Compulsory education

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:46 am

gmc;937747 wrote: College/university sports are no big deal in the UK unlike the US so there's no financial incentive. Nobody is interested in watching college sports. Further education establishments want be known for their academic excellence not their sporting. Why would you need to romanticise education? It gives people a start in life and is free up to a point. where you go from there is up to you. It's engineering and science and learning per se we need to romanticise and attract people to, not sports. Most of the major scientific developments have come from countries where education and scientific research was valued for it's own sake. business and the economy benefits from that but most is not capable of predicting what research will lead to any benefit. Lasers, for example, as used daily in epos systems in supermarkets, were invented by scientists following their curiosity not ones looking for new products. Nobody "invented" electronic scanning it was an application of a discovery. Same with computers and TV etc etc.

I understand all of that...

My emphasis was more so flip flopped than what you're thinking of...I'm of the thought that football in the UK is followed predominantly by the working class and thought that it could serve as an incentive to those who make it a dream of theirs to play sports...Meaning education would be romanticized not the sports...It's to my knowledge that most kids within the UK dream of playing football/soccer and I had thought it would be extrapolation to have the success of education mandatory in the prolongment of football/soccer enthusiasm...

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:48 am

K.Snyder;937752 wrote: I understand all of that...

My emphasis was more so flip flopped than what you're thinking of...I'm of the thought that football in the UK is followed predominantly by the working class and thought that it could serve as an incentive to those who make it a dream of theirs to play sports...Meaning education would be romanticized not the sports...It's to my knowledge that most kids within the UK dream of playing football/soccer and I had thought it would be extrapolation to have the success of education mandatory in the prolongment of football/soccer enthusiasm...

It just wouldn't work. There is just not any interest or money in university/college sports.