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Originally Posted by Randerolf
What disturbs me is the idea that students are totally out of it and get showered with grants and gifts to go to school. I’m paying my own way for school and never seen a dollar of free money from the government. I see it all the time at school.
College is a business now. There is a spigot of government money to be had. Witness the number of seudo-Universities that do not educate, but charge insane amounts of money for degrees.
I saw an 20/20 special the other night: Stupid in America. It was very interesting. (I think Stossel is great anyways).
Reason article on Stupid in America.
ABC website with video |
I still have it on the Tivo. I was quite appalled to see the standardized tests taken by both American and Belgian students. I did like the Belgium student who said "Hello" in several languages and then challenged Americans as a teaster. Most Belgians I have ever met in my life, spoke at least 3 languages fluently.
When I lived in Singapore I had friends who were in the American school, British school, and Chinese schools. The British school was by far the hardest of the 3 with the American school being last. By me saying it was last, I do wish to state that it was however more challenging than any curriculum that I have ever seen. They had to compete with the other schools so their curriculum was much harder than any stateside American school.
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