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Your league table for "important subjects".

 
 
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Reply Sun 2 Mar, 2003 12:06 pm
Muriel Spark's "Miss Jean Brodie", a larger than life teacher at a Scottish girls school said:

"Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance."

What would be your league table ? Justify the first and the last.
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Reply Sun 2 Mar, 2003 09:54 pm
The three R's first. Then advance math and art. Geography, history, and cultures next. Philosophy and religion last. That's the order of importance. Says Guru c.i.
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2003 01:37 pm
Thanks c.i.

I too would put mathematics high on the agenda because it is hopefully a culture free coherent system. I think next should come anthropology, and at the bottom we concur on religion!

Interestingly, for many years there were only two "compulsory" subjects in British schools, P.E. and Religion !
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2003 03:27 pm
First we should ensure that all the beings on this planet are cared for, and able to participate in our "sport", and then worry about the "order".
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2003 03:33 pm
O.K. then, now that that's taken care of, I would object to Jean's juxtaposition of Art and Religion.
However, I would put Art and Culture first (unlike practically all governments on this planet) since, without Art and Culture, we are nothing!
And, as appeasement, I hasten to add, what is art without mathematics (the instinctive kind)?
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Reply Mon 3 Mar, 2003 03:38 pm
Oooops! That should have read "Forum Guide" not Guru. Wink c.i.
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