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The education 'system' is particularly poor in the UK, though. It obviously fails people in other countries, too, but the stories I've heard and experienced here, and much of the way it's set up, are definitely worse:
* Children can't concentrate in the afternoon. To have school in the afternoon just to force parents into work is shit.
* The examination system is absolute nonsense and should be abolished entirely.
* Further education is poorly organised. It's not perfect, but much better, where there is an expectation that people do a proper course to learn a job. It gives security and works far better for the economy in the long run.
That's not to take away from the work of teachers who have to operate in this system, or indeed to imagine that the difficulties in, say, heavily multi-lingual schools would magically be conquered by a better system, but there are so many obvious problems with it, many of which are only maintained because of 'tradition', that reform is urgently needed.