Interesting food for thought, thank you. I am personally convinced that to photograph you have to know about science, music, literature, etc. That's how you build a thought, a personal critical view... and a photo. Thanks again.

This is the same type of "Education" I was getting, from my Public School, here in America in the mid 1960's! Kids today are not being taught any of these very basic principles! So sad!

Don't know why KZfaq showed me this, but very glad it did. What an atrocity has happened to our education systems and societies! Bring back the old learned ways and practices.

I started school in 1955, we didn't get quite this level of education, but much better than today. We also have many academic after school activities, Physics club, astronomy club, chess club, etc.

The first version of the idea (democracy) was to make everything higher into common property, and as this was shown to be unfeasible, the next idea was to destroy all quality and superiority by merging it into the mass. The weaker Tradition was, the greater was the success of the mass-spirit. Thus in America, its victory was complete, and the principle of mass was applied even to the field of education. America with less than half the population of the home soil of Western Culture had in the 20th century ten times as many institutions of higher learning, so-called. For, in everything, Democracy must fail, even in success. The practice of giving everyone a diploma meant quite simply that the diploma became meaningless.

Thank you!

This is true , sadly, in so many fields now the art of song writing , for instance has all but disappeared.

Thank you!