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<p>The mentality which is part of the reason that the American education system is declining so rapidly.</p>
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<p>Singapore has 260,000 kids in primary school, 200,000 kids in secondary school, all of which must be processed for Edusave bursary scholarships (to meet the requirements, one must be low-income and have scored in the top 25% in their national exams).</p>
<p>Also the number of Singaporean students in university and polytechnic combined is > 150,000 (<a href=“http://www.singstat.gov.sg/pubn/reference/yos11/statsT-education.pdf[/url]”>http://www.singstat.gov.sg/pubn/reference/yos11/statsT-education.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>Singapore accomplishes all of this with 1.6% of the American GDP. Mind you, databases have economy of scale.</p>