Academic-background society

I saw a feature program about the studying abroad of Korean elemetary school's students. The program said that in South Korea it has become a trend to make young children in elementary schools go to overseas and study. It is famous that academic background is extremely important in Korea. So this studying abroad during elementary school days is one arrangement to gain the English skills in early years because English qualifications are required condition to be employed in upper-class companies. Australia is introduced as one of the typical country to study. For example one school in Sydney, 10% of the students are such students from Korea. The school adds Korean signs in front of their schoolrooms. The program tells also bad aspects of this boom. Children are too young to go to another countries alone, so in many cases parents have to go with the children. It leads many husbands and wives divorce. And there was the sad affair. One man died of disease, but his wife and child were in abroad for studying. And he was detected after 5 days. From the program, I realized that to dapt the academic-background society is sooooo difficult for me. "Strike while the iron is hot". I think it is true. If the student studied hard in thier young days s/he would become hardworker. However I actually disagree with making children adapt to academic-background society in so early years. I think childhood is important to grow one's mentality. They should have chance to think about and dream their future freely. It is very sad if a child studied without any thinking of himself and just because their parents forced them. But, if the society requires academic-background absolutely, should people do more practical things rather that have a daydream? I don't know. How do you guys think? Anyway I think Japanese students had better to follow them a little bit. Some Japanese students are too apathetic about their study...