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08-04-2009, 02:40 AM
Quote: And, yes, the USA is largely an anti-intellectual society. So that's what needs to be changed -- and good luck trying.

I don't think that problem is exclusive to the US. I get the feeling that most of world is getting dumber by the year. Or maybe I'm just getting more arrogant and bitter.

We've been having kind of a serious debate about education and our educational system and its shortcomings here in Austria recently and it just showed how incredibly undervalued (not to mention underfunded) the teaching profession is (with the exclusion of a rather weird "elite university" project). After the parties milked the subject a bit for political change (meaningful phrase in English? "politisches Kleingeld") the topic sank back into obscurity, until the next PISA results get published.

Knowledge/Wisdom/Learning - call it what you will - just isn't sexy like a Michael Bay movie*. And yes, that was the bitter me talking.

Sorry for taking this further off-topic by the way.

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Tarabulus

*Sarcasm. Ha ha.
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locally grown - by --Pete - 08-04-2009, 01:53 AM
locally grown - by NuurAbSaal - 08-04-2009, 02:40 AM
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