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Amanda Ripley's The Smartest Kids In The World

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Basic, Boring, and Plain are just three words of how to never describe the thought provoking research book, The Smartest Kids in the World, by the author, Amanda Ripley, who logically argues that education must be reformed. She mainly underscores the need to apply the revolutionizing techniques that she deliberately unveils to the audience with a hurl of statistics and appealing testimonies from foreign exchange students to the very developed nation: The United States. Ripley urges the nation to implement more rigor into students’ coursework, hire highly educated teachers, and hold both teachers and students accountable for results in order to prepare students for the flood of trenches that lay ahead. The author quickly grasps the attention of the reader by presenting three unlikely candidates, Finland, Poland, and South Korea, as her main role models of a good educational system that the modern world should learn from. It almost seems like she is trying to convince the world that indeed there are elephants on top of earth who are trying to balance the globe from falling. However, as she begins to take the reader on an journey through Finland, Poland ,and South Korea’s educational system and how they got there, she is able to quench the preconceived notions with the same agility an exterminator eradicates a bug’s life. She …show more content…

If a reader is looking for a vivid adventure with drama then Ripley's book will feel longer than Moby Dick. In a broad scope her book is for people that want to be more involved with social and political issues that are now trending. More specifically, her research is the perfect cup of tea for those who are interested in education and are looking for ways to make changes in their own education because Ripley provides a plethora of information regarding how habits outside and inside of school can affect a student's

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