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Manfred comments on Discussion: Socially Awkward Penguin as a tool for unraveling social enigmas - Less Wrong Discussion

23 Post author: Raw_Power 17 June 2011 12:52AM

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Comment author: Manfred 18 June 2011 02:34:18AM 1 point [-]

Well, in short, science education in Brazil was consistently terrible because it taught students to value memorization but not understanding. In long, you can read his account here.

Comment author: Raw_Power 18 June 2011 07:06:29AM 0 points [-]

So... like Japan?