's done very well in the past 15 years in this survey.

Reasons include a strong workforce (40% have at least a bachelors, according to the US Census Bureau, although the state has a relative shortage of workers and relatively few outsiders move there for work - it also has slightly below-average unemployment) and solid education system, reportedly.

Virginia scored high points in Cost of Doing Business, Infrastructure, Life Health and Inclusion (formerly Quality of Life), and Workforce. Although its score for Education looks low in its rankings, it represents the second highest state after Mass. and CNBC considers it key to winning the survey.

'Education is the best tool we have to make our Commonwealth a better, more equitable place for everyone,' according to Gov. Northam.

Virginia like other US states is currently focusing heavily on change in the form of forcing diversity, sustainability and connectivity. It also has a high cost of living and high wages.

The other top 5 were N.C., Utah, Texas and Tennessee.

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