Alex Clayton wrote:
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>>>> VanguardLH wrote:
>>>>> Alex Clayton wrote:
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>>> See that is because you most likely did not attend public school in the
>>> last 15 years or so, or if you did you were one of the few who got an
>>> education from one and not just a piece of paper saying you passed.
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>> Alex, I neither attended a public school nor in the last fifteen
>> years, so I'm reading you post as a complement to me.
>>
>> Or did you attend a public school in the last fifteen years??
>>
>> Daniel
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> Nope. I got done LONG ago. Back then you actually had to learn
> something, not just keep a chair warm. For quite a while now you just
> have to show up enough and they pass you to the next grade. At the end
> they hand you a paper saying you passed. Sadly many of them can't even
> read it. Most of them can use a computer of course, but when they go to
> a job interview for anything other than asking "would you like fries
> with that?" they are caught badly off guard. It is very sad.
> The school can still teach some of them, but they are forced to cater to
> the kids who are only there because they have to be and don't care.
I was also done with school LONG ago, at least on the receiving side.
Later, I was on the other side, teaching Electronics in the
mid-Eighties. At one stage, I was teaching Circuit Theory and gave the
students a circuit which needed six simultaneous equations to
solve....beyond me, let alone my students.
Not a problem, got in one of the specialist Mathematics teachers to show
us how it was done. The solution involved calculations like six and
three quarters times four and five eights.
I was doing these calculations in my head....wasn't long before the
students were just watching me mentally calculate these answers rather
than look at the Mathematics teacher.
All good fun!!
Daniel
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