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Subject: Schools
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Date: Mon, 8-Aug-83 17:07:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  8 17:07:35 1983
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Thanks to all who responded to my query on makeup and kids.  The next question
is what to do if you don't care for the private schools either?

It's not that I have anything against anyone, I'm really just curious as to
the options available.  Not only have I never read a good many of the books
considered to be representative of "literary art in the Western world", but
I would never try to do so.  There is just to much to learn!  As to other
subjects, I'm even less qualified.  However, it seems to me that there are
some large gaps in my education that I am VERY slowly starting to fill in.
It would be nice if some of those gaps were filled in by the educational
system.  Mostly, I'm thinking of things like world history, not Egyptian-
Greek-Roman-Western history, but India, Africa, South America, Russia, China
(Canada and Mexico, for that matter) etc?  Some of my friends from China can
rattle off 3000+ years of history and philosophical development in China, plus
an extensive smattering of Western history.  Come to think of it, my background
in American history is pretty poor too.  I have had many (read at least four)
classes that started with the American Revolution but never finished it.  Same
goes for early Greek history.  And they were all 'mandatory'. I've learned
about the Depression, WWI, WWII through the newspapers and TV.  Naturally,
that information is not complete. 

I think the educational system (both public and private) is an inefficient
teacher.  What do you think?

                                       LyndaF
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