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- From: mellob@warren1c.its.rpi.edu
- Subject: EDUCATION
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- I think Mr. Kolstad has hit the nail right on the head.
- We have learned and practiced prolifically throughout
- the eighties, the method of "passing the buck." You can't
- blame it on the schools. You can't teach someone who doesn't
- want or know how to learn. The educatioal problems of this
- nation, in my opinion, start at a very early age in the home.
- When children are impressionable, they should be encouraged
- to learn and to develop a curiousness about the world aruond him/her.
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- Sender: mellob@warren1c.its.rpi.edu (Brett A. Mellor)
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:46:53 GMT
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- As for the japanese school system, I, like Joel, don't think i would
- particularily enjoy it there. All hard work and little play
- makes me cranky and not WILLING to learn. This is the impression
- I get of Japanese and Chinese school systems.
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- Does anybody know anything about the German school system? A freind of mine
- spent some time in school in Germany and told me that they were
- "wicked smart", mostly because of the competetiveness of the students.
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- Not to say that competetiveness among students can't become excessive. I
- have been told (rumors?) that at MIT one time, a student asked his
- roomate for help on a specific problem. The roomate refused simply
- because he felt he was in serious competition with everyone else.
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- When the Buck finally stops goin round, we'll be able to see where the real
- problem lies.
- -BRETT MELLOR
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