Posted on 08/11/2024 7:35:17 AM PDT by hardspunned
The public schools have been burnt toast for years—most teachers are brain dead.
My favorite example was a high school graduation of one of my wife’s nieces.
The ceremony was conducted to a full auditorium—hundreds of spectators—parents and other relatives.
One of the teachers introduces the class valedictorian and indicates that the student had written the speech all by herself.
The student started the speech:
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;”
etc etc etc....
I did a face palm to my wife and she started laughing and said “don’t say anything, please”....
Lol.
“ Read Laura Ingalls Wilder books”
Sorry. Her books are now banned from schools.
Qhustion 3 under grammar.
“What is a “personal pronoun?”
Today’s “correct” answer would be “whatever I want”.
Also, since 2+2 can equal 5 or 3 or whatever, the correct answer to those math questions today would be “this is racist”.
What’s “kalsomining”?
CHECK
8th graders then were better prepared
Indeed some wonder how the founding fathers in their 20’s and 30’s were wise enough to write the Constitution.
Those who went to college received a liberal arts education grounded in the Great Books, Latin and Greek. Those who studied for the ministry, such as Madison, learned Hebrew so that they could read the Old Testament in the original.
Today you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of colleges with that kind of rigorous liberal arts education.
Today you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of colleges with that kind of rigorous liberal arts education.
Agree that was my point not many wordsmiths like William F. Buckley around today.
As I read through the exam, I could just feel the chains being put on my brothers, see them being forced to work in the cotton fields in the hot sun, and hear the crack of the overseer’s whip! This test was racist, racist, RACIST!!
Uh, I knew who most of the inventors were... and most of the geography. Still, I would have gotten a C-.
Yeah, I know what you mean and no I phone to reach for.
I only saw one actual typo -- endeavor, misspelled "eneeavor." But some of the place names like Servia and Roumania and other oddities were considered proper at the time. I was confused by the comma after Magnetic in the list of inventions. Magnetic what? Did they mean magnetism? If so, that inventor was Faraday.
To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business.
to enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts in writing.
to improve, by reading, his morals and faculties.
to understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either.
to know his rights.
to exercise with order and justice those he retains, to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates.
and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor and judgment.
and in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed.”
Thomas Jefferson: Report for University of Virginia, 1818
I also had to look up “kalsomining.” Apparently, kalsomine was a form of whitewash paint.
The gods were not amused that she was heading for the copybook.
See post 55.
I was not upset at the student.
I was angry at all the brain dead teachers who had no clue what was going on....
The valedictorian played them....
Oops, on re-reading I saw another typo — dodr instead of door in the word problem about kalsomining a room! I must have been distracted by kalsomining!
Understood! It’s appalling that no one caught it.
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