Posted on 05/27/2013 10:30:46 AM PDT by LibWhacker
If you think TruthorFiction.com said the same thing Snopes did, you have a serious reading comprehension problem.
What our Founders trained for was at the time a bachelors in philosophy where it was required that they know Greek and Latin before they entered college.
Just because I was curious I went to the Harvard website to see if they still had some form of the old scholastic training our Founders went through and I did find something close - the PhD. program in philology (which requires Greek and Latin), without the moral training aspect. So, if our Founders essentially had a PhD according to today's standards, what does that say about today's PhDs?
How does TruthorFiction.com compare to snopes?
If you had the texts, you’d change your mind. They’re stupid easy....and like learning your ABC’s.
Snopes is once again exercising its Inner Libtard.
IIRC, the exam was given once and the private tutor never used it again.
Steve Jobs delenda est.
/johnny
I'm thinking you might have a reading comprehension problem yourself.
Please do not "REPLY" to my comments unless you are actually going to make a "reply" instead of a "Lookie here dummie"
Seen it many times, it’s a fake. Nobody in Salina KS is that smart.
8th. grade test hoax
I did this because of how many times over the years on Free Republic this was posted and in many emails I've received over time.
I couldn't visit all the sites that referenced this.
Up until the 1900 it was said that the accumulation of knowledge doubled
every century.
At the end of World War 2 every 25 years.
Today – well anywhere from 1 to 1.5 years to – Nanotechnology they say
every 2 years – Clinical knowledge every 18 months.
And IBM predicts that in the next couple of years, information will
double every 11 hours!
re: “If you think TruthorFiction.com said the same thing Snopes did, you have a serious reading comprehension problem.”
That is NOT what Skydancer said. All he said was he got his info from TruthorFiction.com, not Snopes.com.
The correct answer is "whatever the market value is" because nobody would pay $20/m in 1895 -- or even in 1995. Okay, the cost of a thing may be defined to be whatever sellers are asking. But if one seller is a fool and is asking a trillion dollars, that's not the actual cost for any buyer as the competition will make sure of it. HAHAHAHA... I AM smart after all! ;-)
http://www.salina.com/1895test/
dropzone06-12-2003, 04:39 PM
On another message board somebody posted that 1895 eighth-grade test from Salina, KS. I dutifully posted the Snopes link debunking it but didn’t reread the debunking. Now people are saying that it doesn’t debunk it, though it is clearly labeled “FALSE.” I read the link and the parts questioning the provenance of the test have been expunged and I look like an idiot for trusting Snopes! Even an actor—AN ACTOR!—is laughing at me. Oh, the shame of it!
Until today I trusted Snopes more than my wife, my mother, and my pastor combined. Has my trust been misplaced? Has Snopes proved to be yet another idol with feet of clay? WTF? And why hasn’t Cecil weighed in on this, if he’s so smart?
Fuming :mad: ,
drop
Boyo Jim06-12-2003, 04:47 PM
I’ll take “What the hell are you talking about for 100, Alex”.
Darwin’s Finch06-12-2003, 04:49 PM
Well, if this article (http://www.saljournal.com/sub/1895/) can be believed (and I don’t see any reason why it can’t be), the test would seem to be the real deal. What Snopes does debunk is the idea that the difficulty of the test demonstrates a decline in the quality of education, not whether the test itself is real.
Lookie here, smart guy, your awesome brilliance must be causing too much glare on the computer screen for you to discern that they most certainly did NOT ‘basically’ say the same thing.
Truthorfiction.com verified that the document was real, but couldn’t verify that it was a test for 8th graders. Meanwhile, Snopes tied themselves in knots attacking the idea of even questioning such a thing.
That's interesting, because this is what Skydancer said:
I did a web search and there were others who’ve said the same thing. This posting was from TruthorFiction.com not snopes.
Try thinking outside the box.
Snopes: “FALSE”, followed by a diatribe about how it doesn’t matter if it’s true, with nothing to back up the ‘false’ assertion.
TOF: “TruthOrFiction.com has listed this eRumor as unproven, even though there is a source for it and we have obtained an actual copy of the exam. There has not been sufficient proof given, in our view, that the exam is what is claimed.”
If ‘thinking outside the box’ means that those two positions are ‘the same thing’ or even ‘basically the same’, I’d posit that the box you’re thinking outside of is there for a very good reason and you’d probably do well to venture back on inside it.
I took a final in graduate grammar where there was only one question. What is a noun. I wrote for two hours.
The problem with arguing with a moron is that the moron thinks they’re arguing with a moron. Go do some searching yourself. Have a nice Memorial Day.
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