Re: [Paddlewise] Self education and saftey.

I don't see where any of this has much to do with
paddling.  Certainly the best paddlers are not the
product of classes.  Classes are good and a help to
get past initial hurdles, but most good paddlers that
I know learned most of what they know ether without
classes on their own after taking classes to get
started.

--- Michael Orchard <mspadorchard_at_attbi.com> wrote:
> In theory this is true...but in practice, so few
> people really read on a
> daily basis for information and a significant part
> of their
> recreation...

Do you mean as in books?  People certainly read online
information, usually when they should be working :) 
If you include that, I bet people read as much as they
ever did.

> and so few people really value
> education any more....this
> is the main problem with our education system...that
> it is not really
> highly valued in our society to be thoughtful or
> educated.

This is just plain rubbish.  The main problem with our
education system is that it is a failure of it's own
right.  Not only are students not taught to think,
they aren't even encouraged to.

This is especially true in math and the sciences. 
Students are taught to regurgitate info and to solve
problems by memorized techniques with only a rare few
of them actually understanding any of the underlying
principles.  This has been the case as long as I can
remember (I am old enough to remember when there was
no TV).

I always believed that people who got a real education
often did it in spite of their formal education,
rather than because of it.

Pete

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