Deuce, you were lucky. The school I was at (down here in PA) was an absolute dive. I was shocked when I left to discover just how little I actually knew -- and I was counted a good student.
There are enough schools and teachers involved that I have a hard time believing it's luck. In elementary school, I had two bad teachers out of a total of about a dozen. In high school, I had no bad teachers, out of a dozen or more across many subjects. In university, I've had three mediocre profs, and no bad ones, out of on the order of two dozen. That's three completely unrelated educational institutions where the faculty by and large was of high quality and cared about the students.
Either you un-lucked-out and got a horrible school, or there really is something different between the Canadian and American educational systems, because I have enough data points to conclude that the schools up here are pretty good (not perfect, but good).
Deuce, you were lucky. The school I was at (down here in PA) was an absolute dive. I was shocked when I left to discover just how little I actually knew -- and I was counted a good student.
There are enough schools and teachers involved that I have a hard time believing it's luck. In elementary school, I had two bad teachers out of a total of about a dozen. In high school, I had no bad teachers, out of a dozen or more across many subjects. In university, I've had three mediocre profs, and no bad ones, out of on the order of two dozen. That's three completely unrelated educational institutions where the faculty by and large was of high quality and cared about the students.
Either you un-lucked-out and got a horrible school, or there really is something different between the Canadian and American educational systems, because I have enough data points to conclude that the schools up here are pretty good (not perfect, but good).