Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 13:24:38 -0400 From: Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another article, from the "other side" Message-ID: <20010927132438.A42742@slackerbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20010927171312.C56631@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3BAFD532.6ED7A320@duth.gr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010926015428.01814630@threespace.com> <20010926125046.C1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926070519.A30531@blackhelicopters.org> <20010926132021.E1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926072915.A30655@blackhelicopters.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010927003714.01819658@threespace.com> <200109271345.f8RDjn116287@dungeon.home> <4.3.2.7.2.20010927100849.017f9938@threespace.com> <20010927171312.C56631@lpt.ens.fr>
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--envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:13:12PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >=20 > Yes, the US do spearhead the economy of the world, they are at the > technological cutting edge. In terms of economic policy, and also in > terms of the educational system (not mentioned by Sinclair, I think), > the US unquestionably got it right and everyone else is lagging far > behind. But I don't think that means one should not criticise the > foreign policy. And I certainly don't think the foreign policy is > justified by, or has any connection whatever with, these things. >=20 Oi. We most certainly do not lead the world in education. We don't pay teachers enough and when it comes time for teachers to take a stand they're considered ungrateful people. We don't promote individual thought - we inst= all defined thought. We have a select few really nice/good colleges that your average citizen could benefit from but cannot afford. It is my opinion that many European countries do it better. It's really jus= t a feeling since I haven't had the opportunity to see it in action so I could = be wrong. I have seen and gone through the U.S.A. educational system. George B= ush can say all he wants about wanting to help the educational system but I dou= bt his ability and I doubt his assistants ability to actually do something radically different about the problem. There are a lot of illiterate people in this country and there are a lot of people that can't do simple maths - I am one of those that has a hard time with math. I started out great in elementary school as a so-called 'gifted' child but it all went downhill af= ter that. Was it teenage rebellion? Doubt it. I never rebelled against anything when I was younger. I was an average catholic school kid with no clue about the real world and only knew what his teachers and parents told him. This is not the way to make kids smart by telling them what to think. But enough about that. There are probably whole books written on the subject of education failures and I won't attempt to sum all the problems up in one email. This is largely off-topic from the subject but you did mention it so= I figured why not? Oh and if you consider running a nation on capitalism to be 'good economic policy' I could probably think of a few reasons why capitalism isn't such a great thing. --=20 Carl Schmidt Just like the pied piper led rats through the streets We dance like marionettes swaying to the symphony of destruction http://slackerbsd.org/ --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: wx6iJk9IN+P+sNnP9fVxy2RD7xZddohQ iQA/AwUBO7Ng1SwXrqm5p/cQEQJ5+QCfYvEnHjTGVGplt7Ct5iR614S62dsAnAwf p8bFHtckp4AXm3NFEpqSNnBq =Yypo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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