It breaks my heart to think of all the young black children who are being oppressed by black culture and the lowered expectations of white Liberals.
There's nothing more cowardly than a college administrator.
“A very large percentage of all incoming freshmen have no business being admitted to college.”
Those same freshmen have no business graduating college either - and employers know it. Their worthless degrees force employers to just hire other “preferred minorities” (Hispanics, women) in their stead.
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These black students demanding segregated housing are not the caliber of Dr. Williams or the black students he went to school with or probably who he taught when he was at George Mason. Let them segregate. Those who don’t want to segregate are undoubtedly civilized. Let chaos reign in the segregated dorms and peace and harmony in the rest.
I wonder if Dr. Williams has done a correlation between the success rates of those black students with low SATs and their graduation rate categorized by degree? I would be interested to see such analysis. I would also like to see SAT score compared to grad rates.
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I’m presently reading - skimming, I’m afraid -Peak: Secrets from the New Science of ExpertiseIt puts me in mind somewhat of
by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool (April 5, 2016)
- In Search of Excellence:
- Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H., Jr. Waterman. . . but it makes the point that
I’m wondering how this relates to the Khan Academy “flip the classroom” paradigm . . .
- although IQ makes it easy to learn stuff, high IQ can be a mixed blessing if it seduces you into thinking that you are above having to practice.
- ”Practice” which is merely doing the same thing over and over again forever will not produce excellence. E.g., Benjamin Franklin indubitably had a high IQ but - notwithstanding his ambition and his participation in chess games, including against high-level competition in Europe - he never got particularly good at chess.
- Contrariwise Franklin started out also being a less-than-stellar writer, and he practiced intensively to improve. In doing so he was creative about how he practiced, and he developed techniques which challenged himself to do everything - every individual thing - that he could identify as being a stimulant to his ability to write well. He started with a sample of excellent writing, made notes on what was said, then - after a period of time - he tried to reproduce the excellent writing. He tried converting writing from prose to poetry and back, to stimulate his vocabulary. IOW he became his own tutor.
- Real practice, in this telling, pushes the learner somewhat out of his comfort zone - and gives prompt and clear feedback.
- Real practice is about learning to do, not learning facts. Ability to do carries the requisite facts along for the ride. The converse is not true - in fact, without learning to do, exposure to facts does not lead efficiently to learning facts.
- It is extremely damaging to assume that people have innate limitations. IOW, “The soft bigotry of low expectations” ain’t so soft. Wherever you find yourself, some people will seem to be limited in their abilities, but in general they can improve. A lot. In Search of Excellence tells us that “If you aren’t trying to improve, you are getting worse."
Talk about setting the clock back 50-60 years.
All that equality their parents and grandparents fought for, just being surrendered by a bunch of whining little snowflakes.
They demand equality and then deliberately segregate themselves.
Let’s practice this.....
All the white students on campus demand segregated housing from students of color. The liberals would be peeing their pants.