Dirt is Good for Profit and Good for People
Brent GoslingLowe and Partners
Until recently, if you'd been a schoolchild in Saigon you almost certainly wouldn't have heard of the idea of 'playtime', and you'd be unlikely to have had any experience of it. That's because Vietnamese children spent the whole of their school day in a classroom. Aside from a short break for lunch, schools in Vietnam scheduled days of back-to-back lessons.
It's an approach to education common in much of the developing world. It's especially true in Asia, where learning by rote and high exam results are...