>>John, if you'll go back and read my original post, I said I didn't disagree with you, but also added another factor. Didn't realize you were the ultra-sensitive type.
Right, and I responded to your additional factors of "choice and accountability" that now require explanation of why Dutch kids seem more capable in this respect and South Korean kids even more so. Seems to me you're identifying the symptom, not the cure.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1