From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   Don Y  wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
      
   I was a technician at a university, in a lab where students had to   
   operate and modify a rig meant to represent an industrial process.  It   
   needed an extra hole drilled in the aluminium backplate and the students   
   couldn't find the power drill (we only had one).   
      
   I found an old hand drill in a drawer and they looked incredulous when I   
   told them it could be used to drill a hole.  As I went to demonstrate   
   it, the oriental students gathered round to watch and ask questions -   
   the European students gave me a dirty look and walked out.   
      
      
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