Taiwan as 反面教材

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Sarah McCarthy, Hoof Prints: Learning Lessons from Taiwan.
http://stillwatergazette.com/201 ... essons-from-taiwan/

My comment:
(a)
(i) Stillwater, Minnesota
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillwater,_Minnesota
(in Washington County; The city was named for the calm waters of the St Croix River)
(ii) St Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Croix_River_(Wisconsin–Minnesota)
(a tributary of the Mississippi River; "Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin's 1688 map recorded a 'Fort St Croix' on the upper reaches of the river. The name 'Rivière de Sainte-Croix' was applied to the river sometime in 1688 or 1689")

St Croix is French for "Saint Cross."  Why, I fail to find out.

(b) "Social studies teacher Matt Kiedrowski traveled to Taiwan with his wife in 2006 for a three-year trip to teach junior high aged kids."

國立科學工業園區實驗高中 National Experimental High School at the Hsinchu Science Park (NEHS; 1982- ; located at 新竹市)

(c) "The school he taught at was poor by US standards, but in Taiwan the school was exceptional. * * * [The students were] Coming from a gated community and children of CEO parents"
(i) My reading is the school was impoverished, rather than offered poor education.
(ii) When I came to US in 1984, perhaps Taiwan's per capita GDP (PPP) was 40%, if my memory served me well. But my amazement was not about americans' living standards, but freedom of speech -- there was a general election, and on behalf of local democrats (he lieved in Chicago), Jesse Jackson denounced President Ron Reagan in campaign trail in my university.