WEEKLY WATCH

OPINION Costly Education As a rule, the more families spend on education, the more developed a society is. In developed countries, families usually spend less than 10 percent of their incomes on children's education, but this can be as high as 32.6 percent for rural Chinese families, according to a recent survey. Parents' traditional high expectations of their children are partly responsible for this. Despite the staggering costs of education, par-