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I see your point, but "out here in the fields" (quote The Who song - Wont get fooled again:D)
You know an engineer can be a genious with a hundred top grades, but whats matters when he has to get a job is his ability to cooporate and work as a part of a group... these things are very improtant later in life...
No... i just think it's old fashioned the way it is marked with only one single number
Today you arent marked with your grades for life!? when you finished your education and starts to work it doesn't matter anymore...
If you look at how the world look today, how the company's train their staff in teamwork project training and such i just dont think it matches the grade system...
we should have a more flexible way of evaluating the students...
it shouldnt all come down to one achievement one exam one grade....
whats says the most about a person works and how good he is, 50 words og a two digit grade?
As you say though in the real world they are not the msot important thing.........
Actually my old teacher at my school who teaches "company teachings" (how a firm is put together and such) he's an architacht and used to employ people and he said in some cases too good grades are bad for you, because people tend to combine high grades with low social life if you know what i mean?
not saying you that you shouldnt try your best, but its a fact he said...
I know,
But what leaders do think about is how that person fits in the group he has to work with, how good he cooporates, his work morale and if he can solve the assignments he is presented with...
Its difficult to assess such things though, I suppose it is natural for us to want to quantify things, even when it is not entirely appropriate......
Corrupt governments always come out in hard times. Take European history: During the 1930's depression some countries, Germany and Italy, because facists countries.
Its the same today. Until the economy is stable, a stable government can't be reached. Its a vicious cycle though...
blaming your governments is a fucking cop out. you do something if they won't.
george harrison and bob dylan did it for bangladesh in the early seventies. then theres bob geldof and his crew. if hard drinking drug taking pop song singers are good at saving millions for a short while ...just think what you educated, inteligent, clean living folks could do ...it's called charity, it's called money, it's called being actualy bothered enough to ..............give.
you got a wallet? you got some time ...no i thought not.
My family gives around £2000 a year to charity. I give to beggars and buy Big issue.
I do care for the injustices in the world and try to do what i can about them
I give to a variety of charities, do voluntry work, community work donating time, money and resources. My mum since the death of my dad has committed her life to voluntry work - working with refugees and people facing massive human rights abuse, putting her own life on the life at times. Many of my friends give both time and money
But giving to charity does not solve the problem, that can only come about with time and by changing both the economic sytem and the political systems of many of the nations involved.
And M.Roll, only those with power can do that.
As has been shown recently, the popstarts may have helped in the 80's, all that charity money given but Ethiopia is very little better off now....
not to mention what's going on in the Congo.
and guess whos funding/fuelling that!
Rwanda and Uganda at the moment I believe...
it is also a big leap to say the international arms trade is primarily basedin these two conutries can you back that up?
THe US/Uk aren't to blame fro everything.............
I read in the Guardian (it was quite a small article so I haven't been able to find it on their website) that a weapons company from the UK has been selling automatic rifle ammo magazines to factions fighting in the Congo. Maybe not the US/UK directly, but the weapons companies that they support with taxpayers money are.
Yes I can believe that but as I said I doubt that most of their weapons come form the UK/US and I doubt it is the root of the problem.........
Me and: Exactly private schools aren't better for some magic special reason, it is because they get more money and can turn away less intelligent pupils, if state schools had the same admission policies and the same amount of money they would do as well.......
Jacq: I don't look very Danish, I am quite dark and I imagine Danes as being normally blonde (apart form you)
I'm just posting for the sake of argument