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"Andrew Cooke" <andrew@andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> That's an impressively small-minded post from Australia.  Following this
> thread I had assumed - from the arrogant assumption that the poster's
> cultural intuition was sufficient to dismiss the education system in
> another country - that the posts were from the US.  But no...
> Congratulations!

May I arrogantly assume that it was your arrogant assumption that led
to the above conclusion that there was such an arrogant assumption? Or
was it your cultural intuition?

In any case, I didn't mean to dismiss Austria's education system with
my cultural intuition. The original poster (Andreas) somehow mentioned
his school, seemingly out of context, which led to a separate
discussion as to whether it is desirable.


Dan.