Quote Originally Posted by Buleste View Post
@ Harrison. You're showing your age. And mine. Nowadays as plugs have to be formed plastic (Due to EU regulations)so basic Electrics such as changing a plug are no longer taught in schools so the latest generation of kids may be able to hack into the MOD or NHS they can no longer change a fuse or attatch a plug they just buy a new appliance or call out a sparky.
Really? When I was in school about 5 years or so ago, it was still taught then as part of the 4th form physics. Mind you that course has been changed completely a few years back. Everything relates to the environment now.

Going off-topic for a minute, I was shown an answer that a pupil had given to a question on global warming (one of the few 'free-form' questions nowadays where you can write a few paragraphs rather than one word answers). It seemed to answer the question pretty well, and backed up his thinking with sound scientific reasons, so I said that it was an 'A' or 'B' grade answer. When I was shown the marks though, he got a mark for quality of written communications (the grammar quality) and nothing else, because he'd written from the viewpoint that global warming was not caused by man (but still had answered the question quite legitimately in my opinion). According to the mark scheme there is no room for debate or alternative viewpoints anymore, the kids just get brainwashed into believing what the government wants them to. No wonder people are complaining the kids of today are thick, when anyone showing enough intelligence to come up with and backup a viewpoint that's a little bit different is shot down.

Don't think for yourselves, we're going to tell you what to believe.