2006-03-02

if I could set the rules... (2)

In schools:
-No junk food in school cafeterias. I don't care that it would violate the freedom to choose what you eat. It's dumb, the kids have little control over it, and many of them will regret it later.
-More general primary and secondary education: it's the time to learn and appreciate various activities and discover your passions (or realize you have no interest in certain things at all). So more languages, music, art, logic, math, philosophy, ecology, geography, etc.
-More phys.ed. in school: team and individual sports, gym, field and pool sports. Especially for those like me who sucked at it. I wish I knew how not to score in my own goal at soccer, for example.
-Find a way to change university funding programs to reduce the incentive on them to drop their standards, recruit like mad, and pump out grads that really won't be able to apply much of what they learned cuz they never got it. That's not doing anybody a favour, plus it's expensive.
More to follow...

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