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Abstract In foreign people’s eyes, Norway’s life quality ranks first in the world, especially its strong economy, generous state welfare, and free higher education accessible to everybody. In recent years, however, cracks start to appear in its seemly perfect image, especially when it comes to education quality. The main reason is that Norway changed its curriculum and learned from American education after WWII. In recent forty years, education quality has been declining and teachers’ social status has been getting worse. The current educational strategy of the government is to strengthen the training of the teachers of weak academic ability, and yet it seemingly does not work. To address this issue, this paper suggests learning from China to construct a learning culture. In China’s learning culture, parents and grandparents are all concerned about giving their children good education, and teaching as a profession is respected. This learning culture in East Asia can be traced back to the great Chinese philosopher Confucius.
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Received: 18 June 2015
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2015, Vol. 32 
