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发表于 2015-3-17 21:05:29
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I do think the British Education system is a good system even though when I was studying in HK, I hated it so much. Being older makes me look at things differently. Let me tangent off a bit and tell you my view of the British system and the current North American system.
British system - in general, you can simple assume students from that system will have some basic knowledge. However, students from that systems lack creativity. They can solve very difficult problems but if you give them an open ended problem, they may have no clue what to do. (I am talking about the current time not the time of Newton).
NA system - the top students really excel. Their creativity, ingenuity are remarkable. But an average student from this system is way weaker than an average student from the British system.
A combination of the two systems will be best but it will never happen. But if you want me to choose one, I will say go for the British system. To me, NA system is good for about 5 to 10 percent of students only.
Around Newton's time, I think the French scientists and the "Germans" (I don't know what they are called then) were also good. I was told by some of my friends that Newton may have caused the delay of some scientific advancements during that period of time because he dominates everything and rejected or punished his competitions. Overall, to me, he had lots of achievements and he had also done quite a bit of damage to the scientific world.
As for myself, in science, I like Galileo, Gauss, Laplace and Einstein. In history, I basically admired the First Emperor of China (Qin), Genghis Khan and Octavius Augustus because they are brilliant leaders (whether you like their policies or not is a different story).
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