[extropy-chat] here's how complicated it is

[Al Brooks]

Having a weak stomach, hearing about metal detectors
in schools makes me queasy. So let's say in the decade
of the '20s metal detectors might not work anymore
because students are bringing new plastic weapons into
school. 
Not to be alarmist, the situation may very well
stabilize or improve during the next decade; yet given
how we wait until a situation gets really gnarly,
perhaps bad schools in bad neighborhoods-- 
do good schools exist in bad neighborhoods?-- 
will assume SF proportions.



> Couldn't get worse than it is?  Now *I'm* the
> idealist.  I can
> easily imagine it being much worse.  But I'm mainly
> a realist
> still:  you think that almost all education in
> history wasn't much
> much worse?  Well, think again.  It was.  And it's
> worse throughout
> most of the world too  (some very significant and
> interesting countries
> excepted).
> 
> Lee
> 
> P.S. to all the rest of you idealists.  Just tell me
> anything real where
> education was or is so much better than here, or in
> the west generally.
> We should do it here like it was done where?  Or by
> whom?
> 
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