What however makes all these places common is that they take education way too seriously. Poland's 18-26 years old attend, have attended or plan to attend university in 85%. Iran is notable as a country with one of the highest amount of engineers per capita. Average South Korean family spends 30% of its budget on the education of its usually single child.
This is obviously all time wasting. Average IQ of a polish person is 98, average IQ of a high school science teacher is at about 110, so almost a standard deviation(15 ponts) above that. The only thing you're achieving by moving 85% of the youth through university is padding pointless statistics and I guess making them angry that they've got masters and work as peons with no perspectives. Iran has ironically quite significant industry, but the amount of engineers it has far exceeds its needs. For all the south korean efforts and high PISA score, the schooling fails to result in innovation. There was not a single Korean noble prize in history, for a country that on paper should be scientific superpower something is off here.
This shows that there's great amount of time and money wasted in all these places. Since the education takes so long, it artificially extends childhood. People are lead to believe that they have all these years of preparation to life in front of them and instead of taking the same job they would've taken without all these years, they just waste their youth in youth predating institutions.
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