haha
cool, i've never seeen this thread yet..
from a Canadian standpoint, I think the quest for knowledge is declining as well. WHY? # of reasons. I blame MTV the most. lousy americans...*j/k
Also with education, the public school quality here is decreasing and it's slowly seeking private funds to help alleviate the pressure; b/c there's alot of new immigrants coming into the Toronto and surrounding area.
I especially hate the Engineering Philosophy here. Here's the formula, input, output, done. Like Sayo said, there's no thought into why that happens.
Also with the tests, argh. 4/6 of my classes use Multiple Choice tests. The best way to test, (but most expensive , so no chance of it happening) like my PHYS prof. said: "He'll seat you down in a room for an hour, and drill you with questions upon questions seeing how much you know." Another thing. MC sucks b/c people complain that they got the entire thought process correct, but since they bubbled in the wrong answer on the Scantron sheet, or mistyped a figure in the calculator, NO MARKS. But that's a story for another day.