Comments on: Romanian Schools: First Semester Report http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/01/29/romanian-schools-first-semester-report/ Capital living in Bucharest, Romania Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:44:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: cosmin http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/01/29/romanian-schools-first-semester-report/#comment-9873 cosmin Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:01:25 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2792#comment-9873 yep craig i think you gave a fair description of things. Regarding math is just like you said. One only has to check this:http://www.imo-official.org/ Yep Romania founded it and i think on average we won the most until now. So your number one will be crunching numbers and cutting corners when needed with an astonishing ease. Plus a humongous general knowledge package from other classes comes as a bonus. yep craig i think you gave a fair description of things. Regarding math is just like you said. One only has to check this:http://www.imo-official.org/

Yep Romania founded it and i think on average we won the most until now. So your number one will be crunching numbers and cutting corners when needed with an astonishing ease. Plus a humongous general knowledge package from other classes comes as a bonus.

]]> By: Parmalat http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/01/29/romanian-schools-first-semester-report/#comment-9634 Parmalat Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:55:35 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2792#comment-9634 I don't bad mouth the US educational system, actually it's one of the few US-made things that I admire. I believe that - as opposed to the Romanian educational system - once you go through the US educational system, you are on your own feet meaning that you know how to do SOMETHING and you can get hired and add value to an organization. That's not the situation in Romania: in 70% of the cases you go through all the levels and you wake up knowing how to do NOTHING. For example I graduated the ASE (Academy of Economic Science) and I hold a License degree (similar to Associates + Bachelors, 4 years of study) in business administration. The course of study was conducted in English [which was really wonderful, cause I could just copy/paste whatever project I had to make :D ]. But if you ask me today what have I learn from this entire educational process, I'm gonna be honest with you: I learned shit. Today I can earn my living because around 7 years ago, while I was browsing US sites for some sort of "work at home" idea that I could sell to Romanians without breaking the law - I came across one of those forex ads which were a lot fewer back then than they are today. So it was all my f*ckin work and the 17 years which I lost in school did not help me at all. If it weren't for that forex ad, I would be in jail today cause I'm not the type to break my back doing constructions work in Italy. Obviously this is not the case with the US educational system. I doubt there exists any university graduate in the US unable to make a decent living. I don’t bad mouth the US educational system, actually it’s one of the few US-made things that I admire.

I believe that – as opposed to the Romanian educational system – once you go through the US educational system, you are on your own feet meaning that you know how to do SOMETHING and you can get hired and add value to an organization.

That’s not the situation in Romania: in 70% of the cases you go through all the levels and you wake up knowing how to do NOTHING.

For example I graduated the ASE (Academy of Economic Science) and I hold a License degree (similar to Associates + Bachelors, 4 years of study) in business administration. The course of study was conducted in English [which was really wonderful, cause I could just copy/paste whatever project I had to make :D ].

But if you ask me today what have I learn from this entire educational process, I’m gonna be honest with you: I learned shit.

Today I can earn my living because around 7 years ago, while I was browsing US sites for some sort of “work at home” idea that I could sell to Romanians without breaking the law – I came across one of those forex ads which were a lot fewer back then than they are today.

So it was all my f*ckin work and the 17 years which I lost in school did not help me at all. If it weren’t for that forex ad, I would be in jail today cause I’m not the type to break my back doing constructions work in Italy.

Obviously this is not the case with the US educational system. I doubt there exists any university graduate in the US unable to make a decent living.

]]> By: Marcy http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/01/29/romanian-schools-first-semester-report/#comment-9628 Marcy Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:12:01 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2792#comment-9628 People bad mouth the US educational system far too often. I went to a pretty good US high school. I was given plenty of homework that kept me up until 1 AM, at times. I didn't have difficulty placing in the required college classes. But then again, my state is ranked #1 when it comes to high school and college grads. As far as Romanian education is concerned, I'm not too fond of it. Rote learning has its advantages, but I think in the end, it's not advantageous because learning something without understanding it will not last you very long. I did grade 5 in Romania. What's up with the beatings? Seriously, these teachers need serious disciplinary action. People bad mouth the US educational system far too often.
I went to a pretty good US high school. I was given plenty of homework that kept me up until 1 AM, at times.
I didn’t have difficulty placing in the required college classes.
But then again, my state is ranked #1 when it comes to high school and college grads.
As far as Romanian education is concerned, I’m not too fond of it. Rote learning has its advantages, but I think in the end, it’s not advantageous because learning something without understanding it will not last you very long. I did grade 5 in Romania. What’s up with the beatings? Seriously, these teachers need serious disciplinary action.

]]> By: Bucharest Life | Strike! Why we’re right behind Romania’s teachers | Bucharest http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/01/29/romanian-schools-first-semester-report/#comment-2785 Bucharest Life | Strike! Why we’re right behind Romania’s teachers | Bucharest Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:30:25 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2792#comment-2785 [...] have in the recent past written at some length about what we think of Romania’s education system (or, rather, about the tiny part of it we have any experience of), and to save any of you from [...] [...] have in the recent past written at some length about what we think of Romania’s education system (or, rather, about the tiny part of it we have any experience of), and to save any of you from [...]

]]> By: Bucharest Life | Hands off RATB | Bucharest http://www.bucharestlife.net/2010/01/29/romanian-schools-first-semester-report/#comment-2675 Bucharest Life | Hands off RATB | Bucharest Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:40:51 +0000 http://www.bucharestlife.net/?p=2792#comment-2675 [...] Schools are another decent public service, and we’ve discussed just why we think so before. [...] [...] Schools are another decent public service, and we’ve discussed just why we think so before. [...]

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