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This survey and some new paper - even theguardian.com 's interpretation for why China ranked highest is COMPLETE BULL CRAP. They don't know anything about China.
This is what I, an insider in China's society and education system have to say.
I have read some reports outlining which countries respect teachers the most, and one line said "only in China, teachers are compared on the same tier with doctors."
From theguardian.com the explanation was Asian societies revere teachers traditionally - PLEASE YOU IGNORANT WESTERNERS STOP BULLSHITTING - if there is no MONEY in becoming a teacher, the current citizens' moral level in China would not give a bird for teachers.
THAT IS BECAUSE DOCTORS ARE HELD LOWLY (compared to the west) in the current China's society where there's no credibility and not a properly regulated health care and medical system-and the way for doctors to make "enough" money is prescribe unnecessary drug, examinations, lie to the public, which they get returns in forms of "bribery" from corporate or pharmaceutical companies, and these require connections and "people" skills. EVERYTHING LOOKS TOWARDS MONEY and Chinese teachers MAKE DAMN GOOD MONEY because of all the extra outside of school studies classes due to the exam-based, solely-academic merit based structure of the education system - EDUCATION IS CHINESE PARENTS' BIGGEST INDUSTRY! And the article said China is the only country where almost 50% of the parents would encourage their kids to become teachers (compared to second best England at 25%) - WELL NO SHIT! AND PLEASE SHUT UP YOU DUMB WESTERN REPORTERS - If China abolished the education emphasis placed on pure exam and sole academic smartness (especially in smartness in the mathematics and sciences) and adopted your pseudo-capitalist "everyone wins" ideals, teaching profession would go down the shit hole in a matter of days.
In fact-if you had asked a Chinese parent would you rather your kid be a teacher in China, or dig their way through connections into becoming a stable government public sector (other than teaching) employee (which so often in the North American free market some people despise for the lethargy and bureaucracy), see what your responses are!
See The Guardian's article here: http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/oct/03/teacher-respect-status-global-survey
The full result is in an article from the HuffingtonPost: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/03/countries-respect-teacher_n_4032354.html
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