Of course I do not take your message as an offence! A good debate is always based on controversial opinions.
And still! I dissagree on your point of:
You state that ... Poor education starts with a poor education system not the students, if Teachers cannot be bothered to teach and correct good spelling and grammar, what chance do the students have, they are not to know at that stage of their life, that the quality of teaching is letting them down.
We left Medieval age far back behind us. In a modern World there are so many possibilities to Edicate ourselves. It is all about: if instead of buying Video games or cell phones and such ... parents could spend more money on books,tuitors or to take a child to a library or a museum, time from time.
Please pay attention .... I am talking about children. Children do not work 24/7 nowdays. If you are talking about 3rd World countries then it is a totaly different topic to discus.
It is so simple to find an exuse for something we do not want to do.
Yeah,Len! Sometimes I wish wiseness could be passed by Genetic. You know like a type of blood. Alas! We have to go through Ad astra per aspera smaking every freaking corner of Universe of Human feelings. And the point of our life jorney is ... We get wise and then it is time to die. Sooo ... at least it keeps us amused to the road to grave.
What? What it was about hearing the wise,Len? lol You are daydreaming Aren't you?
Us, Humans were born to be dumb ... Even IF we do learn on our mistakes. We do make a new ones. We are stuborn,arrogant and ill-bred children of Nature ... because we do not need to survive anylonger. We are Gods ... at least we think so. Good morning
... A situation reminds me a line of Ian from Jurassic Park movie ... (can't remember it word to word) but the meaning is: Yeah! They all do OOOHH and AHHH! when they first see them (dinosaurs) but later they run and scream and die.
Women like her do not learn anything. Don't you feel it by looking the way she talks,walks,glances. I just feel that she keeps something behind your back. She is going to creat a whorl ( especially on Israel Palestinian level) If so .. it is going to be bad ... very bad for the Planet. Don't want to sound pessimistic ... Alas! normaly (99.9%) I do read people accurate. I'm Pisces,Trish.
I would be patient yet .... Can't explain it, but do have not an inspiriting gut feelings. Especialy after he made Hilary Clinton a Secretary of a State. What a dumb decision ( and it is my PERSONAL opinion)
RE: Out of these 5, which poet is your favorite?
Interesting hm..1. Dante Alighieri
2. Shakespeare
3.Michelangelo Buonarroti
3.Rudaki
4.Goethe
5.Rumi
6. Japanese Haiku and Tanka
7. Anna Achmatova
8.Marina Zvetaeva
9. Alexander Block
10.Vladimir Vysozckiy