Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
Heisenberg
Here's a video that was sent to me recently that I found really interesting in regards to how we educate children.
https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U
Very good. :thumbup:
Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
RonnieBird
That's because modern degrees from a "University" which used to be a polytechnic or a 24 hour petrol garage aren't really worth an 'O' level. Our degrees used to be more highly regarded than American ones, but that's reversed now.
Blair wanted everyone to be able to get a degree, (???). Well now they can but the degree they get is meaningless.
It's a characteristic of a number of advanced countries that have increasingly sent higher numbers of students to university in recent decades.
Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
It's a characteristic of a number of advanced countries that have increasingly sent higher numbers of students to university in recent decades.
I think the western world will eventually be overrun with sports scientists.
Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
splott parker
I think the western world will eventually be overrun with sports scientists.
At least they should be fit enough to overrun.
Re: We don need no educashun....?
Christ, when I left school you could be as thick as s**t and still get a job, slightly intelligent - white collar, thick - blue collar. Everybody could get a job.
Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
Cleve van Leef
Christ, when I left school you could be as thick as s**t and still get a job, slightly intelligent - white collar, thick - blue collar. Everybody could get a job.
It's a pity that such a system existed as countries such as German realised that intelligent and well-educated people were sorely needed in areas of employment that we considered to be need to be blue collar and inferior.
Re: We don need no educashun....?
Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
Heisenberg
Here's a video that was sent to me recently that I found really interesting in regards to how we educate children.
https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U
Very good Thank you for sharing this. He poses some big questions. The kind that no politician want to address.
The ones that suffer the most as a result are the young people in the system
Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
It's a characteristic of a number of advanced countries that have increasingly sent higher numbers of students to university in recent decades.
Do you think we're an advanced country now then ?
Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
RonnieBird
Do you think we're an advanced country now then ?
The IMF does.
Re: We don need no educashun....?
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
The IMF does.
I have visited 65 countries myself but one doesn't want to be too subjective by basing one's opinions merely on one's own selective sample, of course.
Yours
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