Tyrant

Americans are fat.

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Kei

Okay.

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Ames

Made me Lol.

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Fred

I'm not fat...


-runs twenty laps around the house-

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Kei

...

What's the matter, scared?

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Vivi

Our education system does fail horribly. Not sure if worse than Europe, though.

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Kurushimi

Neither am I.

-runs one lap, gets tired and goes inside to watch tv and eat chips-

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~ xkcd

GENERATION 4: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

Tyrant

It's OK though because the Canadian army is a team of pickup trucks and Europeans are ugly. Everybody loses wins.

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Ames

Compared to America, English schools teach material at almost a full grade level above the American Standard. That is, a "4th Grader" in England knows about as much as a "5th Grader" in America.

German schools are so utterly different in fundamental construction as to make a comparison nearly nonsensical. The German system certainly is far better in training individuals for vocational work (after all, not everyone needs a College Education to do their job), but American Schools far exceed the German system in training all children to a similar standard. Thus, while German children will surpass American children in any specific field of knowledge, American children easily surpass German children in terms of breadth of knowledge.

French Schools are currently fairly good, however their system is so Lovecraftian that it is actually incredibly amazing that they are able to KEEP teachers, let alone have those teachers be effective.

The American University system is also quite different than in Europe. There is no concept of “General Education” requirements across most the continent; people go directly into their majors and never really get exposed to what one might call the modern “Humanities” (those subjects that a decent human should be well familiar with). This allows most European Colleges to grant the equivalent of a Master’s Degree (at least, it is closer to a Master’s Degree than a Bachelor’s) during the same time as an American individual would get a Bachelor’s Degree, however their versatility is far less.

America’s currently problem with education is that a lot of “ideas” have been implemented into schools without any evidence that they are useful. Homework is a big one; there is the idea that assigning hours and hours of homework every night is a good thing, but all evidence suggests that more than 15 minutes of exercises has no significant impact on the student. Thus, the more homework American schools give students in an attempt to improve them, the less effective that homework is, the less time children have to develop their own interests, and the more children dislike learning.

Another problem is that the American school systems themselves are ****-backwards. The highest paid individual in a given education system is the Superintendent. The person who helps educates the students the least is the Superintendent. On the other hand, teachers get paid the least yet they are the ones carrying out the entire goal of the education system: educating our children!

Indeed, all indications show that the more administrative staff a school system has, the less effective it is. Get rid of anyone over Principle, except for basic clerical staff, and the system would improve.

*I've been to many and you better just stop now before you dig yourself deeper*

Your attitude proves nothing but my facts sinking into that thing you call a brain.

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Kei

I started to respond to all that, and the first half wasn't helping your side.

But, fuck, tl;dr. I can't argue about Europe's school system, because I don't know it. I just hate when ******s say something is better if they're not the same thing. It's two different places with different laws and stuff. They're not going to work the same.

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Ames

I understand.

Like I said, I am both and I hate the stereotypes created and thrown at eachother b/c of no apparent reason.

Peace and love mahn!

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Kei

I think you're fine because you're pretty much American. You shouldn't have made me waste all of that energy.

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Ames

Lol, I know people tend to blow this topic out of proportion but we are alot closer then you think.

Just my two cents, thats all ;)

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Kei

Uh.

Don't say that again. That was pretty gay.

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Ames

You'll see, once you get out of the US.

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