Originally Posted by MonetFan
Originally Posted by JonLaw
Originally Posted by MonetFan
Originally Posted by chris1234
In fact most of the thread that I've read so far is also kind of over the top, to me


Yikes is what I am thinking while reading this thread myself. And perhaps I shouldn't resurrect this thread since it is on the second page, but I am quite appalled at some of the things here.

Arms races are all about WINNING!

Appallation is a natural human response to certain aspects of WINNING!


Perhaps for those for whom "winning" is a zero sum game. For tennis? Sure. For education? Doesn't have to be, and I, at least, don't see why it has become such.

Because Harvard only accepts a certain number of students every year.

The rest of the student population is relegated to the dark and musty underplaces where they have to wear an inverted scarlet H for the rest of their lives.