It's time for some campaignin'

[Lang Bang]

There is a great music video called It's Time for Some Compaignin'
www.peteyandpetunia.com/VoteHere/VoteHere.htm

It's funny and catchy.

[Duvet]

Moved to Music.

I'll watch it later if I'm bored enough.

[Lang Bang]

Second time my topic was moved.

[hellomeow]

rofl, pretty sweet song. Obama on flying unicorns is pretty funny. I still find that I like him at least for all the changes he intends to make in terms of American education and also the money to be expended on scientific advance. This sort of thing reminds me of how utterly awful Canadian education is in comparison to the US, despite the fact that the US actually has pretty shitty graduate turnout rates and students who proceed onto post-secondary education apparently, rofl. Still, it would be nice to be in an education system that didn't absorb shit, as compared to Canada.

[Lang Bang]

Sept 13, 2008 10:25:39 GMT -5 @hellomeow said:

rofl, pretty sweet song. Obama on flying unicorns is pretty funny. I still find that I like him at least for all the changes he intends to make in terms of American education and also the money to be expended on scientific advance. This sort of thing reminds me of how utterly awful Canadian education is in comparison to the US, despite the fact that the US actually has pretty shitty graduate turnout rates and students who proceed onto post-secondary education apparently, rofl. Still, it would be nice to be in an education system that didn't absorb shit, as compared to Canada.

Our Education isn't that bad. In the US, there is more of a split between rich schools, and poor schools. Canada's schools mostly falls under middle class.

[hellomeow]

Meh, everything I have heard about American education makes it sounds amazing (and Australian education, don't even go there) in terms of the things that kids are taught. Most of what we are currently learning in our math courses for Grade 12 Advanced Functions is just the same basic crap covered in Algebra II in the US, which from what I understand most students take in either Grade 10 or Grade 11. Compared to that, most kids end up taking Calculus or Precalculus in Grade 11 or Grade 12, which covers the basics of Calculus and Vectors in Ontario, and some first year mathematics. Our education really absorbs in comparison I would say; from an Australian girl I once talked to it is not uncommon to be given a TI-nspire for an Algebra II course in Australia provided that you also give a deposit of a certain amount of money returned to you after the course. With resources like that at hand students have MUCH better educational opportunities available.

Then again, all I have been talking about is Math, rofl. Physics and Chemistry seems quite similar in America from what I can tell at least; a lot of Daryl's Physics homework was almost the exact same as what we learned in our Grade 11 chemistry class about the Combined and Ideal Gas Laws, rofl. They seem to not pick up on things like relativity and things like that, I'm interested in how much they teach relevant to hydrocarbons or equilibrium in comparison to our chemistry/physics courses. As for English; who gives two fucks about English? It's a worthless course that just occupies space that can be spent on more fulfilling subjects.

[Daryl]

I would like to point out that the Rational Root Theorem is the only thing you mentioned that I learned in Algebra II.

Edit: And the proof for the quadratic equation.

[Lang Bang]

There is an former American at our school, and he said that a 50% in Canada is 65% in the US.

[Daryl]

Perhaps in the sense that here a 65% is a D and a 64% is an F, while up there a 50% is a D and a 49% is an F.

[hellomeow]

I looked up a lot of the other subjects taught in Algebra II, and it covers most of what we were taught either last year, learning this year, or simply not going to be taught altogether (Conic Sections). And yeah, getting an A in America is harder than getting an A in Canada from my understanding of the grading system.

I wonder how worthless a Master's Degree from a top-tier Canadian university is compared to a Master's Degree from a top-tier American university is.

[Lang Bang]

Sept 14, 2008 2:07:38 GMT -5 @hellomeow said:

I looked up a lot of the other subjects taught in Algebra II, and it covers most of what we were taught either last year, learning this year, or simply not going to be taught altogether (Conic Sections). And yeah, getting an A in America is harder than getting an A in Canada from my understanding of the grading system.

I wonder how worthless a Master's Degree from a top-tier Canadian university is compared to a Master's Degree from a top-tier American university is.

Funny, the American I talked to said it was easier to get an A in America. As far as universities go, they are in it's own tier. Look at Mircrosoft. Every year, Bill Gates went to University of Waterloo to heir new people because Waterloo is world's best for programing. Sheridan is also world's best for Animation. There isn't really any standards, just recognition.

[hellomeow]

I fail to understand how both Waterloo and Sheridan can both be the world's best for programming, but I can definitely see the significance of your words. I suppose that grading and standards for various American (and Canadian) institutions for secondary education would vary with the school at hand, such as Choate Rosemary Hall compared to Daryl's rich fucking white people school.

As for tertiary education, I guess I would want to go to Waterloo or McMaster's if only to be able to get a Master's Degree in mathematical theory or physics, McMaster's would probably be better for neurology though. That being said I still think my work standard is sub-par for the work standards of those universities, rofl.

[Lang Bang]

Sept 14, 2008 9:37:35 GMT -5 @hellomeow said:

I fail to understand how both Waterloo and Sheridan can both be the world's best for programming

It was a typo, and I fixed it. I meant to say that Sheridan is the best for Animations.