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More than time for a huge change!
posted by
adnohr
on October 26, 2012 at 6:00 AM
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We are not civilized Yet Pat I think it will take another five hundred years.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 26, 2012 at 12:03 AM
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Pat
The problem isn't just one of the church-run schools! Most serious analysts agree that the whole American education has deteriorated badly, and continues on a downward trend when compared to other countries. (One exception to that dismal picture appears to be the situation in many graduate schools.) Of course, we have similar issues here in Canada.
And it isn't a question of money, as many claim, but rather one of philosophy. Where in other countries academic subjects are of primary importance, here kids spend time on things like 'promoting self-esteem', 'family life', 'consumer training' and similar stuff; and frequently any striving for excellence is nipped in the bud since it will inevitably lead to differences in outcome; and that contradicts the prevailing doctrine of the need for an equality of outcome...
posted by
Nautikos
on October 25, 2012 at 6:35 PM
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what scares me is that women are voting for these looney tunes!!!
posted by
Annicita
on October 25, 2012 at 5:06 PM
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PatB
Wonderful post. Seems to me that the legislatures of our countries should create issues that only females can consider before law is written. Men can consider other issues like vasectomies for males as Kabu has just mentioned.
posted by
WileyJohn
on October 25, 2012 at 4:24 PM
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I see your news all over here as well as US stations. I see all the
Canadian news and then I go to my Computer and read the Australian. It is a three ring circus of dangerous nonsense going on, in three countries I am sick of it all.
posted by
Kabu
on October 25, 2012 at 4:06 PM
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This reminds me of the quote:
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
I have written before about Idiocracy... If we vote into power ignoramuses who really believe some of the crap they seem to feel quite justified in speaking aloud, just because a lot of us wish they were right in their simplistic, absurdist views of reality, humanity, and the place of religion in government policy, then a lot of us are the idiots.
posted by
Ciel
on October 25, 2012 at 3:56 PM
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