Quote Originally Posted by RedCydranth
One of the major differences between american schooling and european schooling is the introduction of languages. In every school I've seen here in america the introduction of French, Spanish OR Latin (sometimes German) isn't until 6th or 7th grade and isn't a mandatory subject until high school. Whereas, from what I've learned of eeuropean culture, children are taught foreign languages at a much earlier grade level.
I can't speak the whole country, obviously, but I know the only place I learnt any foriegn languages before year 7 (6th Grade in America) was in two years of private schooling. In addition our selection of languages (And subjects in general, for that matter.) is extremely limited compared to the schools of Americans I know. We could do French and German. Spanish was dropped because nobody was ever taking it, I don't think there was an Italian in the first place, there was certainly no Latin. There was Japanese, but nobody told any of us about that until it was much too late.

If the British education system worked as it was intended I'd consider it only lacking with regards to the choice of subjects. As it is however, I'd go to great lengths to have the chance to have had schooling in the US. Maybe someone might have noticed the whole 'horrifically intelligent' part and pushed me.

But hey, no point ranting about it, right? I personally do prefer America, but that's not to say Britain isn't a damn fine place to live. If we'd just take a baseball bat to the Nanny State's crotch, and did a bit less encouraging stupidity and a bit more encouraging success, we'd probably climb back up to the top, where we should be.

Quote Originally Posted by Glendon
What do most British people think of the James Bond movies?

Why did you inflict the Spice Girls on the rest of the world?

WTF? http://www.chavscum.co.uk
Most Brits I know of think the Bond movies are pretty spiffy. Can't complain myself, since we put old Pierce in the role we've had the best Bond since Sean.

The same reason we're currently inflicting Coldplay on the rest of the world. The majority of this country has zero musical taste.

Mainly because of those very chavs.