Happiness Quote by Amanda Ripley

“Even South Koreans themselves struggle mightily to fit into their own success-obsessed, status-conscious, education-crazed culture.”

— Blaine Harden

Koreans are ambitious, man. It means a lot to my parents that I do the work that I do and it has the visibility.

— Sandra Oh

“The Korean private market had unbundled education down to the one in-school variable that mattered most: the teacher. It was about as close to…

— Amanda Ripley

“Finally, it was clear that the real innovation in Korea was not happening in the government or the public schools. It was happening in…

— Amanda Ripley

“Korean children are among the worst in the world at social interaction (thirty-fifth out of thirty-six countries surveyed). In school, children are constantly tested…

— Daniel Tudor

“The American public has been persistently told that the Korean people are a degenerate and contemptible nation, incapable of better things, intellectually inferior, and…

— Homer B. Hulbert

“Interestingly, the only class that Eric actually enjoyed in Korea was math. He noticed it on his first day of school. Something was very…

— Amanda Ripley

“An hour spent by a Korean on the study of Chinese or Japanese will yield greater progress than an hour spent on English, other…

— Daniel Tudor

“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan are learning…

— Thomas Sowell

“Every day the same things came up; the work was never done, and the tedium of it began to weigh on me. Part of…

— Cullen Thomas

“There is another, bleaker reason why Korea has little reason to fear that other countries will try to emulate the K-pop export model: the…

— Euny Hong

“The question then was not what other countries were doing, but why. Why did these countries have this consensus around rigor? In the education…

— Amanda Ripley