Education today is miles ahead of old school.
You got that right. Even though I quit teaching about 10 years ago, when I temporarily took over another teacher's class or supervised a final exam I was amazed at how detailed the content was compared to when I attended school.
Just because you lack the skills necessary to work with money doesn't mean it isn't important. That is why you will never move up from sorting beer cans.
Once again you are unable to post a comment without adding an insult. Are you so lacking in confidence regarding your "thoughts" that you are unable to let your post stand on its own merits?
Here's the thing about comparing educational standards. Almost all the comparisons are based on math and science because those are pretty much the only two subjects that can be compared nation to nation and which are regularly subjected to international test scores. These comparisons leave out many other important areas of learning such as literature, history, political science, and geography to name a few. I'm betting that if you were able to test those areas many of the nations in the top ten in math and science would not fare nearly as well, especially given that several of them are not democracies.
And here's another thought regarding math. I learned all of the math I needed in life by the end of grade six. After that it was just one year after the other of learning abstract concepts that had little or no application in daily life. I have nothing against students who are interested in learning higher concepts in math doing so, but for most students post-primary math class is a complete waste of time.
