Lionnoisy, Australia has an education system that produced 10
nobel prize winners.
There are many people who made inventions or discoveries or
contributing to
mankind.Yes i agree Nobel Prize is important.But I am doubt if
it is fair.
SG so far has
not produced one Nobel prize winner.
But it dunt
mean SG is poor in sciences or other aspects.
Since u talk about Oz.Can u explain to me why Oz took 10
years
to upgrade the APC M--113?ST Eng already put the M113 in the the
products list many years ago.I think u know they have a strong
car assembly industry.But assembly and upgrading is 2 total
different
things.U give a car assembly line to third world
country,train the people
and supervise them eith strict QC .I think they can assembly car
as
good as anyone.
look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariff_Bongso
Prof
Ariff Bongso
Do Noble prize
is color blind or language blind or citizenship
blind?
Take GAO XINGJIAN
or
高行健 as example.
He abandoned his home country (the better term is exiled)
in 1987 and became French citizen in 1997!!
I dunt know why so many Chinese so happy when a French citizen
won a Noble prize.Literature is without border,so to say!!
Very few Chinese know his name before he was awarded Noble.
I dunt know how much his presence in Paris and his
works
translated to French BEFORE he was awarded contributing to
his nomination and finall awarded!!
Did the Noble committee want to show they support democracy in
PRC!!
Born in 1940 in Jiangxi province in eastern China, he studied in
state schools, earned a university degree in French in Beijing, and
embarked on a life of letters. Choosing exile in 1987, he settled in Paris, where he
completed Soul Mountain two years later. In 1992 he was
named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French
government. He is a playwright and painter as well as a fiction
writer and critic.
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=529
http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/2000a.html
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E8%A1%8C%E5%81%A5
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I do agree with Sg Ty that the following also happen in SG,
as well as in other places.But the question is how serious it
is?
Dirty talk: Schools swamped by perverts
By Bruce McDougall
November 10, 2008 12:00am
SCHOOL teachers are
being accused of sexually assaulting students or entering
inappropriate sexual relationships with them at a rate of almost
one a week.
Sexual allegations have been made against teachers 86 times over
the last 2½ years - about a quarter of them in government primary
schools, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.
Poll:
Have you experienced inappropriate behaviour by a teacher?
But the data obtained under Freedom of Information also suggests
some teachers are being unfairly targeted by unfounded accusations
and facing career damage as a result.
Just three teachers in the period were convicted of criminal
charges and one has been jailed.
Seduced student: Lesbian teacher found guilty
In another 10 cases teachers either resigned or retired, were
put through "remedial action" or had their casual teaching
authority withdrawn because some truth was found in the claims
against them. In dozens of other cases no evidence of misconduct
could be found................
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I shake my head when Victoria Education Minister said it is
fine
that a primary school Princiapl had allowed a nude child
photographer
scouting for nude telaents in her school compound.
I salute the openness of oz !!
