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southern   
2 May 2008
News / Polish "brainbox" comes back to Poland from the UK for a better education [77]

if you had benefited from an education that demanded more than repetition

I was benefited by an education that demanded both repetition and abstract thinking.This is the classic form of academic education.
I think that critical thinking issues are used by those who fail repeatedely in exams because they do not have the zeal or the ability to learn.So they attribute their failure to lack of demands regarding critical thinking.I tell you one thing.If you ask these persons who complain about critical thinking issues to face cquestions demanding critical thinking they will fail miserably again and will attribute their failure to lack of a specific source o material to learn.

The right solution is the balanced one.Memorization and critical thinking.They can coexist.The one does not exclude the other.In real word how many times are we asked to come up with data immediately from memory and how many times are we asked to produce critical thinking too?Both appear in same extent.

As far as it concerns the polish way of building arguments,I have noticed that Poles in the forum tend to build very strong and inspired arguments which may be distant from common arguments but show that they have understood the concepts right.

The English tend to build arguments based more on common sense than on inspiration and based definetely more on personal feelings than on written data.

So Poles tend to use a lot of data(maybe result of their academic education) while English tend to use more personal approaches(maybe due to a more free education) which always focus on common sense.
southern   
2 May 2008
News / Polish "brainbox" comes back to Poland from the UK for a better education [77]

a good education is not about memorisation.

Can you tell me why SAT exams in USA include so much memorization?The Americans promote deliberately bad education?

a good education is about learning, understanding and being able to critically think

How can you critically think if you ignore the data on which you have to think?If you understand and cannot recall the subject what value does it have?
southern   
2 May 2008
News / Polish "brainbox" comes back to Poland from the UK for a better education [77]

based on memorising

Why is memorizing bad,my friend?

They therefore cram lots in but then forget it immediately after the exam.

Do you think students in other countries can remember more months after the exam?

This system also opens the door to massive cheating because

Massive cheatng is allowed by lack of control by teachers.If they wanted,they could control it.
southern   
2 May 2008
History / An Example of Falsifying Historical Facts and Degrading Poland [46]

She was asked to enter in to a debate with him, she refused on the grounds that entering such a debate (whether the holocaust actually occured or not) simply legitimises it.

It does not legitimize it.If you can prove him wrong,his arguments lose their value.Otherwise he can claim that he is under pogrom because nobody can cope up with his arguments.

His work is debated then (correctly) dismissed in English universities. The reason for this is that it is historically inaccurate.

So historically inaccurate works do not even get a mention in english universities?

If I argued that Hitler never invaded Poland, should my historical work be given any credence?

If you argued that Poles or Russians or English provoked the Germans to invade Poland,your historical work would have been given credence.All this interpretation is open to opinions.Many holocaust deniers may deny the existence of order by Hitler for the holocaust or whether it was sth that was systematically conducted on purpose or the Jews simply died in concentration camps due to exhaustion caused by heavy work and malnutrition as it happened to hundres of thousands of Russians and Poles who worked together in the same camps.
southern   
2 May 2008
History / An Example of Falsifying Historical Facts and Degrading Poland [46]

The holocaust is open to historical debate, it shouldn't be a dangerous area.

It is not open.In Germany,Austria and other countries if you open this discussion you may face legal consequences.It is likely we get reported as well if we open it.

People who deny it ever occurred however, are either incredibly ignorant historians (who are laughed at by their contemporaries), or neo-Nazis with an agenda.

Is this a normal scientific statement?If you doubt sth,you are ignorant or prejudiced?

Crnogorac. He is either a complete idiot or a Nazi.

He is a Slav nationalist.Neither of the two.
He should remember that Israel helped actively the Serbs in Bosnia by providing them with ammunition and a lot more.So they should not complain.
southern   
2 May 2008
Life / How to deal with rude rich Polish people? [65]

Why is it so important to deal with rude rich polish people and not to deal with rude poor polish people?You lack the usual western guts when dealing with the rich ones?
southern   
2 May 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Should Russia pay compensation claims for the families "Stalin" removed?

