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DesertFox
09-02-2007, 03:56 PM
Ted Byfield

The Canadian news media, so it seems, are finally getting on to a story that broke about 50 years ago, which they missed at the time and have been missing ever since.

I know, because I was one of the reporters who missed it.

Judging by the stuff appearing of late in the national media, we are beginning to discover that our school system has been fairly well ruined by crackpot ideas, introduced in the 1950s by reformers of supposedly unchallengeable authority.

They were in fact challenged at the time by older, life-long teachers who protested that these new concepts were hair-brained, if not downright insane.

More (http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Byfield_Ted/2007/09/02/4464974-sun.php)

Timberwolf
09-02-2007, 05:08 PM
Now, if this attitude will only catch on here, SOUTH of the border!! Man, that has got to be one of the best articles I've ever read...actually inspires optimism and hope for the future (well, in Canada anyway).

Kathy30
09-26-2007, 03:01 PM
I agree wholeheartedly. If 12 year olds were put to work there would be a lot fewer of them in gangs.

Neil Peart
09-26-2007, 03:27 PM
What kind of morons thought that those kinds of ideas that happened all those years ago would be anything BUT disastrous?