Comment on China’s College Entry Test, Gao Kao, Is National ObsessionComments−jerryji17yA huge number of people chasing after so few opportunities as their ultimate dream -- Wait, you are not talking about Silicon Valley?−jhancock17yIf you fail in Silicon Valley, you go back to a great paying middle class job. If you fail to get into a good Chinese university, you spend your life in poverty.−wallflower17yThere was a really good discussion on News.YC about this a while back:"I was driven mad by the Chinese education system"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482257
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A huge number of people chasing after so few opportunities as their ultimate dream -- Wait, you are not talking about Silicon Valley?
If you fail in Silicon Valley, you go back to a great paying middle class job. If you fail to get into a good Chinese university, you spend your life in poverty.
There was a really good discussion on News.YC about this a while back:
"I was driven mad by the Chinese education system"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=482257