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Kindle E-Book Sales Surpass Print Sales In UK
twoheadedboy writes "Book lovers are increasingly turning to e-books, and in the UK Amazon has announced it now sells more e-books than physical copies on Amazon.co.uk. Kindle books surpassed sales of hardbacks in the UK back in May 2011 at a rate of two to one and now they have leapfrogged the combined totals of both hardbacks and paperbacks."
No you've got the wrong end of the stick. I myself went through the crappiest ranked school in Hertfordshire in the 1980s and 1990s and am currently dragging my three children through one of the crappiest schools in London. I did VERY well and achieved A/B passes in everything at GCSE and A level. My children are doing well.
There is literally NOTHING AT ALL wrong with the curriculum then or now. It's broad, but extremely relevant to life in the UK and always was.
There are two problems: apathy and ranking.
The first problem - socialism has bred people who don't care and expect a lot for nothing. Most of these individuals just do not have a place in society as they have precisely no skills worth using. This is not due to education but apathy towards it. They don't give a shit about it either as they always have the state to fall back on. I experience these people daily and have done for 20 years. Having 8 children is their career path these days where they get given a £450k house to put them in.
The ranking system. People are ranked in order statistically and prevented from progressing up the ranks. You have to be the best or you don't have a chance.
It's fucked up. People need to get some realisation that if they don't or can't help themselves (bar any exceptional circumstances such as disabilities), that they should probably die hungry like the do in a lot of countries. The opportunities are ALWAYS there - they just choose the safety net every time.