2019-04-08

Governments should celebrate the boom in private education
State schools can learn from the private sector; governments can work with it
原文来源：The Economist 2019-4-13

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https://frankzhougq.github.io/article/TE-2019-04-08/

Notes

place a high value on brains
focus on

The Chinese now spend 5% of household income on education and the Indians 4%, compared with 2.5% for the Americans and 1% for the Europeans.

private schooling, tuition, vocational and tertiary education are booming
职业教育，职业技术学校，高等教育，大学

Since brainpower is the primary generator of progress
想想科学技术是第一生产力

this burst of enthusiasm for investing in human capital
火起来了

use education to shape young minds
government’s method to keep citizens under control

the former one-child policy
独生子女policy

cities are growing at unmanageable speed
不可控的速度

the private sector is taking up the slack

take up the 'slack
to improve the way money or people are used in an organization 提高（资金或人员使用的）效率

herding richer ones towards better schools
使得something向某地方移动

will enhance their already superior life chances and poorer ones towards shoddy establishments that will further undermine their prospects
改善他们本已优越的人生机会；进一步恶化他们的未来发展

governments are squeezing private schools, banning profits, cutting or capping fees, and using regulations to close them or make their life difficult.
挤压排挤

tutoring children out of school
周末的课外补课

bidding up the price of property near good state schools.
推动房价上涨，哪里的房？公立牛校附近的学区房

Whether governments formally allow it or not, people will find ways of buying private education, by tutoring children out of school or bidding up the price of property near good state schools.

Freedom from union power and independent management are at the root of its superior performance and greater efficiency.
A is at the root of B: A是B的原因

give school principals more autonomy to innovate and to fire underperforming teachers.
给予学校校长更多的自主权去创新