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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't want my kid going through the British system. They specialize kids say too early there. They start narrowing kids to a specialty at 16, when they choose a few A levels. Most British kids drop languages then, which is why it:s an area of weakness for the UK. If you are going into the sciences, you'll never take another history course after age 16, and a prospective history major won't take another science course. At university, you take few courses outside your field. You can also loaf until final exams (unless you are at Oxbridge under the tutorial system).

That doesn't really make for a well educated population. I'm consistently floored when I speak.to Europeans,especially scientists. They are often very ignorant of the world outside their own field. My American scientist friends all understand my field of economics and have taken courses in it. The European scientists couldn't define economicd. Say what you like about the multicultural studies requirementd, but at least they have made white kids from the burbs think about tbeir place in society.
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Were you drinking as you wrote this? [/quote]

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