Physicist at Large

I am currently reading Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning , by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel. It's a boo...

I haven't forgotten this blog.  I've been busy, but I haven't forgotten.  I will start blogging another book soon.  In the meant...

In Chapters 5-7 of Zhao's book, I feel like the worst parts of China's education system are what America's would be if every bad...

The first couple chapters set the stage by talking about the Western infatuation with Chinese education and the history of the Imperial exam...

My most stressful recent deadline has passed.  I have many more to go, but the worst is over.  In the near future I will start reading and b...

The strangest thing that jumped out at me in the second half of the book is that young men who passed the imperial exams felt more loyalty t...

I am about a third of the way through China's Examination Hell .  The first thing that jumps out at the modern reader is how familiar s...