Posted on 12/02/2006 2:20:13 PM PST by Leisler
And today they give a degree in "Communications".......................translated that means those students FINALLY learned to read and write a paragraph having failed to learn such thru the first 12 years in public school.....................Make dat phirst duzen yeers of publik skool.....
Judging by the quality of the articles written that are posted in threads here on FR, yes.
"because 30% of all PhDs in math go to women."
The response involved a cartoon of a two-legged critter, labeled "the enamine" looking up in surprise as a beaker of acid spills on him.
The next panel was a bunch of clouds and scribbles, with a zig-zag mess in one corner labeled 'movement of electrons'.
In the last panel there was a new, cuter-looking critter with a big smile on its face, next to the smashed (and empty) beaker of acid. This was labeled "no longer an enamine, now an enaniece."
Cheers!
When I walk into a classroom and it is mostly education majors, I always have a sense of dread.
Education majors are and have been for the decades I have been teaching in colleges and universities, the worst students and the least able to learn.
As the saying goes: "I have had some great and brilliant education" students, but that is maybe 10 % or less and at the K-8 range, the percentage is much lower.
see # 39. We were trying, OOH, to do it as easily on ourselves as possible, but OTOH, to do a decent grading job. If a student clearly does not have a clue, then where is the need to waste one's time on reading his/her garbage? Hence the cluemeter approach.
By the way, beyond the issue of gender the number that really jumps out is the fact that only 39% of PhD recipients are US citizens (when I got mine 20 years ago, it was close to 50%).
You'll find exact numbers for 2005 in the American Mathematical Society 2005 survey of new doctoral degrees: http://www.ams.org/employment/2005Survey-First-Reports.pdf. See the table at the top of page 236, as well as the highlights sidebar at the beginning.
For the record, I disagree with the last half of this article. Genes don't mold a child into a successful, responsible adult; raising the child with good values and motivating him or her to learn does. (But the first half where the writer describes the "public school racket" is on the mark).
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Hey, watch it. :-) I was a communications major. Newswriting is a tougher course than most people realize. Courses that involve just opening a textbook and reading it are a breeze. But, chasing someone down, talking the person into letting you interview him/her, then running around asking other people for their opinions, and finally writing and submitting a story was far more challenging.
I agree, though, that a four-year college education should be unnecessary for most majors.
You gotta rephrase that-----sounds like paparazzi work for Natl Enq or sumtin like that, not reporting......;^)
I think it was a friend of mine describing the difference between children raised at home and children shuffled off to daycare/school. The kids of her friends that were sent to daycare very young grew up to be completely different than the parents. Nothing alike. The kids of friends that stayed at home grew up more similar to their parents. Hmmm.
I think the problem with these lower income children is that they get shuffled off to daycare and take on the values of whatever the cheapest daycare worker has or they stay home, but it doesn't help because mama has no values in the first place. I don't think this is necessarily across the board, but more of a general rule.
"Genes don't mold a child into a successful, responsible adult; raising the child with good values and motivating him or her to learn does."
That is true. But it's hard to be motivated to learn if the cirriculum consists of things that most will never encounter once they leave school, not to mention being subjected to bullies, poorly-written textbooks, ugly, cell block-like classrooms, teachers who are little more than place-fillers, and then have to spend hours at home doing dull, empty busywork.
Thanks. I think your analysis of the problem is correct, too.
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