User talk:Philopedia

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Herodotus map
I don't know of any map that thries to include all the peoples, but here are some that show the larger groups (and if I recall correctly, the Loeb edition locates and details them as they come up; I don't recall whether or not it has any maps, though):

http://www.henry-davis.com/MAPS/Ancient%20Web%20Pages/109.html = http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/aryan/herodotus.html

Britannica: http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/art-2196

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Bios/HerodotusMap.jpg

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Dherodotus%2520map%26fr2%3Dtab-web%26fr%3Dush1-mail&w=145&h=91&imgurl=www.livius.org%2Fea-eh%2Fedges%2Fherodotus_map_s.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livius.org%2Fea-eh%2Fedges%2Fedges02.html&size=4.6kB&name=herodotus_map_s.jpg&p=herodotus+map&type=jpeg&no=5&tt=113&oid=0892986517d3b0de&ei=UTF-8 (http://www.livius.org/a/1/maps/herodotus_map.gif) -> may be used in Wik if citation is given.

http://www.paim.net/images/herodotus.jpg (from http://forums.atlantisrising.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000813.html)

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Dherodotus%2520map%26fr2%3Dtab-web%26fr%3Dush1-mail&w=876&h=272&imgurl=www.livius.org%2Fa%2F1%2Fmaps%2Fherodotus5_map.gif&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.livius.org%2Fhe-hg%2Fherodotus%2Flogos4_10.html&size=18.2kB&name=herodotus5_map.gif&p=herodotus+map&type=gif&no=15&tt=113&oid=93be27b89c5725f8&ei=UTF-8 (http://www.livius.org/a/1/maps/herodotus5_map.gif)- an uncontorted map

Kdammers 12:14, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

East End
Hi, replied at my place. Easier to keep conversations in one place. Cheers. Kbthompson 10:08, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

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Hauptschule
You wrote that you did not like the passage about the family background of the Hauptschüler. I do notlike it either and I think it should be changed. Your comment has been in place for several years now and nobody came and said the passage should stay like this. So I think you can change it now.-- 95.88.136.199 (talk) 12:40, 15 August 2010 (UTC) ___________________________________________

Hello and thank you for your comment! I see that you have not adopted a wikipedia nickname yet, but I hope you may look back here to review my response and, if you wish, to carry out a dialogue.

Thanks, as well, for reminding me of my earlier remarks and intention to make a change in the article. In the meanwhile I have had second thoughts. In many German states, the intented role of the Hauptschule, e.g., as a training place for artisians, is not being fulfilled. Instead, the Hauptschule have become a catch-all for problem cases. Just one example: the very early streamlining of children into Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium (about age 10) means that children who enter school with any type of difficency have practically no time to make a correction before they are assigned to one of the three types of middle schools. As a result, the Hauptschule are have a very high portion of children from immigrant families who, predictably, are weak in German as they use another language at home. [Note: today one entering schoolchild in three will have at least one immigrant parent]. Some of these children are quite bright and will feel underchallenged in the Hauptschule; others will suffer from problems associated with cultural misadjustment and social acceptance, not to mention unemployment, which is disproportionately high among immigrant families. All of this contributes to a syndrome of self perpetuating prejudices as featured in the article.

Finally, while I think it is possible to challenge the description in the article based on it being point of view, I feel I should defer the action of changing the text to someone who has more direct experience with the Hauptschule. On the other hand, as you wrote, my comment has been unaddressed for over a year now. So I will give the matter further thought and, perhaps, make an adjustment after all.

Philopedia (talk) 00:27, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

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