What does it mean to be Canadian?
Jun 15th 2012 | 1:51 am
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Jun 15th 2012 | 2:03 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
I've probably been to more schools up here than most and it’s frightening how poor the quality of education is in the modern day. No passion, they don't challenge their students, no creativity, moany self-entitled teachers, unimaginative and saccharinely sweet administrators yet they all labour under the delusion that it’s some sort of educational nirvana. You just want to shake them and yell “its terrible, they [children] can’t all work up at “camp†or Zellers.†It’s not much better at the HE level. At least there are some foreign students to brighten the conversion up a bit.
Jun 15th 2012 | 2:57 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
I agree in full.
As a place to spend a little time (perhaps in the full flush of youth) and to let one's hair down, yes.
But to live and raise a family, no. The 'biege' Cardiff scene is repeated ad nauseum, every night, on every 'biege' High Street, from Penzance to Perthshire.
The beauty of Canada is its neutrality and it never pretends to be more than it is, as opposed to The UK, the latter not sophisticated enough to be France, yet too sophisticated to be Karachi.
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As a place to spend a little time (perhaps in the full flush of youth) and to let one's hair down, yes.
But to live and raise a family, no. The 'biege' Cardiff scene is repeated ad nauseum, every night, on every 'biege' High Street, from Penzance to Perthshire.
The beauty of Canada is its neutrality and it never pretends to be more than it is, as opposed to The UK, the latter not sophisticated enough to be France, yet too sophisticated to be Karachi.
FROTSUK
So where do your beige, chavvy, binge drinking, loutish family and friends live in the UK? Mine are in Yorkshire, Herts, London, and a various few other places
Jun 15th 2012 | 3:56 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
Gladly.
I was originally being flipant on the grammar used by the poster; using a bit of intuition, I am guessing he/she is a Teacher, a British-trained one, now teaching in Canada. If a Teacher, he/she appears not to understand the basics of the 'possessive'; this provided with me a sense of what the Germans call SHOD-n-froy-duh
Then I became more serious that Canada has a world class universal Education system. However, of course, such a system does not replace what parents should/could do at home to broaden the 'worldliness' of their children ("your Job").
In The UK there is such an over-reliance on the school from craddle to grave to inculcate all knowledge, parents often simply wash their hands from lifting a finger ("the State").
That is unless, of course, they do not get their 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice of where to send little Chardonay...then they get all silly and over-indulgent attempting to be 'litigious' with their LEA.
Savy?
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I was originally being flipant on the grammar used by the poster; using a bit of intuition, I am guessing he/she is a Teacher, a British-trained one, now teaching in Canada. If a Teacher, he/she appears not to understand the basics of the 'possessive'; this provided with me a sense of what the Germans call SHOD-n-froy-duh
Then I became more serious that Canada has a world class universal Education system. However, of course, such a system does not replace what parents should/could do at home to broaden the 'worldliness' of their children ("your Job").
In The UK there is such an over-reliance on the school from craddle to grave to inculcate all knowledge, parents often simply wash their hands from lifting a finger ("the State").
That is unless, of course, they do not get their 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice of where to send little Chardonay...then they get all silly and over-indulgent attempting to be 'litigious' with their LEA.
Savy?
FROTSUK
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Jun 15th 2012 | 3:57 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
That wasn't the impression I got. I thought my kids were very much pushed at school. Except in History, of course, there's next to no history taught. Why they couldn't get 100% after the nth year of hearing about the Plains of bloody Abraham, I dunno.
Jun 15th 2012 | 3:58 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
Gladly.
I was originally being flipant on the grammar of the poster; using a bit of intution, I am guessing he/she is a Teacher, a British-trained one, now teaching in Canada. If a Teacher, if He/she appears not to understand the basics of the 'possessive'; this provided with me a sense of what the Germans call SHOD-n-froy-duh
Then I became more serious that Canada has a world class universal Education system. However, of course, such a system does not replace what parents should/could do at home to broaden the 'worldliness' of their children ("your Job").
In The UK there is such an over-reliance on the school from craddle to grave to inculcate all knowledge, parents often simply wash their hands from lifting a finger ("the State").
