03-13-2003, 10:20 PM
Hail Shadow,
I can only comment on Australia, of cause, and I must say, we are so stupid it baffles me! The average High School graduate is barely literate in my experience, and I am constantly shocked by a decreasing intelligence in University students. As a lovely little story, I once met the cream of a University, and ended up hurting with laughter as one student (Engineering) was unable to read the word 'Wednesday' - the whole "Whe-whe-whed-whednes-whednesday" bit tickled my fancy, even if I were disgusted.
Then again, given the level of the Australian Education system, does it really matter? After all, you can always come to University to 'study' surfing, and other such wonderful areas vital to the world. It'll only get worse too, as funding is ever cut from most everything - except the important things, like Law. After all, everyone knows we need more people studying a degree they'll never use (I don't know: do you guys also have a lot of commedians who studied Law for some inexplicable reason?), and those that do have about a 50% chance (please note, 90% of all statistics are made up ;) ) of chosing to make the world a worse place.
As you can probably tell, I think quite highly of our education system: after all, I am sure there are not too many other places where you would have teachers who care so less they don't even teach anything, and make up marks on assignments they did not create, to create the illusion they did something over the year. Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not completely against teachers. Two of my mates are in it, and I had a couple of good teachers in the past: it's just the education system itself I find pathetic. But fear not: we are apparently #7 in the world...gee, that makes me feel all the better about the future.
Roll on the Apocalypse: anything could be an improvement!
I can only comment on Australia, of cause, and I must say, we are so stupid it baffles me! The average High School graduate is barely literate in my experience, and I am constantly shocked by a decreasing intelligence in University students. As a lovely little story, I once met the cream of a University, and ended up hurting with laughter as one student (Engineering) was unable to read the word 'Wednesday' - the whole "Whe-whe-whed-whednes-whednesday" bit tickled my fancy, even if I were disgusted.
Then again, given the level of the Australian Education system, does it really matter? After all, you can always come to University to 'study' surfing, and other such wonderful areas vital to the world. It'll only get worse too, as funding is ever cut from most everything - except the important things, like Law. After all, everyone knows we need more people studying a degree they'll never use (I don't know: do you guys also have a lot of commedians who studied Law for some inexplicable reason?), and those that do have about a 50% chance (please note, 90% of all statistics are made up ;) ) of chosing to make the world a worse place.
As you can probably tell, I think quite highly of our education system: after all, I am sure there are not too many other places where you would have teachers who care so less they don't even teach anything, and make up marks on assignments they did not create, to create the illusion they did something over the year. Now, don't get me wrong: I'm not completely against teachers. Two of my mates are in it, and I had a couple of good teachers in the past: it's just the education system itself I find pathetic. But fear not: we are apparently #7 in the world...gee, that makes me feel all the better about the future.
Roll on the Apocalypse: anything could be an improvement!
May the wind pick up your heels and your sword strike true.