From: blockedofcourse@foo.invalid   
      
   On 11/29/2025 6:11 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   > Compare to Chinese education. The untalented are brutally weeded out,   
   > before they enter the university. OTOH a talent in rural areas seldomly   
   > gets unnoticed.   
      
   I think this goes to the cultural aspect.   
      
   I recall a power outage during my first year of school.  I took   
   the opportunity to wander across camps with an oversized balloon   
   full of N2O thinking it the perfect excuse for a party -- to share   
   with friends who lived on the other side of the main campus.   
      
   Halfway there, I passed through one of the main lobbies and   
   found the adjoining stairwells lined with oriental students   
   sitting under emergency lights working on homework!  Really?   
   How long do you think the outage will be that you need to   
   hoard every possible "study opportunity"?   
      
   Do their governments/sponsors hold them to some particular   
   standard for the "privilege" of studying abroad?  Or, is this   
   just a normal behavior, regardless of circumstance?   
      
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