Last Updated on November 4, 2025 by stlplace
K to 12 Education
I talked about this recently, here on YT in English. I just came across on the Chinese app Red Notes (XHS) professor Yang Zhen Ning talked about this and I agree with him (he talked in Chinese on this).
He talked about the education in the US compared to Japan too when answering Bill Moyers’ question in year 1988. Please note I am by no means trying to compare myself to the great and recently passed Yang Chen-Ning.
From my observations there are a lot of shortcomings in the US K to 12 education, and similar can be said to the oriental K to 12 education too. I think about it, I think one thing I liked about in general, is the parents, teachers and society in general don’t force kids to learn or take on a major or career solely for the sake of the money. I guess another way of saying it is: the liberty (freedom of choice, free will) is more appreciated here.
Passion
Because with that passion, I mean long lasting passion, not just a 5 minutes thing, a person can overcome many things including but not limiting to some deficiency in K to 12 educations. We all have that – even if we were K to 12 educated in China 🙂
So, try to find your passion, hopefully early in your life. 25 is not too late. For me personally I started my 1st full time job in the USA when I was 29. And now 25 years later, I think I made the right choice. Yes, I know the AI is trying to eat my lunch, but I am mastering the AI tools to make sure so that they won’t be successful in terms of “eating my lunch”.
(11-03-2025) I came across this from LinkedIn, and I liked it a lot. I pasted the picture below : t’s the content of that LinkedIn post.
I agree with Adam 100% here. Yesterday afternoon I happened to talk to a friend who is 12 years younger than me, and he shared similar sentiment with me. Thanks for the reminder, my friend 🙂