If that were the case, countries would compete with each other and we'd all copy the best country. But it doesn't work that way.
Sure it does.
We know which countries are good at education (they mostly exist in Asia) and we don't even try to copy them
Because there are tradeoffs. They also do things like go to school year round, which we don't want to do. There are multiple considerations in play.
So how about the converse of what I asked earlier... if our education system is so terrible and we have the "right" to the equal education as a Japanese student, should Japan invade us in order to protect our right to good education?
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