Thank Spectrum! I didn’t buy anything this Black Friday

[Streetwise]

No doubt. However for me such things occurred in real-time. Scholastically speaking in terms of attending public school, they constituted economics- not history.

Then consider that I graduated from college a dozen years before the demise of the Soviet Union.

I left school three years before the Berlin Wall came down

 

[Judge]

I left school three years before the Berlin Wall came down

Then perhaps they teach macroeconomics in your secondary schools. Just not in ours. At least not when I attended in the early 70s.

 

[Streetwise]

Then perhaps they teach macroeconomics in your secondary schools. Just not in ours. At least not when I attended in the early 70s.

Sorry I confused you again , I looked at the curriculum for history in US high schools that's what I meant it seemed to be the equivalent of what I was taught.
I did have a slightly different education as I went to a private school for the last two years can't remember anything I was taught.

 

[Judge]

I looked at the curriculum for history in US high schools that's what I meant it seemed to be the equivalent of what I was taught.

An equivalent? Not a chance, IMO. It's no secret Britain provides a better quality public school education than the US as a matter of record.

Also consider the limited and ethnocentric scope of "history" in general in US public schools. I had to take a specified history elective just to even discuss adversarial political systems. Taught in a very cursory manner which never touched on socialism's impact on consumers. Oh yeah- the course didn't really address socialism itself either. Just names and dates...

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

An equivalent? Not a chance, IMO. It's no secret Britain provides a better quality public school education than the US as a matter of record.

Also consider the limited and ethnocentric scope of "history" in general in US public schools. I had to take a specified history elective just to even discuss adversarial political systems. Taught in a very cursory manner which never touched on socialism's impact on consumers.

My impression was American schools provided a better social education, maybe I’m taking a leap...
Often a level of social respect I find in USA not the ik

 

[Judge]

My impression was American schools provided a better social education, maybe I’m taking a leap...
Often a level of social respect I find in USA not the ik

From a recent US source and perspective...though I'm not sure what you mean by "social" education.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/education-full-list

 

[Streetwise]

An equivalent? Not a chance, IMO. It's no secret Britain provides a better quality public school education than the US as a matter of record.

Also consider the limited and ethnocentric scope of "history" in general in US public schools. I had to take a specified history elective just to even discuss adversarial political systems. Taught in a very cursory manner which never touched on socialism's impact on consumers. Oh yeah- the course didn't really address socialism itself either. Just names and dates...

Oh yes I forgot about the whigs and the Tories and the Labour party in the 1920s ,didn't learn about at the adversarial politics in other countries

 

[Judge]

Oh yes I forgot about the whigs and the Tories and the Labour party in the 1920s ,didn't learn about at the adversarial politics in other countries

British Politics. That was one of my most favorite courses in political science.

Had the privilege of a great instructor, Professor Ted Tapper "on loan" from Cambridge University. But yes, I only had access to such a class at the university level.

 

[Desiree W]

I already feel anxious when I have to be in a crowded store on any other day. So I say "no thanks" to being out in the rat race full of crazed shoppers on Black Friday.