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Originally Posted by Robbie
Nope, that would be the Aztecs, the Greeks, and in more "modern" times...the Germans (Strausberg in 1596)
Hardly an idea that our relatively "new" country came up with.
If you really think our educational system is so great, I have to totally disagree with you. It works, I'll give you that. But it's geared to the lowest common denominator levels and we get our asses smoked by a lot of other countries education systems.
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Well a couple of things....
1) I think our LOWER level educational system has a lot of problems, some places worse than others, and lots of other nations now have better public school systems at the lower levels than ours, but I would not trade it for a private school only approach ever. (I went to a private school for high school by the way and it was great, but it was also expensive and that's WHY it was great... I also went to a private school in second grade that was a religious private school and it was hell on earth.)
2) Now when you talk about HIGHER education, college, we ARE the best in the world. Period.
3) Just cause the Greeks and others had some forms of public education doesn't mean they had the kind of public education system that we pioneered. Ours was different and FAR more comprehensive.