Why do countries with more irreligious people than Christians eg Singapore, S Korea, have the best schools?
Actually South Korea is 45-50% christian (nominally at least). They have converted in the last century. Possibly in part because eastern religions/philosophies were in part discredited by imperial Japan’s rather brutal behaviour, but also it would appear some effective missionaries, apparently coming to Korea at the time of the Welsh revival and Azusa street revival. Singapore has an elitist mentality, which is because it is a small state, and needs to survive on trade and technology, so they have been pretty single-minded about that. Being a small state may have advantages as well – in a large country education etc tend to be cumbersome and complex systems that are not so easy to alter. — School education being not as good as it could be in the UK and US (more) may be due to the laissez-faire economics those countries have adopted, as opposed to social contract capitalism. In Germany and France and Sweden and other states they appreciate the sense of having good general education as
