ABSTRACT
Academic research has long aspired to explain differences in academic performance and it became clear that education also links, in one way or another, to economic performance. Asian Americans exhibit the highest median household income and highest level of education of all United States racial groups, even surpassing native-born White Americans. Societies place a premium on socialising individuals with the ‘tools’ to cultivate sustain throughout their lives, and education is the vehicle through which this is achieved. Confucianism views holistic human betterment as a key objective of education and socialisation, with discipline being an integral part of that educational spirit. Future research on the Confucianism, Discipline, and Competitiveness framework and model could ‘replace’ national level competitiveness with individual competitive productivity as the ultimate dependent variable. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
