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Hi Selma,
Welcome back to USA. In regard to your post below, too much of a good thing
may not be the best. I would appreciate if you and other authorities on the
education can explain:
How come the American education system is so abysmal in spite of the highest
per capita student expenditure?
Why are those measurable data poor compared to the education systems of other
countries, including third world countries, which spend only a fraction in
educating their children?
If you are seeking the answers to these questions, you may want to read the
writings of the late Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate and Professor Emeritus in
Economics and a champion of free markets. One of Milton Friedman's cure for
the poor public school system in the USA is "student choice". And the Catholic
schools are a great alternative, which are significantly under-funded compared
to the public system.
The following statements were recently made at the US governor's meeting.
"Students in many other industrial countries are better educated than American
students. By the end of eighth grade students elsewhere are two years ahead of
American students," said William H. Schmidt, a Michigan State University
professor who studies education.
Some may wonder what is the similarity of American students and Goan students?
I would submit to you that both (especially the Goan Catholics), with the
influence of their parents, have a "me first" attitude and outlook to life.
Kind Regards, GL
------------- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A good education system exposes the mind to ideas, challenges limitations, taps
into creativity and makes possible the impossible. It is not adequate that
financial aid is made possible. It is more important to have the type of
facilities in terms of libraries, first class teachers at every level, books,
research labs, proper class size (the average size in Goa by the way is 60 per
class. Please compare this with an American 15-20 per class), sport facilities,
music, lack of environmental stressors (one school in Margao overlooks a
garbage dump, many don't have chairs or tables in the villages), availability
to information such as the internet (even though the computer scheme makes
computers available, it doesn't supply the software needed to make it viable).
These are just a few of the things an education system should encompass and
when made available to everyone, is successful in leveling the playing field
between the rich and the poor.
