Episode Details

A BBC documentary called Korea's schools the best in the world — tutoring until midnight, up at six for class. A listener who lived it asks the question the film never does: best at what? This episode digs into the CSAT, the hagwons that track it, Korea's fight to strip "killer questions" out of the exam, and Finland's opposite bet: no formal school until seven, almost no standardized testing, minimal homework. Both systems got called the best. Both have cracks. The real question is whether we have any good evidence about which schools produce not just high scorers, but healthy, successful adults. Episode #861300 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/861300