Curious wrote:ASP wrote:russian politics and history are important thats why.
I went from MODERN day russian education to english and it was exactly 2 classes back, i even finished school at 16.
And soviet education was the dominant at its time, whith the discovery of internet etc... it would be even more effective in the 21st century.
The amount of books people were required to read and the usefull strictness in schools that kept our youth moral ... is legendary.
all countries' politics and history are important, world history and politics are important, no country is an island - my argument is that Danish kids receive a broad globally oriented education which is very valuable - without someone literally beating knowledge into them. i'm not saying soviet education isn't good, although i thoroughly disagree with the teaching methods used, i think a lot of russians (not all) are very well educated, but you can't just stereotype and say that all Westerners are poorly educated compared to russians when you don't know the education level in all Western countries
Ive done the SAT the GCSE The Russian Exams.. and i have relatives in america, Canada and some friends in england... whom i can compare to.
its not stereotyping its a fact. Instability between classes causes the education level to drop too... and the west has a big problem with that. but its even worse in modern russia now ....
Btw, nobody beat knowledge into people in the soviet union, there were just higher standarts, and a different morality, u wont understand it coz u never studied by our system. it doesnt work with capitalism though.