🚀 go-pugleaf

 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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 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.

 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.

 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.

 When the Buck finally stops goin round, we'll be able to see where the real
 problem lies.
			-BRETT MELLOR