Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>
Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)


> En réponse à John Cowan :
>
>
> >The point is that *generalizing* across the education system of the U.S.
> >is invariably ill-informed, because *nobody* is well informed on this
> >subject.  Some schools are very good, some are very bad.  Some are
> >traditional, some are not.  There's no particular correlation.  Or
> >maybe there is, but *nobody knows*, because nobody has done the
> >research, or could afford to.
>
> Still, people complain about the "American education system" (even though
> it doesn't exist as such) from about everywhere in America, whatever their
> origin and location. It must mean something about the average level of
> education.
Or about the average tendency to complain...  While I can only speak
personally about the schooling in three districts, I can tell you that the
people I've met tend to enjoy complaining about anything the government's up
to, be it education, defense, taxes, whatever.