[Piwoslaw]

Re education: This is the same trend that is going on in many countries, and what many call "Americanisation". Poland's schooling system was reformed a while back and when the first wave of "newly schooled" teenagers hit the universities, those had to lower their level of education. Today's highschool graduates finish their education more or less where I was 2-3 years before graduating. On the other hand, I can't really compare, since I was graded on a scale of 1 (worst) to 6 (best) for most of my life, while many kids either get a worthless essay written about them (as in A Jnr's case) or they are graded with something similarly neutral and meaningless. How am I supposed to know if a butterfly is better or worse than a flower? Unfortunately that scale doesn't start with pile o' $hit...