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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (24878)	9/16/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

De nada! About impressing, or trying to impress: I hope you realize that was not my intent! A scientist's apprenticeship is a drawn-out affair. Onre thing to realize is that once I had my BA degree, I became financially independent. My graduate studies were on a stipend that sufficed for day-to-day life (scoring campus housing all five years helped there, let me tell you) and generally grad school felt less like school than some transitional and very cool job. Briana's high school sounds most excellently crunchy! I have one concern though. Does the school require/emphasize the teaching of knowledge? As I grow older, I am of the growing opinion that the real task of high school is to instill the basis of verbal, factual and cultural literacy. This cannot be done without a lot of structured (even rote) material. The great tragedy of our new system of education is that we have a graduating class that a) cannot quote Homer, b) thinks Homer's the fat guy in an animated sitcom. I hope Briana's new school sweats literacy as well as developmental psychology.