Comments on: The UK’s exam-focused educational system is similar to the one in China https://www.isegoria.net/2017/12/the-uks-exam-focused-educational-system-is-similar-to-the-one-in-china/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:40:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2017/12/the-uks-exam-focused-educational-system-is-similar-to-the-one-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-2603315 Isegoria Fri, 29 Dec 2017 16:10:23 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42862#comment-2603315 You’re right, Grasspunk. He wasn’t funny at all back then.

]]> By: Sam J. https://www.isegoria.net/2017/12/the-uks-exam-focused-educational-system-is-similar-to-the-one-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-2603313 Sam J. Fri, 29 Dec 2017 15:37:46 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42862#comment-2603313 I read the post but haven’t read the links yet for a reason. I want to comment that I feel a lot of the decline in the US is because of business schools. Business schools teach them that they can run anything just by knowing business. I say that’s nonsense. I came firmly to this conclusion after wondering just what was wrong with Lockheed Martin’s F-35. On a hunch I looked up the CEO, sure enough a Woman who formally ran a bread company. Same story with Hewlett-Packard. These people are plenty smart but they know somewhat what their businesses can do, right now, but they have no idea or the technical chops to see what is possible in the future. They’re blind. All they know is numbers. They will fail long term. Sure they won’t disappear but they will never be what they were or what they could be. Look at Musk, I know people hate him, but he has a vision and the technical ability to see that the shortest path to this vision is what’s being worked on. The Lady running the F-35 program doesn’t have a damn clue. Probably one of those people who runs around blaming all the idiots she has to work with the whole time they can’t get management to move in the direction needed to complete the task they assign because they, just don’t know.

I’ll read the links now and see what he says.

]]> By: Grasspunk https://www.isegoria.net/2017/12/the-uks-exam-focused-educational-system-is-similar-to-the-one-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-2603311 Grasspunk Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:12:14 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42862#comment-2603311 He has an essay in the Economist from 2013 on applying for his MBA.

He wasn’t as funny back then.

]]> By: Grasspunk https://www.isegoria.net/2017/12/the-uks-exam-focused-educational-system-is-similar-to-the-one-in-china/comment-page-1/#comment-2603309 Grasspunk Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:54:30 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42862#comment-2603309 OK that was great. At Stanford Graduate School of Business:

I told him that at Goldman our motto was “be long-term greedy.” The professor couldn’t understand this motto or why it was inspiring. I explained to him that everyone else in the market was short-term greedy and, as a result, we took all their money. Since traders like money, this was inspiring.

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