China and India are considered the world’s most
populous countries because of their fast growing world economies. As far as
education goes both countries are a lot different. China is ranked on top
compared to 74 countries putting India at the bottom according to a new global
study of learning standards. PISA (Program for International Assessment) is an
international test that tests fifteen year old in participating economies on
critical thinking in math, science, and reading. According to the PISA assessment
India performed poorly. There are questions asked of why did India perform so
poorly on the PISA assessments? Michael Schuman for Time magazine states “for
one reason may be because India started its pro-growth reforms a decade after
China.” In other words they started ten years after China did. They could be
the case, but according to an economist Tyler Cowen states that “malnutrition
could impact the IQ of Indian students”. This article also talks about because
of state affairs they are the reason for young Indians to be shut out of the
job market because the state failed them. This leads to them having unequal job
opportunities compared to young Chinese.
Tyler Cowen also talks about how on educational tests the female
students are at a marked disadvantage that will drag down the average.
I believe that discrimination against female
students is wrong because with them marked as disadvantage on educational test
then it is part of the reason India is ranked at the bottom of the global
education scale when compared to other countries. Education to me is important
and India should have been thinking about the quality of the children and how
important education is for them. Women should not be discriminated on getting
an education. With less discrimination against female students there will be
equal education for both male and females.
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