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South Korea From A Country That Had Relatively Little Primary Education Became Close To Universal Literacy In The Course Of 25, 30 Years, In A Way Trying To Replicate What Japan Had Done Earlier. They Were Learning To Some Extent From The Japanese Experience Too. So I Think, In A Sense, The East Asians Were Following A Path, Which All Other Countries Including South Asia Could Follow But Chose Not Too.

The Anti-globalization Movement Is One Of The Biggest Globalized Events Of The Contemporary World, People Coming From Everywhere, —australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to Demonstrate In Seattle Or Quebec. What Could Be More Global Than That?

Japan Became An Imperialist Country In Many Ways, But That Was Much Later, After It Had Already Made Big Progress. I Don’t Think Japan’s Wealth Was Based On Exploiting China. Japan’s Wealth Was Based On Its Expansion In International Trade.

When The Government Is Trying To Penny-pinch And, At The Same Time, Trying To Keep A Defense Expenditure And So Forth, Which Are Regarded As Quote Unquote Essential, The Education Is Regarded Inessential.

One Of The Things That Any Kind Of Studies Bring Out Is That The Mere Act Of Schooling - Getting Together, The Organization Involved, Going To Classes On Time, And There're Things Being Taught, Sitting Down With Others With Different Backgrounds, Chatting With Them, And, Sometimes When There Are Big Barriers, Eating Together When There Are School Meals, Which Are Big Things Together With A Big Social Impact - They Themselves Have A Major Effect.