Jogenin: Is it simply doing away with the exams that add all that pressure? I don't think it's that simple. The first best solution is to achieve agaletarian society, which and the cost of failure are lower. In some ways, competitiveness is intrinsic to education. Education will always be something of an armsd race. But if you have multiple, plural definitions of success, that might mean that these races are less burdensome on parents.
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