Posted on 08/26/2013 7:12:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Imagine going through life as orangello
(And: “My friend’s brother is an emergency room doc and he swears...” doesn’t qualify as proof.)
“Two years at a JC probably could have better prepared him for a four year state college, which is not as demanding as a UC.”
UC is a state college.
I think he meant something like “Cal State ______” as opposed to “University of California at ____”.
As a speechwriter for GWB, Michael Gerson coined the phrase "the soft bigotry of low expectations." Your observation is exactly what that phrase means. The do-gooders are destroying these kids by never letting them hear the words "that's not good enough".
It’s 2013 and there is a black dorm at Berkeley?
Oranjello is indeed a fictitious name...invented as far as I know, by a Comic character Named Shirely Q. Liquor
“she” also claims to have a daughter named Gyno-Lotrimin!
“The black guy who didn’t do so well reminds me of a couple of white guys I met in college, who were just educated beyond their mental abilities. They wrote similar types of papers full of big words with no clear concepts behind them.”
The term for them is ‘legacy admission’.
In that case, it proves a mathematical (statistical) phenomena - reversion to the mean.
One of the top theoretical physicists in the world was a journeyman plumber before he found his true calling.
I’ve made the IQ argument before. I’ve stated if IQ didn’t mean anything, we could go to NASA or other space centers and find rocket scientists with average IQs or worse. I don’t think we’d find that.
Not really. One of the guys I have in mind wanted to be a literary intellectual. He was very enthusiatstic, had read Northrup Frye and Wayne Booth in high school, and had a huge bookshelf full of advanced literary criticism. He was a Jewish guy from Long Island, went to a top high school and did very well, with high test scores.
But he was only moderately bright, so he just didn’t have the mental horsepower to actually understand the concepts. You really needed to be brilliant to do this stuff. All of the genuine literary intellectuals made fun of him behind his back.
He was replaced by his Asian counter-part who had excellent grades and was a capitalist.
Ka-Ching!
Jacques Barzun used to write about the decline of western civilization, and he cited intellectualism as one of the causes.
He was talking about the needless obfuscation of mostly scientific concepts that kept ‘ordinary’ people from supporting its advance. Von Braun enlisting Walt Disney to get ordinary tax payers excited about putting a man on the moon was an example of how to link very hard problem-solving to the imagination of the people who’d likely benefit the most.
When you talk about ‘literary criticism’, and having the real horsepower to do it, what exactly are we talking about, and how does you 11th grade high schooler who may want to do the same thing benefit?
And I would add "possession of a Nobel Prize" to that list.
Berkeley is so left-wing that it encouraged blacks to live in a blacks-only dorm in the name of identity politics, and then Kashawn and his dorm-mates wonder why they feel isolated!
Hello?
Don't confuse the Nobels given for "peace" and "literature" to those given for the science fields. Those are still very much given on merit. He who possesses a Nobel in chemistry, physics, medicine, etc. probably "is" a genius.
I agree. She is one of my few ‘must read’ writers. The takedown of AA encroachment in this article is priceless:
www.city-journal.org/2011/cjc0714hm.html
I do agree with you there; and had the second thought after I posted, but didn't post a correction. Thanks for bringing it up.
You sir, have hit the nail squarely on the head.
After 4 years of college, I have used the education I received in a myriad of ways.
Most notably, winning many games of Trivial Pursuit, and astounding my wife with my well-rounded education whilst we watch Jeopardy.
About the only thing that impressed potential employers was that I made it through The Citadel. Which is a wonderful place to be FROM and a miserable place to be....for most people.
Far be it from me to say that I was raised in a strict household with a career Army MP officer for a father....but my faculty advisor at The Citadel remarked to me that I was the only person he had ever seen who looked upon it as a party school.
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