Texte intéressant dans le Taipei Time en rapport avec la réforme scolaire en cours à Taiwan. On en apprend peu sur la nature de cette réforme, mais on découvre que là-bas aussi, on la dit parfois aussi improvisée. C’est toutefois l’angle d’analyse proposé par l’auteur de l’article pour défendre le modèle éducatif traditionnel de Taiwan qui a attiré mon attention:
Reformists believe that our traditional education method is a « cramming-style » method, which makes students adopt rigid learning methods without learning creativity. […]
[But] the creativity of an economy, in fact, lies in an environment that allows people — especially young people — to live according to their ideals and bravely realize what they really believe. […]
Hence, the following scenario is often seen here: a young employee chooses to leave his company due to a difference of opinion. When he leaves, he creates a new company, or even founds a more successful enterprise compared to the previous one. […] Thus young people are able to say « No » to their supervisors because it’s easy to start a new business. This is exactly the driving force behind the nation’s prosperity and creativity.
This theory can also explain why the overall creativity of Europe is relatively low — in spite of its « inspirational-style » education. It’s difficult for young people in Europe to leave their companies and start their own businesses. They can only be obsequious, or even curry favor with their supervisors. […]
We can say that one of the biggest mistakes of education reform is the lack of all-round and in-depth comprehension of our own characteristics. We are especially not confident of many of our own systems. As a result, we blindly strive to learn from advanced countries.
In fact, this problem occurs not only in our education reforms but also in many other areas — for example, the Labor Standards Law (???), the skill-certification and social welfare systems that Taiwan copied from the West. »
Je ne sais pas si c’est tout à fait complet comme analyse (va pour les caractères entrepreneurs, mais pour les autres?), mais le fond me semble intéressant. D’autant que le manque de confiance dans ses moyens qui amène à copier les autres en présumant que « c’est forcément mieux à New York ou à Paris » est un réflexe qui se manifeste aussi régulièrement chez les Québécois.