Russia was winner in the war.Winners do not pay compensations.Did you see US or UK paying compensations to victims of bombardments in german cities or US paying compensations to Japanese in Nagashaki and Hiroshima?
southern   
1 May 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Well lets see Germany has paid for what they did in WW2

Germany has paid.Ha,ha,ha,ha.What exactly have they paid and who has paid more?West or East Germany?
southern   
1 May 2008
Travel / Krakow going down the toilet! [184]

prince Charles visit Kraków few days ago

Make the busturds eat and drink what they vomiited out and ****ed.

Royal vomit and **** must be a pleasure.
southern   
1 May 2008
History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

almost 15 years between death of Ioann IV and Polish invasion.....

Yes,but his spirit continued to rule.
southern   
1 May 2008
Travel / Krakow going down the toilet! [184]

whereas women usually find cheap male prostitutes in places like Jamaica.

So they travel to Jamaica from Great Britain for a hen's party?
southern   
30 Apr 2008
Life / Poles' tolerance towards other Races [190]

Germany, for example, is one of many European Union countries that doesn't allow Poles to work

It is short sighted policy,the Germans will see the consequences if they continue to rely exclusively on their own and turkish labor.

Today we see 20 million less Russians than in 1991 because life expectancy in Russia has dropped to 58 years for men.2 million less Poles in Poland who have immigrated.10 million less Ukrainians(from 58 million to 48 million) in Ukraine.Hundreds of thousands of Serbs less because of the war.

All this implies that there is serious reduction in number of slavic folks.In my opinion what Europe needs is an increase of slavic population at least to pre-1991 levels and even more.Slavic countries have to increase the birth rates to prevent the invasion of non-whites who inevitably will come to fill in the gaps.
southern   
30 Apr 2008
UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]

Poles are very popular in Greece.They work hard,have built some nice churches and are the best in technical jobs.Employers prefer to lose the greek or albanian employee than the Pole.The Poles are indespensable.

There are also no crimes reported done by Poles contrary to Albanians(more than 60% of prisoners) who have intruded almost 30% of houses and robbed banks,shops,killed etc.Russian mafia is also dangerous with many killings but they regard almost exclusively other Russians,so they do not bother the average citizen as well.

So Poles are well respected,popular and everyone likes them.They have their newspapers,organizations and are very civilized.They tend to drink a lot but this happens only on weekends,so sometimes they are drunk on Monday but employers know that and they forgive them.They do not bother anyone when they drink,they are not loud or obnoxious.

It would be a pleasure if there were more polish immigrants(now about 50000 I think) and less Albanians.Polish immigration and labor force of any kind is always welcome.
southern   
30 Apr 2008
News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]

usually they removed it (or change for a Canadian one) on a flight to Europe.

It is according to US guidelines to american travellers.

In my opinion a slavic president(of polish,russian or whatever origin) would be a better solution for USA.
southern   
29 Apr 2008
News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]

I just searched a bit.It seems the subject is interesting for others too.There is open question in wiki about the actual Obama's LSAT scores which has not been answered yet.He has also been asked this question on his blog.I guess nothing will be released before elections.(the same regarding Hillary's scores).

My personal opinion:Bill Clinton is very smart,I can recognize that.Hillary is not outstandingly smart,maybe she has an IQ of 120.Obama stands a bit lower let's say about 115.Anyway this is my impression.I will see if I am right in case their actual scores will be reported.
southern   
29 Apr 2008
News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]

of Harvard Law School. They accept no one based on affirmative action.

Are you sure?I would be surprised if it were really like that.Anyway I will try to search.(so Yale law school picks the absolute cream of the top as well or is it inferior?).
southern   
29 Apr 2008
News / What do Polish friends think of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? [226]

Both Cinton and Obama, in my opinion, are personally very, very smart.

I doubt about that.I bet Obama passed exams into university through affirmative action although I do not know it.I make an assumption.
As for Clinton,well,well...
southern   
29 Apr 2008
Life / Poles' tolerance towards other Races [190]

Most turks still live in Ghettos, in so called parallel societies with barely any contact to Germans...hence the immense language problems of many of their offspring.
But also because of the unwillingness of many Germans to just accept them.

Right.At least the Germans have the guts to admit it.
southern   
29 Apr 2008
Life / Poles' tolerance towards other Races [190]

I wonder why there are not more Germans smoking nargiles in their yards or in cafes.
You mean your cousins mixed with Skandinavians?