OP-ED: What Canada can learn from South Korea's education culture

Dr. Dotan Rousso writes, "In the most recent PISA assessments, South Korean students scored 527 in mathematics, compared with Canada’s 497 and the OECD average of 472.

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By: Dr. Dotan Rousso

Dr. Dotan Rousso is a philosophy faculty member at SAIT in Calgary, where he teaches critical thinking and applied ethics.

As an educator visiting South Korea, the contrast between its education culture and ours is difficult to miss. Canada’s education system is not failing, but it is drifting. It still performs respe…