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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
>
I think you will be surprised how quickly that changes to 5, 6, 7 , 8 and
then we drop out of the G8 altogether.
There are a few people turning around a lot of money in banks, but in fact
many people in the UK live like in a third world country, several families
to a flat, and sleeping under bridges is more commonplace in London than in
Moscow.
They think they are well off because they earn several times more than the
Poles, but what is that worth when they pay double what the Poles pay to
live at the same level or worse and eat the same, or worse, food?
My parents didn't understand why I lived in an East European country until
they came here and saw with their own eyes. It took ten years of living in
Poland for me to persuade them to come over, and as soon as they did, they
were immediately smitten, and they'll probably take all their holidays there
now, instead of in France, which has been put firmly on the baque beurneure.
Uncle Davey
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