I guess that education is really more of a cultural thing than a fixed ideal. That being said it makes it much harder to say what kind of education is better. I think people tend to look at statistics and test scores when trying to evaluate education way to much. However I personally can't think of a better way than a test to measure how much someone has learned. I think that education epitomizes the culture of the people learning. It shows you how they think because how else do you teach someone than to cater to how they learn best? Yet this does present some problems because everyone is different and people can fall through the cracks in our current education system. I believe that the European system of education has won out predominately around the world. Looking at the reasons for this system winning out is explanation enough for why it won. The Europeans went out and explored the world, taking anything new back with them and then focused on teaching those things to one another. Not many other cultures ventured out and stayed spread out for that long to really create a global community. So in the end we have to ask ourselves. If a country has the best education system in the world, will that make it a future world power?