On 10 May 2010 21:17, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
In my country, we don't solve complex problems.
We go to the store and
buy things that we can't afford, and we sit on the couch and watch other
people play games.
... a predominant human behaviour (well at least in bit where I live) of the
21st century summed up in 31 words. Nicely done.
I was going to say I never got any benefit from learning some latin (which
has now all completely atrophied), but I am very fond of pizza.
There's not much hope for children learning to solve complex problems when
it's completely beyond their teachers :(
I despair when I see 'ICT' in the school curriculum reduced to bloody pie
charts created with you-know-what.
--
Pete Edwards
"It looks just like a Telefunken U-47" - Frank Zappa