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To: 9YearLurker

Good idea. You wouldn’t believe how many supposedly educated people have never heard of the Great White Whale.


6 posted on 08/24/2015 9:25:25 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Night Hides Not

The average reading level of college-assigned summer reading is the 7th grade:

http://pioneerinstitute.org/blog/how-colleges-are-dumbing-our-kids-down-too-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

Probably not coincidentally the same average reading level of college freshmen:

http://campusreform.org/?ID=6174

Yikes!


8 posted on 08/24/2015 9:29:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Night Hides Not
You wouldn’t believe how many supposedly educated people have never heard of the Great White Whale.

Sounds racist.

10 posted on 08/24/2015 9:41:34 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Night Hides Not

“You wouldn’t believe how many supposedly educated people have never heard of the Great White Whale.”

Isn’t that where all those FABULOUS Broadway shows are? Especially the musicals? I love all the singing and dancing.


21 posted on 08/24/2015 10:10:50 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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