On 4/21/06, adi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:49:06PM -0000, m.c. ptrwn wrote: > > "It's important to understand if children don't have those skill sets > > (in maths and science) needed to compete with a child from India, or a > > child from China, the new jobs will be going there,"Bush told students > > and teachers at the Parkland Magnet Middle School for Aerospace > > Technology outside Washington DC. > > isu ini sudah lama didengung-dengunkan di antara numerical analysts, kalau > tidak salah ingat, sekitar tahun 1996-8, meliputi perubahan kurikulum > matematika di sono. tahun-tahun itu, mathematician, statistician, umumnya > ditongkrongin oleh orang-orang 'dari luar'. isunya bukan nasionalisme kali :-) > kenyataan bahwa pakar-pakar ini diimpor dari luar (latar belakang pendidikan > dari luar AS), isu ini jauh lebih penting.
Di Time Magazine edisi U.S. bulan April (http://tinyurl.com/gnlrb) yg menjadi Cover Story 30% dari U.S. High School students D.O. Padahal ketika bulan Maret di Time Magazine edisi Asia yg menjadi cover story "Asia's Overscheduled Kids"(http://tinyurl.com/jqptv), kesan-nya orang2 Asia meng-over-push anak2nya meskipun ada alasan tersendiri mengapa hal ini terjadi "..Why has this state of affairs persisted? One answer is the region's historical instability. The Asian drive for advancement has always been sharpened by traumatic and seemingly haphazard events. There's a revolution, flood, famine, dictatorship, evacuation, massacre or coup within the memory of almost every Asian. Even if an entire country cleans the mud of the collective farm from between its toes and marches towards a glittering future of service-sector jobs and flat-screen TVs in every home, it only takes a currency crisis or a strange pox like SARS to shake collective confidence to the core...." So setelah pernyataan Bush (bukan Friedman lagi) anak mana yg justru terlena selama ini. Kalau di Indonesia kisah klasik putus sekolah biasanya gara2 harus bantu orang tua, sudah menjadi tulang punggung keluarga di usia muda atau keluarga sudah tidak mampu membiayai pendidikan. Kalau di U.S. more likely lagu Liam Lynch, "United States of Whatever". -edo-
