[extropy-chat] it's all understandable, except

[Eugen Leitl]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 07:44:42PM -0800, Olga Bourlin wrote:

> ...).  The school I attended in Rio was much stricter, and much, much more 
> advanced in terms of scholastics - I was doing long division and 
> multiplication, until I came to America ... when kids my age had barely 

I can provide a similiar data point for the Russian school system (I crossed
over from 7th grade in 1980 UdSSR to 7th grade 1980 Germany, and found
that many things were lagging over here. I've heard similiar experiences 
about direct comparisons with Germany and US for mid-1980s (public schools,
I presume, and the comparison was similiarly disastrous). Of course, things have
gone considerably downhill since, about everywhere.

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