But for every such case – South Korea is the favorite example – there is another, like Hong Kong, where meteoric economic growth had nothing to do with centrally planned education policy. Instead, parents pushed their children towards the best schools to give them an individual head start – something parents do the world over – only after they got richer.
但答案还是否定的。近年工业化的几个国家成功推行了政府教育策略，似乎促进了经济的发展。韩国就是这方面最好的例子。但与此相对的情况也很常见，比如香港，那里飞速的经济发展与中央计划的教育政策毫不相关。相反，是家长们争先恐后把孩子送进最棒的学校，好让他们在竞争中领先－全世界的父母都是这样－但只有在生活富裕之后。