Cубъективные впечатления могут быть разные. Вот что говорит PISA OECD report за 2009 год:
Top-performing countries or economies in reading literacy include Hong Kong-China (with a mean score of 533),
Singapore (526), Canada (524), New Zealand (521), Japan (520) and Australia (515).
In the PISA 2009 mathematics assessment, the OECD countries Finland, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands,
New Zealand, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Estonia, Iceland, Denmark, Slovenia and the partner countries and
economies Chinese Taipei, Liechtenstein and Macao-China also perform significantly above the OECD average in
mathematics.
In science, New Zealand, Canada, Estonia, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom,
Slovenia, Poland, Ireland and Belgium as well as the partner country and economies Chinese Taipei, Liechtenstein and
Macao-China also perform significantly above the OECD average