> http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/sciencemath981203.html
(The US is "far behind" them.)
> A well-educated populace is generally a more rational populace. So that's
On Dec 5, 2:04pm, Terry Donaghe wrote:
On Dec 6, 6:38am, Terry Donaghe wrote:
On Dec 7, 5:16am, Terry Donaghe wrote:
And finally:
On Dec 5, 11:37pm, Spike Jones wrote:
>
> The articles refers to the education functions of Sweden, the Netherlands
> my tie-in to the list's subject matter. :)
> Doug Bailey
> Don't those countries (Sweden, the Netherlands) have socialist
> governments? I couldn't consider socialism to be particularly
> rational...
> As long as we in the US continue to demand government provided
> schools, our education system will remain poor. The function of our
> Remember, the free market ALWAYS provides better solutions to problems
> than the government.
> the u.s. must eventually face the hard truth on how damaging it is
> to our education system to hold to certain politically correct notions.
(talks about evolution vs. creationism.)
Indeed.
Let's see. Sweden and the Netherlands have better educational systems. They are also more socialist in general, and their schools are at least as socialized as ours. Obviously any AI with minimal pre-conceptions would have to conclude that the problem with US education is that we have too much government.
Or maybe it would conclude that this thread has shown a certain amount of libertarian political correctness.
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-)