Comments on: BREAKING: Students Outside America Aren’t One-Dimensional

By: Matthew K. Tabor

Matthew K. Tabor — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:40:57 +0000

Bryan,

I’ll steal an act from the 2MM blog here.

Here’s a list of names of the winners of the Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement:

“Congratulations to this year’s winners:

Tianhui Cai, Ashutosh Singhal, Varun Krishnan, Jae Chung, Anatola He, Anne Ye, Julie Jin, Sharon Wu, Stephanie Choi, Shengkai Wu, Mengfei Yang, Rui Hu, Rui Yang, Sriram Velamuri, Bo Hyung Yoon, Maria Birukova, Linxi Ji, Xingping Shen, Michelle Han, Shuo Zhang, Katelyn Gao, Seung-Tack Baek, Nan Hu, Kevin Tong, Malavika Balachandran, Tong Chen, Christina Zou, Anji Tang, Hanlu Chen, Kunal Mehta, Deepa Chari, Igor Luzhansky, Bowen Zhou, Shankari Rajagopal, Heejung Kim, Yiwen Zhan, Helen Wu, Andrea Yonge, Shivani Sud, Vivek Bhattacharya, Elizabeth Wei, Amy Tai, Peter Zhang, Cathy Wu, Ashok Bhaskar, Ji Hyun Kim, Jovian Yu, Bella Wang, Junda Chen, Qing Wang, Hyeseung Chung, , Lingyi Zhang, Emily Xue, Cassandra Xia, Jack Wang, Seungsoo Kim, Maria Xu, Jerry Wang, Srihari Sritharan

All Canadian and Scandanavian, no doubt.

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:36:09 +0000

Comparing American students with those from China and India covers up the need to compare them with the much better students from Scandanavia, Canada, and most other industrialized nations.

By: Colin

Colin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:53:17 +0000

“If anything, I’d say that China, India and some others are a generation or two behind the US in a good way – that they’re more like the 1950’s/60’s hard-working American with a defined seriousness of purpose.”

Agree for the most part. In my profession I work with more internationals than not, mostly Indians and Malaysian-born Chinese, though various others as well (Peruvian, Mexican, Korean, Vietnamese, etc etc). I’m immensely impressed with how balanced their lives are, even after hearing about some crazy study habits (such as sleeping every other night in grad school). Despite the amount of hours we work, most still have families and have passions outside of work. Even my boss, an extremely dedicated employee, stresses regularly the importance of balance, and that work is only priority #3 (other two should be obvious).

Meanwhile I struggle to watch as much playoff basketball as humanly possible.