Would you consider studying abroad?
• How much free time does a high school student in your country have?
• Do parents home-school their children in your country?
o What do you think of home-schooling?
o Do you know anyone who was home-schooled?
• Do you think that most parents influence what university their child will attend?
• Once you graduate from a university should you stop learning?
o What are some ways a person can continue to learn?
• Does education guarantee a good job?
• Which is more important, the essential skills in life you've learned to develop on your own or the artificial structure in college about the "real" life?
• Which high schools and colleges are the best in your country?
• Which high schools and colleges are not so good in your country?
• We should not just prepare for life, but live it. Do you agree?
• What kind of world do you think this would be if people never went to school?
• Should education be free?
• Do the elite in your country attend only one or two universities?
• Do elite universities help or harm your country?
• Does your country provide a good public school system?
• Do your children attend US schools? If so, how do their schools differ from those your children attended back home?
• Does your country have good public universities? If not, why do you think there is a lack of funding for education in your country?
• What realistic changes would you make to your country's attitude toward education?
• What role do you think human capital plays in the development of countries?
• Why do students cheat during tests and exams?
• How do they cheat?
• What is your attitude towards cheating?
• What are the dangers of cheating?
• How should parents react?
• How should teachers react?
• What is the role of school and decision makers?
• Where do we learn the skills necessary to become a good student - in elementary, middle or high school?
• What skills separate good students from bad students?