From: Zenarchy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 15:21:01 MST
>Back on the education front, I think at least half the problem is with
>the modern idea of "an education" that lasts a few years early in life
>and that's that. Almost nothing I need to know on an everyday basis
>even existed when I was at school, and almost nothing I learnt at school
>is at all useful to me. The time I spent there was almost entirely wasted,
>and cost the tax-payers of the time a huge amount of money. It's not just
>education funding that we have to change, it's the entire educational
>philosophy.
>
> Mark
Yes, especially primary education, which has become a combination of
day-care centers and political correctness indoctrination camps. -zen
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