kp posted:caribny posted:kp posted:This is true Dictatorship, now they want to limit ones ability to learn.
Learn what? How to pass exams. Seriously. School is from 8-3. Extra curricular is supposed to be from 3-7. Rather than engaging in character building activities, that will provide them with life skills that will be critical to their success, they then go to extra lessons.
The teachers need to cut this extra lessons racket. Only kids with particular challenges in a subject area ought to be engaged in this.
Someone who is educated would not make such statement, because they know how important education is in their success in life. A good example is the Silicone Valley it is dominated with highly educated Chinese and Indians. The talk of character building and life skills are usually fed by the parents and family circle, maybe other races don't have that benefit. I have two kids and they are both highly educated but along the way they engage in sports and other social activities. If the youths in Guyana were educated ,one they will be gainfully employed, secondly, they would not sit back and allow any and all ignorant government control them.As for extra lessons, if a family has the economic means, then they should be able to give their children that extra boost, it is not just a pass mark, but marks that will enable one to get a scholarship at a top university. Life is a competition.only the cream rises at the top.
I believe about 70 of the Phds in this country are earned by foreigners. Americans get most of the Phds in social science rather than the natural sciences. The nerds are ones in high demand in America's hi-tech companies. There is a call for American students to concentrate more on the sciences. There is a reason why