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University Students Are Unable to Read a Whole Book
Breitbart ^
| 17 April 2016
| Donna Rachel Edmunds
Posted on 04/18/2016 3:18:12 PM PDT by daisy12
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To: daisy12
What do the educationists expect when they stump for getting rid of "rote" learning and penmanship, do not insist that their students read well with good subject matter, insist on teaching affective subjects like sex ed that affects the emotions rather than information that encourages the intellect.
The colleges end up with students who cannot think. The ones who are lucky are the ones whose parents made sure their children were in schools where their children were challenged correctly. They are the ones who succeed throughout school and college.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:32:05 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(When someone tells it like it is, is it the truth?)
To: daisy12
Well, to be fair, I almost never read an entire post/article on the Freerepublic. Just zip down to the comments and add my uninformed two-bits.
I read books, though.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:32:35 PM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: libertylover
When I was in college I took a course on environmental geography and the professor was a hard core conservative who was pro-oil and coal. He made hippie heads explode every lecture.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:32:44 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: daisy12
I assigned “The Oregon Trail” by Francis Parkman to some of my students. They asked me if they could just play the game and write a report about that instead.....
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:32:56 PM PDT
by
GenXteacher
(You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
To: daisy12
“nor are they able to understand complex, nuanced arguments”
Ha. Where have I seen this happening?
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:34:21 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: daisy12
I advised my daughter not to apply at a state-run university. She is better off going to a technical or private college.
To: dfwgator
got a batch of boxes from mom after she sold the house last month.
my ex from 25 years ago used to write me two long love letters a day lol.
now you text a few words, trade sex for a beer, and go to your women’s lib meeting.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:35:33 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: daisy12
“... And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn’t just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!”
-President Not Sure (Idiocracy)
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:36:35 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: daisy12
Some of the books, have parts of them ,written in the script of the time 1790 period.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:36:52 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: daisy12
I read “War and Peace” at 13 or 14...
Must have been my white privilege...
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:37:14 PM PDT
by
Popman
(Christ alone: My Cornerstone....)
To: thoughtomator
You sound just like my kids. They have had a love of reading since early on.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:38:52 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: daisy12
This is Bull-—These kids had no probem reading Harry Potter and understanding the complex plots of the same. Its more Lazy than inability to do the reading. wait til our enemies knock out the Electrical Grid or Internet—reading will be popular again.
To: thoughtomator
Ah, you, too. I trust including the Appendices.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:40:11 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
To: daisy12
Its really not an issue. If we need someone smart, that’s why we have H1b. And for US college grads, that’s why we have Starbucks.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:45:30 PM PDT
by
marron
To: daisy12
Books have white pages.
Books are racist.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:45:31 PM PDT
by
uglybiker
(nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
To: thoughtomator
I wasnt kidding. I had completed the entire Lord of the Rings series including The Hobbit in 3rd grade.Before the internet?
To: daisy12
In the current academic condition, the best education is 4 years in the Navy and a set of Harvard Classics well read.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:47:44 PM PDT
by
marron
To: thoughtomator
I wasnt kidding. I had completed the entire Lord of the Rings series including The Hobbit in 3rd grade.I was just having fun with you.
When I was in 6th grade, we had a battery of tests. They determined I was reading at the sophomore in HS level.
I remember as a kid, my parents bought me a hardbound book collection. about 16 books IIRC, that had 2 stories each.
Had them read by 4th grade.
I loved reading.
Still do.
Reading is more than just comprehending words. Its thinking, imagining...mental exercise.
Todays kids are mentally weak, undisciplined, lazy.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:50:05 PM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: uglybiker
Yeah, and black ink.
The black ink is in the minority, and is a slave to the printer.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:50:31 PM PDT
by
Scrambler Bob
(As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
To: thoughtomator
I read those How & Why science books at a very young age.
As a little kid, kid’s books didn’t do much for me. I was dreaded by the librarian for some reason.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:51:21 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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