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

From:Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 10:41
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.