Re: Generalizing about U.S. education (was: Subject / Object / ?)

Isaac A. Penzev scripsit:
> John Cowan scripsit:
>
> > Consequently, people who claim that "U.S. schools" do or don't do this,
> > that, or the other are *always* generalizing from extremely limited
> > evidence, frequently personal experience.  (This includes me.)
>
> All right. Accept my apologies. I sincerely regret that my exclamation was
> so hurting. It seems like comments on education systems disobey the
> principle "No cross, no crown". I didn't intend to offend any person from
> this list.
I wasn't offended, though it seems that some people were.  I was just tryin
to clarify the situation.

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We want more school houses and less jails; more books and less arsenals;
more learning and less vice; more constant work and less crime; more
leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of
the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.  --Samuel Gompers