China’s schools are testing factories. Why is Britain so keen to copy them? | Simon Jenkins

Our government seems determined to move towards the Chinese style of hothousing pupils, just as China is waking up to the folly of such methods

This evening the BBC will carry forward the great myth that Chinese education is “better” than Britain’s. A documentary comparing Chinese and British teachers in a Hampshire school will show Chinese teachers appalled at how disruptive, challenging and idle British pupils could be. That, by implication, is why Chinese children do better, far better, in...