>>> have more to do with American schools emphasis on social development rather than on computational, literary and scientific skills. >>
Sure. See my post of Nicholas Kristof's NY Times column a couple months ago, "The Hubris of the Humanities" (USMA 35336 / 2005 Dec 6) which said exactly that. But lets face it, for all the rationalization the reason these soft skills are emphasied is that they're just plain **easier**. The hard skills are deemed "too hard", the rest is excuses. That gets back to Scott's video! Nat
