Mandatory education is to create pliable citizens. Most countries give it undue weight, but Asians especially merged the Prussian style of "factory schools", which were a byproduct of Napoleon stomping them, with Confucian ideals to create a very rigid system to churn out worker-citizens.Is the completion rate of japanese schools that bad that they need to constantly try to motivate manga readers to stay in school?
That would explain all of the "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STAY IN SCHOOL AND KILL YOURSELF STUDYING FOR UNIVERSITY PLEASE!!!!!!" plot points in a lot of manga.Mandatory education is to create pliable citizens. Most countries give it undue weight, but Asians especially merged the Prussian style of "factory schools", which were a byproduct of Napoleon stomping them, with Confucian ideals to create a very rigid system to churn out worker-citizens.
It's not specific to the east, they are more focused on testing, standardization, and compliance because of those Confucian ideals, but the west has lowered the bar while continuing the undue time investment, 12-16 years of life, and lowering that bar actually kicks the can further down to higher education, diluting it and creating an industry of credential stamping. Reading John Taylor Gatto reframed a lot of my private suspicions formed during my own stay in public education.That would explain all of the "PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STAY IN SCHOOL AND KILL YOURSELF STUDYING FOR UNIVERSITY PLEASE!!!!!!" plot points in a lot of manga.