... and, Hal, to add insult to injury, some of the government
executives, even down to clerks, have bought their jobs! Some owe 50
000 yuan (whihc is a load of mullah here) - my cook works to pay off
her husband's debt. & he doesn't get paid too well at all - hence the
'need' for bribery and corruption. Oh, oh, I feel another lecture
coming on .... so I'll stop there.
Androo
On 07/06/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I mean, what can a university education be worth if
> one can pay off one's student loans in less than three
> lifetimes?
>
> Hal
>
> "Generally speaking anybody is more
> interesting doing nothing than doing
> anything."
> --Gertrude Stein
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On Jun 6, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
>
> > kasper salonen wrote:
> >> that's the way I feel. but university is free in Finland, they
> >> have to
> >> rank people in somehow (& personally I think learning is a better
> >> method than money). plus they don't demand graduate level
> >> understanding of things, just enough to be able to see which 60
> >> people
> >> of the 400-or-so are allowed in.
> > What an immoral arrangement! Clearly they should admit all-comers,
> > irrespective of any qualification, and charge them handsomely for
> > the privilege of being spoon-fed at the level of the least capable
> > of their peers. That's the only way to run a world-class university
> > system these days.
> >
> > Dominic
>
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