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Originally Posted by wolverinewolfweiselpigeon
Blade Runner isn't very good, especially compared to the book. Holding out hope for 2049 whenever I get around to seeing it, but damn I can barely sit through Blade Runner it's so dry and boring. And the endings are stupid. Both versions.
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I'm going to put this down to your current PTSD. Otherwise we would no longer be friends.
So, for the Irish school system, at least when I was going to school: twice during the time you were there you had to sit an exam, one was after I think three years there (think the total was five, not entirely sure now, it was over forty years ago) and was called the Intermediate Exam, or Inter. This didn't really impact on anything, but it might (might) mean you would get put into a class with like people, in other words, do well in most of the tests and you might end up with similar brainiacs, fail badly and you'd be in the lowest class. You could get pass, fail or honour, in ascending order. At the end of your school life you sat the Leaving Cert, and that was pretty much the same, but was supposed to me more important, as your teachers told you the results would be taken into account at any potential job interview.
They weren't, for mine, but I only had one job my entire working life, so maybe it was different for other employers, I don't know.
We were always taught NOT to guess. If you don't know, make a stab at it if you have an idea but do NOT bull**** your way through. I've already related the story of the guy and the Statutes of Kilkenny question, which really illustrates how someone who knew nothing about the question could blag his way through, but it was not encouraged. Our schools (dunno about yours) encouraged asking questions, challenging things you were told and most of all admitting you did not understand something, which the teacher would then explain to you, after class if necessary.
We had/have no points system. I don't know about college, I never went, but I think maybe you have to have so many honours in your Leaving, but other than that, no. I think in general our education system is not the worst, from what I hear from you guys. It's also not free: we had to pay for all our books, though the actual teaching was free.