Value Collector
Have courage, and be kind.
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or the type of people we came from, hence why I think its important to check or performance against ourselves rather than against others.
There may very well be a correlation in poor school performance with the type of people we are becoming.
I think a fair test would be to compare Australia with Australia over time, rather than against other nations, because thats what matters.
Imagine if they took the parentally bullied homeworked asian students out of that equation...we'd be ranking outside the OECD parentheses.
The real reason the lessons aren't getting through is the extreme use of behavoural clamps on the teachers by policy and process...they are just drones who get pinged constantly for not following strangling pedagogy that is skewed to covering their principal's arse with rules on social justice, gender fluidity, KPI's, and crepe paper children.
The rising fascist nature of school teaching correlates with the reduction in males at the blackboard. Women are creatures of rules and eventually they strangle organisations because of excess access to policy.
No it's not, as we live in a global economy. We are actually competing against other countries for jobs and industries so a global comparison is essential.
Yes but if you are making claims such as you were alluding to claims that modern teachers are muppets or as graph was that modern Australians are some how becoming inferior, then a comparison against our past is best.
Comparisons against other nations is more for goal setting.
When it comes to investment in the global market place, there is a whole host of things that move the needle more so than simply school test results, eg stable political systems, tax rates, high rate of local investors willing to support projects etc.
a few percentage points on school tests isn't the be all and end all.
I know they started from a low base, infrastructure wise... But their progress sure make ours look puny and snail paced.
Problem is can they afford it in the long run ? They are deeply in debt but it probably doesn't matter to them because they have no intention of paying it back.
They are deeply in debt
There's pretty much a world war every century. This 21st one looks to be gathering pretty quickly.
To who? foreign debt is very small, they are largely (as a country) self funded, and the debts are payable in their own currency, Not to mention they hold ship loads of USA Bonds.
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But as long as over all most of the infrastructure investments produce economic returns in excess of their cost, countries the spend big on infrastructure do well, even if they are funded by debt.
eg. If you can borrow long term long term at 5%, and build infrastructure that generates returns of say 10%, then the more you borrow the better you will do, borrowing $1 Trillion will make you ship loads of money.
Don't you have a daughter who's a teacher?
She might not be impressed hearing that form her old man.
Not at all. My pedigree goes back to colonist days and teaching. Teachers these days are employed to be drones .... or else. Mine manages to garner exceptionally high class scores until the knives come out and she skips off to another school .... being in high demand there is always offers, three last week from principals trying to poach for next year.
Many teachers fear their permanency and super will be for zip if they don't double down and do as they are told by dept policy ....... kids are secondary consideration.
Yes but if you are making claims such as you were alluding to claims that modern teachers are muppets or as graph was that modern Australians are some how becoming inferior, then a comparison against our past is best.
We are past that, Trade beats war every time, and I am sure the Chinese understand that, Hence all their investments are to enable the speed of trade.
I did say as long as “most” produce an economic return, but also security assets deliver an economic return, in the same way police officers produce an economic return, whether it’s detering pirates from attacking cargo ships, or keeping terrorists away from a gas pipeline, investments in security can have good payoffs when it comes to loss prevention.I wonder what the economic return on aircraft carriers and missile bases is.
Gunboat diplomacy is very much alive and kicking. Just that the focus is not direct confrontation between major/nuclear-powered states, but against their proxies, or would be proxies.
It also helps with trade talks, diplomacy and getting the other guy to switch sides if you got a few boats parked just over the horizon and a couple of brigades well fed but with nothing to do just next door.
There are "rumours" that Saddam and Qaddafi got taken out because, among other things, they were seriously considering getting off of the petro dollar and into Yuan. But that's just silly.
But imagine you're a dictator of a resource rich country and the Chinese comes to you with a higher bid. You of course wanted the money, but where's the protection, right?
I think that's why China has more success with their dictators in southern Africa - less French, NATO and US presence there.
China is being pretty damn clever, so far. They're buildings roads and trading ports. Rail and bridges... Then of course they'd have to send a few frigates along to protect the cargoes. And of course it's more convenient if those frigates and marines station strategically along key ports. etc. etc.
They're already offering the Thai generals free money to allow them to fund and build the long planned (when France and Britain rule the waves) Thai Canal.
Not only is that an alternate route that cut shipping and naval ships by a few days/weeks... it's telling the Singaporean that if they want to continue being that hub, might like to get back to their "Chinese" roots or else be isolated and lose those trillions of goods passing through the Thai each year.
I don't see what is so clever. They are employing hachneyed empire building methods, which they, themselves, fell victim to and suffered for. You'd think they would avoid inflicting conflict on others given the miserable nation they are.
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