[Mind's Eye] Re: are we as a global society moving forward or backward?

I think that every generation is inclined to believe that global
society is heading in the wrong direction as we see the values of our
youth eroded. Somehow despite my gloomy picture related to English
education somehow I feel that overall the past two centuries have
created a more caring western society. However this has been very much
at the expense of the third and fourth world nations whose governments
still seem to pursue power at their peoples expense often supported by
western governments who have been able to move, by investment, their
sweatshops into the developing world.

On Apr 5, 1:55 pm, the taoist shaman <bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> now MAYBE   im a  LITTLE CRAZY             but       it seams  to
> me    that the direction we are hedding ( like a stream whose path is
> directed by the mountain  as it erodes the mountain , until its path
> is eched out , and not easily  broken away from ) is in the wrong
> direction , ... why ?........ the answer is as vast as the expance of
> the void of that which is unknown <------ see anyone can sound
> politician like -------Ash wrote:
> > Not at all pessimistic Malcolm, I keep hearing depressing news about my old
> > highschool. Teachers overworked, theyve changed it from an alternative to an
> > urban school with higher student ratios. They teach using computers a lot
> > and the kids mostly slack off visiting facebook and youtube, there is a lot
> > less one-on-one contact and interaction based learning. To top it off all
> > this is because of no child left behind crap and teachers are so overworked
> > they are doing their best just to teach to the test and pass them along.
> > Someone will have to deal with it eventually while kids keep getting by on
> > as little as possible fundamental skills and perpetual remedial panaceas.
> > Not pessimist at all! They are destroying public education, and all the
> > teachers know it. :(