Re: Global warming and your garden

Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:wildbilly-3C3CA6.09385920052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> Actually, education has followed the complexity of
> weaponry. The more complex the weapon, the smarter the
> soldier must be to use it. Come the day that soldiers need
> to be able to solve for "x", everybody will be taught
> algebra. 

 but weaonry is being made for use by lowest common 
denominator... so how does that work?
 
> I'll put in a word for the Waldorf schools. A guy that I
> used to do tae-kwon-do with taught in a Waldorf school. He
> had a class of about 10 students. He would have them from
> 1st grade through 8th. Because he knew each student's
> abilities he didn't need to test. Unfortunately, Waldorf is
> expensive.

 not any more than any other private school, really. Boo's in 
Montessori because the closest Waldorf school is halfway 
across the state. i also disagree with one facet of their 
philosophy, which is that children should not read until age 
8. while some kids aren't ready to read until then, forbidding 
reading seems wrongheaded. OTOH, i'm all for the forbidding of 
TV, but not so much forbidding recorded music...
  i really like Waldorf's focus on nature & fantasy... but i 
don't think it would have suited Boo's analytical nature 
nearly as well as Montessori does. 
lee
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