On 08/28/2011 09:12 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14683133
doesn't frankly surprise me; after all "Being British" is all
about dumbing down things to the lowest common denominator;
education, over-regulation (after all, if 5% of the
population are morons the government must screw up
everybody's life by regulating things to protect the morons from
themselves: maybe the morons should be told "you are morons,
get off your fat, supplementary-benefit-fed bottoms and start
getting your brains working).
I don't think the phenomenon is limited to the UK, sadly.
The base of the pillar is the family. Too many parents are anti-academic
10 points for Gryffindor!
or
don't care enough to see that their kids have at least the same
opportunities that the parents had at the same age (or better, where it
should be). Fix the base, everything else becomes a lot easier.
Education should start and finish at home; the odd, stray bit of
education at some vaguely educational institution in the middle might be
useful, but is not strictly necessary.
Best regards,
Lynn Fredricks
President
Paradigma Software
http://www.paradigmasoft.com
Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server
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