----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone Gordonssen" <stonegordonssen@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: The English School System
> >>I think something you did say highlighted a key difference between
> >>French and English teaching, I'm not sure which is better.
> >
> >Me neither. I guess at the end people are about the same level and as
used
> >up in both cases :((( .
>
> Either has to be better than the current system in the USA: can't hold
make
> anyone repeat a grade because that might traumatize their litle psyches,
and
> teach touchy-feely courses "What does a noun feel like to you? What does a
> verb feel like to you? What does 3 times 4 feel like to you?"
>
Repetion, doesn't happen much here. Just endless retakes of tests in later
years...