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...South Viet Nam a student who passes an exam is a dau; a flunkster is called a rot. A schoolchild clever enough to remain a dau through 13 years of classes and pass his bachot (baccalaureate exam) becomes a tri thuc (intellectual), and has few further worries. The young nation has a shortage of scholars and a Confucian reverence for learning, and young male tri thucs get autos, villas and high-paying jobs from rich parents of marriageable daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pass or Rot | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...flunkster ever yet was barred

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wistfully, the Weed | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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