Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Quotes

“The prisoner's dilemma”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“Confidence, resilience, grit, mind-set, personality traits, social skills, and motivation have been found to be at least as important as cognitive skills in the workplace.”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“we need an education that enhances individual strengths, follows children's passions,”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“Sinophilism swiftly developed into Sinomania.”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“First, national standards and national curriculum, enforced by high-stakes testing, can at best teach students what is prescribed by the curriculum and expected by the standards. This system fails to expose students to content and skills in other areas. As a result, students talented in other areas never have the opportunity to discover those talents. Students with broader interests are discouraged, not rewarded. The system results in a population with similar skills in a narrow spectrum of talents. But especially in today's society, innovation and creativity are needed in many areas, some as yet undiscovered. Innovation and creativity come from cross-fertilization across different disciplines. A narrow educational experience hardly provides children opportunities to examine an issue from multiple disciplines.”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World

“Despite the challenges, Coca-Cola succeeded in the end. China has become Coca-Cola's third largest market in the world, after the United States and Mexico. It has invested over $5 billion in China. More important, Coca-Cola has blazed a trail for other foreign companies—Pepsi, KFC, McDonald's, Coors, Budweiser, IBM, Apple, Dell, Procter & Gamble, Walmart, Sheraton,”
― Yong Zhao, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World