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Originally Posted by garinda
Those are the very people able to make real comparissons, because they experienced the education system in the past, and their children/grandchildren are experiencing it now.
Basic common sense.
Did they teach you nothing in school?
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Anything but first hand experience is irrelevant in this context though, *every* person in the country has been through the education system and therefore there are over 60 million second hand accounts.
You are saying that people can make a fair comparison as they have been in the education system themselves and then have had children/grandchildren who have been through it as well, however if you reverse that I have parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends and work colleagues that have all been through the education system and would probably give a more honest account of their experiences (children and grandchild have the vested interest of not telling *you* anything that might let you down) and yet it would still be foolish to think that a fair comparison can be made from subjective recollections from decades ago.
Plus there is the fact that everyone has a personal attachment to their own particular education system as it has a huge input on ones personality - this leads to subjective debate rather than objective debate and subjective debate is only ever won on numbers - meaning here on AccyWeb it will always be "better back in my day"...