Re: CHAT: New Member With Questions

At 4:21 pm -0500 18/3/01, David Peterson wrote:
>In a message dated 3/18/01 11:28:34 AM, ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
>
><< Good grief - and Americans are portrayed as more progressive than us! Not
>always true, it seems. >>
>
>Since when?
Early years of the 20th cent - if not earlier. The portrait of America in
Kafka's novel "Amerika" is typical of the way the US was seen in the
popular mind over here.

>All we hear over here is that our education system is the worst
>in the world
I hope not, in view of the position the US has in modern world.

And, in any case, quite a few people here equate (wrongly IMO) "progessive
education" with "poor education".

But I wasn't thinking of education in particular.  We tend to be more
parochial and compare our system (or rather systems, since Scotland has
always had its own separate system, and now Wales & Northern Ireland are
starting to go their own ways) with our immediate continental neighbors.  I
was thinking in general terms.

Ray.




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