It's damn near impossible to make Kremlin-like or mosque-like onion domes with legos.
Depends upon how big you think.
Posted on 03/27/2007 6:03:10 AM PDT by Uncledave
When my parents took my guns away, I shot people with a stick. Then they gave me my guns back. My prize possession: a bazooka that fired a genuine hollow blue plastic grenade.
The goal of public schooling is no longer to educate and teach children how to learn. The new goal is to produce easily manageable adults.
This is a private school, not a public school.
"We have friends in Williamsburg. I was amazed at the history in that area. Driving from DC to Williamsburg encompassed many of the battles of the Civil War. I never realzed how close everything was until that day. Unfortunatley, our May trip is going to be a quick in and out one."
I came very close to attending William & Mary - beautiful area!
A bit stuffy - but very pretty.
Let's just build drab socialist societies, shall we??
And they wonder WHY Socialism failed wherever it was tried?
Get out while you can.
I think this is a good exercise if they carry it to the finish.
Take away all the pieces and tell the kids they have to do some work in order to get any pieces. They'll get a small collection but will stop getting more when the industrious ones realize that they have to give away half of what they earn to the lazy ones. Then the lazy bullies will force the industrious ones to work under threat of a playground beating.
The lesson on socialism will be complete when the kids start complaining that Legos suck.
Then you dump a big bunch of cool pieces on the floor, tell them they can make whatever they want under the basic rule of no stealing, and watch the kids scramble for the initial pieces and barter for what they need to complete their cool project. It'll be a bit chaotic in the beginning, but in the end Legos will be fun again and the kids will be happy.
That will be the lesson on capitalism.
I don't think guilt is what's going on, it's really envy deflection. It's a calculated strategy to keep their riches by playing the role of "good guy" rich, supporting envy-driven leftism and higher taxes, so that the green eyed monster is their "friend" and therefore doesn't go after them.
LOL!
Sounds like most schools' mission statements. Take a look some time. They're a hoot.
If a school doesn't know what it is or why it's here, how can it get anywhere?
Here's one I just googled. It's the Franklin, MA Public Schools Mission Statement.
Franklin High School Mission StatementFHS exists as a covenant among students, parents, staff and community. This collaboration promotes a rigorous, safe and nurturing environment in which students are responsible and passionate learners. In an atmosphere of equality, acceptance and respect, students prepare to contribute to our democratic society and an interdependent world.
Whatever.
Contrast this to a true mission statement, that might go something like this.
Since the purpose of human life is to know, love and serve God in this life so that we can be happy forever with Him in the next, our school should serve this end. Our curriculum will focus on teaching children grammar and logic (so that children can learn how to pursue Truth, which is the proper object of the intellect, and God Himself), and acts of charity and self-sacrifice, so that children can learn how to love God and neighbor for the love of God. Etc.
52? muahahahahaa!
Tack on 2 zeros for me buddy!
I'm totally drooling over the new Lego Millenium Falcon. It's the biggest model Lego has ever made. 5k pieces, for a whopping $500.
It's damn near impossible to make Kremlin-like or mosque-like onion domes with legos.
Depends upon how big you think.
LOL! No more entries, folks. That post wins the thread.
bttt
My sons are the same way. The younger one handles "loosing" better, but I think it is because he's been competing longer. The older one didn't have any "competition" until the second one came along. It is healthy for them - as long as it doesn't get out of hand.
You forgot 4) Those who know that a true classless society and perfect economic equality will never happen but it's a whole lot easier to rule at the top of the heap if you can control every aspect of everyone else's life, and eliminate the competition as enemies of the "people". Lenin, Stalin, Mao and the like fit in here. Maybe Hillary too!
"I’m a reader and a writer, a feminist committed to peace and to justice."
Translation: I am an ultra-ideologue, and I am abusing my access to children to push my world view on them. It's really all about me.
I won't claim to understand why they would, or how they can toss logic and common sense out the window and embrace the having their children indoctrinated in such a view of things that has such a horrible history of failure, unproductively, abuse of the common man by the leadership, and self victimization.
I do not understand why people would want to put their children on a path of sacrifice so that others can be rich and powerful. Why put them on a path of underachievement. Why teach them that they are destined to be under someone else's control.
They offer these kids the illusion of having an equal vote. They have an equal vote as long as they vote within the rules that have been laid out for them.
Socialism or Communism still ends up as a multi-class system in practice. There are the elite members of the government that really make their rules. The common people just get to argue about the details within the scope of those rules.
In between the elite members of the government and the common man there is a hierarchy of government officials that are granted some level of authority, and due to an institutional inability to address corruption, it is authority that is commonly abused.
For some reason there are just a lot of people who want to be lemmings, and believe that we must be lemmings as well.
Communism. Shrug. Lefties never learn.
By hatchet, axe, and saw.
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