Re: Global warming and your garden

In article <Xns9AA48B6B1D9Cenigmaempirenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 enigma <enigma@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:wildbilly-3C3CA6.09385920052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ct.net.au: 
> 
> > 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?
LCD has to be raised.
>  
> > 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. 
Complete agreement.
> OTOH, i'm all for the forbidding of 
> TV, but not so much forbidding recorded music...
I agree again.
>   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
It seems that it all boils down to the teacher, which is critical
if your going to have the same one for the next eight years. Teachers 
are like books and movies, they are good for some audiences and not 
others. Coloribus gustibus non disputatum as someone like to say;-)
-- 

Billy
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