All righty then...
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Posted on 10/14/2011 6:39:45 AM PDT by IbJensen
No, they did not know that I knew they were looking. Very few figured this out (thankfully).
Very well stated.
Evan Tanner, protagonist of a series of books by Lawrence Block, earned his living as a thesis-writer and test-taker. The earliest book was published in 1966, the year I was born. Teachers were common customers, because they earned compensation for credentials, independent of knowledge or job performance.
I would suggest that the vast expansion of government since the 1960s has produced ever more jobs in which check-in-a-box credentials are the main requirement. So many government jobs are tail-chasing, relevant only to other inhabitants of the maze, that “ability” to do anything but breathe really doesn’t matter. (Indeed, inability to do the job, such as it is, if often a “disability” that protects the employee from consequences.) Consequently, the employee gains nothing, on the professional level, by earning his credentials as opposed to paying someone else to do the work.
The biggest problem students in my class have is finding somebody to sit next to. Since almost all of them plan to cheat their way through, they have very few people to cheat from.
I was asked in scholarship interviews what I did with my time:
* School, studying, 4.33 GPA in several honors classes
* Worked part time to help support family
* Church, frequent church camp
Never mind my family met the “poor but good grades” category that was all the scholarships were intended for. I was asked what sports, what arts, what leadership positions? Great grades were the norm, so that didn’t matter. Working for pay didn’t count as “well rounded” or “a citizen of our society”. Church and related activities didn’t count as volunteering.
If I hadn’t majored in engineering, there wouldn’t have been any scholarships at all.
A very pretty anecdote.
One of the things I didn’t put in this article is that the system now seems designed to make sure lots of liberal professors (probably Democrats) are paid lots of money to provide liberal indoctrination to an EVER LARGER TIDE of incoming students with the goal of making sure they become Democrats. If cheating were stopped, the tide might be cut in half.
Higher education was once intended to liberate human minds. Now, too often, it seems intended to make sure that those minds never get off the reservation.
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All righty then...
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
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