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Keeping Kids Stupid: The Intellectual Lynching of Jay Bennish
http://artvoice.com/ ^
| march 9th 2006
| Michael I. Niman
Posted on 03/09/2006 11:57:18 AM PST by bubbabuddha
One of the biggest problems confronting higher education is the fact that most students entering colleges and universities lack basic social science skills and knowledge. In a recent survey of college students in Buffalo, for example, almost half did not know who George Pataki is. Eighty percent had no idea, correct or incorrect, as to what communism is. Nearly the same number of students couldnt define capitalism. For whatever reason, social science education in America has collapsed at the high school level. For a democracy that relies on an informed electorate, such ignorance is toxic.
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I'm not really a fan of this guy, but I'm bored and tired of everyone and their mother mellow dramatizing this guy like he's some kind of evil monster who's out to steal our children, I'm sure there are more important things to be discussed but I figure this could help put a nail into this stories coffin.
To: bubbabuddha
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posted on
03/09/2006 11:58:05 AM PST
by
Borges
To: bubbabuddha
Since Mar-08-2006 eh?
I'll give you the BOTD, but I'm afraid others here may not.
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posted on
03/09/2006 11:59:27 AM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(No animals were harmed during the creation of this post.)
To: Borges
How can you intellectually lynch someone without an intellect. Good grief what is "human geography?" The man is a moron.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:00:11 PM PST
by
tigtog
To: bubbabuddha
Nice of you to sign up yesterday to let us know how bored you are with this topic.
Bennish is a turd and should be fired. There, now that wasn't so boring was it?
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:00:19 PM PST
by
fizziwig
(Democrats: so far off the path, so incredibly vicious, so sadly pathetic.)
To: bubbabuddha
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:00:19 PM PST
by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
To: Andy from Beaverton
Did you note the similarity between Bennish and Mr. Garrison?
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:01:12 PM PST
by
tigtog
To: bubbabuddha
I heard a recent inquiry found that most Americans thought the First Amendment was the right to own a pet. Or the right to drive a car.
To: bubbabuddha
Wonder how long this teacher would last if parents had school choice...
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:01:49 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: bubbabuddha
Curious if all the defenders would be saying the same thing if he had been using Conservative talking points. Given the recent conduct of the Hysteric Left at Harvard, pretty obvious they would not. Political Indoctrination, even when you agree with it, is complete improper in a Classroom. Funny how the same people who push Hate Speech Codes NOW want to pretend they are defenders of Free Thought.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:02:38 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Why yes, yes it IS sarcasam!)
To: bubbabuddha
"but I'm bored and tired of everyone and their mother mellow dramatizing this guy"
Why are you bringing my mother into this?
IBTZ
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:03:04 PM PST
by
DocRock
To: bubbabuddha
Bennish is the poster boy for what is wrong with government schools and why we need vouchers.
Oh, and you are a troll.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:03:16 PM PST
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: bubbabuddha
My mental-mapping tells me... that you will soon leave this cultural landscape.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:03:52 PM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: Republicus2001
I heard a recent inquiry found that most Americans thought the First Amendment was the right to own a pet. Or the right to drive a car.
Dumbasses!
Don't they know that the correct answer is "The one before the second amendment".
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:03:52 PM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(No animals were harmed during the creation of this post.)
To: bubbabuddha
"Art Voice"??
B*tch, please. IB4TZ.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:04:11 PM PST
by
LongElegantLegs
(Going armed to the terror of the public.)
To: bubbabuddha
To an extent, I agree with you. However, this teacher is FAR from uniqueand that point has to be hammered home. This is my thirteenth year teaching in public schools and guys/gals like him are everywhere.
The shock expressed in reaction to his rant disturbed me only because it shows how unaware the public is of what is being "taught" in taxpayer funded schools.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:04:15 PM PST
by
Scarchin
(www.classdismissedblog.com.)
To: darkwing104
psssst... over here!
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:04:35 PM PST
by
DocRock
To: Borges
Thanks. I got tired of just gazing at all the interesting and informative posts and decided to take part. It's kind of hard not to voice an opinion.
To: bubbabuddha
well at least you are tip toing. Remember you are new, and we are watching you VERY carefully. I am already suspicious but a few more comments like that from a new commer and you will become history in FR.
Having said that, welcome.
To: bubbabuddha
From the posted article:
"Bennish attempted to stimulate a discussion by critiquing and responding to Bushs State of the Union address. He put the U.S. into context by describing us as probably the most violent nation on planet earth. By almost every measure this is true. We have the highest incarceration rate, one of the highest murder and domestic violence rates, among the worlds most violent entertainment, and we have gotten ourselves into more wars than any other nation in modern history."
The teacher, the writer of the above, and anyone else who thinks this puts "the U.S. into context" are retards.
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posted on
03/09/2006 12:06:53 PM PST
by
zook
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