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Subject: Re: This is for RF and anyone else who thinks the UK's education system is so brilliant
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:59:42 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:22:48 +0000 (UTC), "Uncle Davey" <noway@jose.com> wrote:
>
>Look what a mess they've made of it.
>
>They're trying to stop kids from being allowed to take a lot of gcses now.
>
>When I was a kid it was O levels, and I got thirteen, and one thing you can
>say is it enables you to get very broad in your basic education before
>starting to specialise, and now they are against that. I guess British kids
>are gonna get dumber and dumber until they won't have the ability required
>to clean a toilet.
>
Progressive teaching methods allied with a desire to reduce individual
competitiveness caused a lot of damage in the 60s and 70s. We now have a
generation many members of which can't spell, punctuate, form a coherent spoken
sentence and who don't know what a percentage is.
Nevertheless you don't get to be number 4 in world economic terms with a
population of thickos.
JPG
>Uncle Davey
>
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