Originally Posted by metalgeek

What is the solution though?
I think it's a cultural thing, it's not that we're being told being smart is bad, it's more so were told that everyone's smart, and you know the saying, 50% of people are below average, but if you lok at school marks it definetly doesn't show that.
When you have 80% of a class at a B or above, theres something wrong...
but try marking kids hard and what happens? you hurt there self esteem, the parents yel at you, etc.
(and for how much it's vaunted to a certaine extent the Chinese system isn't much better, I had a teacher tell me that she won't give the studetns low marks, because then maybe the students would be mad at her.)