Re: The Education Function

Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Sat, 5 Dec 1998 14:04:42 -0800 (PST)

Don't those countries (Sweden, the Netherlands) have socialist governments? I couldn't consider socialism to be particularly rational...

---The Baileys <nanotech@cwix.com> wrote:
>
> If you live in the United States you know how inadequate the public
> education system is. The following report illustrates how American
schools
> are incompetent in the areas of science and mathematics education:
>
>
http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/sciencemath981203.html
>
> The articles refers to the education functions of Sweden, the
Netherlands
> and other countries. I realize this list is frequented by
individuals from
> various foreign countries. I am interested in what your own view of
your
> country's education function is and how it is structured (primarily
public
> or private, year-round or summer vacation, class lengths, curricula
content,
> science and mathematics approach, extracurricular activities, amount
of
> field trips, etc.)
>
> A well-educated populace is generally a more rational populace. So
that's
> my tie-in to the list's subject matter. :)
>
> Doug Bailey
> doug.bailey@ey.com
> nanotech@cwix.com
>
>
>
>

==



Terry Donaghe: terry@donaghe.com
Individual, Anarcho-Capitalist, Environmentalist, Transhumanist, Mensan

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