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- From: palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)
- Subject: Re: Budding Physicist
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.235042.1388@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University
- References: <93007.100220STANTONK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <93007.112134BAV2@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 23:50:42 GMT
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- In article <93007.112134BAV2@psuvm.psu.edu> <BAV2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >You have a bright kid, howevere. It would be a shame if he will be
- >spoiled by the rotten American education system
-
- I've replied by mail to the original questioner. However I could not let this
- comment pass unchallenged. There is nothing rotten about the American
- educational system. I came through it as did most of the correspondents in this
- newsgroup, and I don't think we were badly served at all. I infer from your
- syntax and name that you did not, and that you are an immigrant to the United
- States, just as I am an immigrant to Canada. The "system" here is also not
- rotten, and it is substantially the same as that in the US. My children came
- through the Canadian system and they were not spoiled, either.
-
- The rot in this system probably resides much closer to home, among parents who
- expect that the schools should do the full task of educating their children for
- them. The person who asked the question originally is not such a parent, and I
- expect his son will make out quite well, thank you.
-
- The questioner is from a Canadian university, by the way, in case you had not
- noticed.
-
- Leigh
-