摘要：This discussant paperconcentrates on two issues. The first pertains to the cultural characteristics of the education market in Asia and in East Asia in particular. It examines the notion of privatization in some Asian countries and observes that the arguments for privatization are very different from those that prevail in the west. The second issue has more far reaching implications. It pertains to the changing role for schooling in a knowledge-based society. The paper explores the implications of such a change to the market in education