That is unless, of course, they do not get their 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice of where to send little Chardonay...then they get all silly and over-indulgent attempting to be 'litigious' with their LEA.
Savy?
FROTSUK
I was originally being flipant on the grammar of the poster; using a bit of intution, I am guessing he/she is a Teacher, a British-trained one, now teaching in Canada. If a Teacher, if He/she appears not to understand the basics of the 'possessive'; this provided with me a sense of what the Germans call SHOD-n-froy-duh
Then I became more serious that Canada has a world class universal Education system. However, of course, such a system does not replace what parents should/could do at home to broaden the 'worldliness' of their children ("your Job").
In The UK there is such an over-reliance on the school from craddle to grave to inculcate all knowledge, parents often simply wash their hands from lifting a finger ("the State").
That is unless, of course, they do not get their 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice of where to send little Chardonay...then they get all silly and over-indulgent attempting to be 'litigious' with their LEA.
Savy?
FROTSUK
Jun 15th 2012 | 4:22 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
Honestly, why are you concerned over such superficial things? Oh, do share your ~worldly European knowledge and save us Canadians from our savage North American ways.
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Jun 15th 2012 | 4:33 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
I don't believe the majority of posters hate it in Canada. I, for one, do not.
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Jun 15th 2012 | 4:44 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
Gladly.
I was originally being flipant on the grammar used by the poster; using a bit of intuition, I am guessing he/she is a Teacher, a British-trained one, now teaching in Canada. If a Teacher, he/she appears not to understand the basics of the 'possessive'; this provided with me a sense of what the Germans call SHOD-n-froy-duh
Then I became more serious that Canada has a world class universal Education system. However, of course, such a system does not replace what parents should/could do at home to broaden the 'worldliness' of their children ("your Job").
In The UK there is such an over-reliance on the school from craddle to grave to inculcate all knowledge, parents often simply wash their hands from lifting a finger ("the State").
That is unless, of course, they do not get their 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice of where to send little Chardonay...then they get all silly and over-indulgent attempting to be 'litigious' with their LEA.
Savy?
FROTSUK
I was originally being flipant on the grammar used by the poster; using a bit of intuition, I am guessing he/she is a Teacher, a British-trained one, now teaching in Canada. If a Teacher, he/she appears not to understand the basics of the 'possessive'; this provided with me a sense of what the Germans call SHOD-n-froy-duh
Then I became more serious that Canada has a world class universal Education system. However, of course, such a system does not replace what parents should/could do at home to broaden the 'worldliness' of their children ("your Job").
In The UK there is such an over-reliance on the school from craddle to grave to inculcate all knowledge, parents often simply wash their hands from lifting a finger ("the State").
That is unless, of course, they do not get their 1st, 2nd or 3rd choice of where to send little Chardonay...then they get all silly and over-indulgent attempting to be 'litigious' with their LEA.
Savy?
FROTSUK
How can one really compare whether, let's say, a degree recognised in England, is the equivalent of one obtained in the US, in India, in China, in Australia?
Are plumbers, mechanics and chefs really any less "happy" than doctors, accountants and University teachers? If so, why?
I suspect that there are lots of research papers out there stating that societies that have a large percentage of residents with higher education certificates are much "better" than those with a lower percentage but what does this actually mean?
Are modern societies really any better off than those of a thousand years ago? I appreciate that medicine means that more live longer today to be kept alive in wheelchairs, with supplementary oxygen and with the assistance of people to care for them in institutions, than was the case when Simon Kenton was around but, really, is this a good thing?
Jun 15th 2012 | 6:33 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
But you are right Europeans on a whole are much more worldly wise and savvy than North Americans.
Jun 15th 2012 | 6:39 am
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Re: What does it mean to be Canadian?
im not concerned at all far from it..i dont honestly care how people dress or what music they listen too..its a general observation..some people may view it as a positive comment...and would love to have 80s hair and clothes back in fashion.
But you are right Europeans on a whole are much more worldly wise and savvy than North Americans.
But you are right Europeans on a whole are much more worldly wise and savvy than North Americans.
What do you mean by savvy?
