Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
To cøaim that your education system is "broken", a "wreck" etc etc is nonsense.

If it is, then no education system in the history of mankind anywhere in the world has ever working. The fact is that education is tugging along nicely amidst all the hyperbole and daydreaming about a glorified pt that has never been.

The fact is that kids today learn much, much more than they did back in the 50's. And kids ten years from now will learn even more than kids today learn. Thus if wwe want to improve our (already good) schools, then we must look to the future, not bring back the flaws of yesterdays system.
To be quite honest, what you just said is nonsense. I doubt you have ever sat in on the typical American classroom and I doubt you have any idea what you are talking about when it comes to the atmosphere and the culture within the American classroom. America is falling behind, that is because our system is broken. To say that kids today learn more then they did back then and same with the kid of the future is quite foolish. You obviously don't know about how American schools has been pushed since the adoption of the "No Child Left Behind", kids are increasingly being taught to do well on a test. The kids are not learning, they are practicing to be good test takers and their motivations to learn beyond the basic curriculum's (math and english and science to a lesser degree) are completely gone. Please don't run your mouth about the undermining American culture towards education when you are sitting in your arctic paradise funded by oil profits.