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To: TobagoJack who wrote (50263)	5/21/2009 5:13:09 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218816

What a country that is returning to its natural size copes with it: nytimes.com This is the shape of things to come in OECD countries.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (50263)	5/21/2009 8:28:15 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 218816

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To: TobagoJack who wrote (50263)	5/21/2009 5:11:05 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 218816

I don't know if you have read Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age - one of the subtexts concerns a more rounded education with a Victorian prespective - where people do their duty, children must contribute, people die, and some people seek revenge. Sort of an anti-Disney.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (50263)	5/24/2009 10:21:08 PM
From: pezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218816

<<The curriculum includes the usual Chinese and English languages, mathematics, arts, martial arts, moral / civic education, and technology (multimedia / PC), and the less than usual, such as building tents to withstand arctic conditions, designing robots for a rescue mission in a simulated avalanche and creating environmentally friendly houses for people in tropical zones.>> HOW OLD IS THIS KID!!?? << my take of the market is that its true worth will continue to crater over the next ten years, green shoots will get stumped on, gold will dominate >> Come on TJ whatda really think?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (50263)	5/25/2009 5:22:07 AM
From: elmatador	2 Recommendations Respond to of 218816

The product education is paid by parents but consumed by the child. Education must be packaged, marketed to excite parents to buy it. Kind will go along until he start getting smart. The he can judge the prodcut by itself and is already looking to what they are comfortable with, and exercising judgment. If the kid do not smart up by age of 10-12 years, then the kid will most likely will not smart up ever. If the kid that does not smart up, consume the product education without judging or questioning. Those are valuable kids for the system. They will tow the line, without discussing it nor questioning it. The kid who smarts up at that age is going to say: Wait a minute! Am I going to gobble all that crap for 9 years more!!! Experiment by 11 years want it out Curitiba International School (ISC) and want to move to the Brazilian system. I gave her her first lesson on decision making: I told her this is the first decision you are making and when one make a decision one must live with it for the rest of your life. The good thing about options that one choose is that one is experiencing freedom. And Freedom carries the price of responsibility. No one will be blamed for that decision. And there is no way to return to where you were and restart. I explained about the arrow of time. Time passed can never be regained. Even if you return to the physical space that that school was and still is, it will no longer be the same. It will be a different moment in time. The only thing you will take with you, is: I did what I had to do. No one forced me. I have been free. There are few people in this planet who can say that. Your daddy is one of them. She moved and has been there for the past 12 months. I aksed about how is it going on. She says: Math teacher is very bad, if you do not understand she will treat you like crap. In ISC wasn't like that. I said: The good thing about the move is: When you choose, by making a decision, you have ways to compare. Staying put, you ahve no means to compare. This, what I explained above, is per se the education.