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University Students Are Unable to Read a Whole Book
Breitbart ^
| 17 April 2016
| Donna Rachel Edmunds
Posted on 04/18/2016 3:18:12 PM PDT by daisy12
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To: Pollster1
I agree with that! I actually think reading is a must no matter what your major. Engineers still need to be able to read and write.
To: Kipp
>>>Its astounding to me that today there are kids in college who dont know who the first American president was.<<<
Your point is moot. The founding fathers were all a bunch of white racists, so it matters not.
/sarcasm
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posted on
04/18/2016 6:51:30 PM PDT
by
fone
(Proverbs 109.8)
To: CaptainK
My 7th garde teacher made us all read Pilgrims Progress. I still remember the Slough of Despond, trying to wade through that tome.
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posted on
04/18/2016 6:55:21 PM PDT
by
jacquej
("You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture." (Mark Steyn))
To: GreenHornet
....or cursive?
She sees what you did there.
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posted on
04/18/2016 7:06:02 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Fred Hayek
Sine of 45 degrees (or pi/8 radians if you prefer) is one of those things a person memorized.Does one memorize it ? Like "Arms and the man" ? Or does one KNOW it, by its definition?
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posted on
04/18/2016 7:26:06 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: GenXteacher; GraceG; beaversmom
Hey, All the Oregon Trail's are Great Games, and I must admit when we did get to play them a handful of times in elementary schools we squeed in excitement!
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posted on
04/18/2016 7:31:45 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(Everyone Does Know that after the Last Brokered Republican Convention, They Lost, Right?)
To: LoneStarGI
There’s a great racket among college profs who write and publish their own textbooks and require the students to purchase them. At $100 a pop and large class sizes they are pulling in some serious money every year.
To: daisy12
Pssssh. Reading is for sissies.
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posted on
04/18/2016 7:50:46 PM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
To: mountn man
I was an expert on Greek mythology by the 6th grade.
And was a solid amateur in Norse mythology.
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posted on
04/18/2016 7:55:56 PM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
To: jacquej
I took it upon myself to read GWTW.
What your teacher did was an act of cruelty.
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posted on
04/18/2016 8:03:59 PM PDT
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: dr_lew
One has to know it as the ratios. I had a drafting board in the eighth grade (this is way before anything like AutoCAD), along with a Machinery Handbook.
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posted on
04/18/2016 8:04:26 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: bert
οὗ μὲν γάρ με ἔδει κακοπαθεῖν τῷ σώματι μετὰ τῆς αἰτίας τῆς οὐ προσηκούσης, ἐνταυθοῖ οὐδέν με ὠφέλησεν ἡ ἐμπειρία: οὗ δέ με δεῖ σωθῆναι μετὰ τῆς ἀληθείας εἰπόντα τὰ γενόμενα, ἐν τούτῳ με βλάπτει ἡ τοῦ λέγειν ἀδυνασία.
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posted on
04/18/2016 8:22:46 PM PDT
by
Yashcheritsiy
(You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
To: Fred Hayek
One has to know it as the ratios.Well, there you are : science. The science of space, in this instance.
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posted on
04/18/2016 9:07:13 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: GenXteacher; KC_Lion
To: LoneStarGI
To: dragonblustar
Abridged version of course.
To: Forward the Light Brigade
wait til our enemies knock out the Electrical Grid... reading trying to stay alive will be popular again. The books in the libraries will be used by looters for cooking and warming fires.
But you do have an interesting, upper-class-Victorian vision of the Apocalypse.
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posted on
04/19/2016 1:16:41 PM PDT
by
ChicagahAl
(Socialism is the political version of AIDS. No Cure. Always Fatal. Contagious If Unprotected.)
To: MarkL
Have you ever read the follow-ups to the trilogy? I’m blanking a bit on Titles (and too lazy to run downstairs and check) but the First Queen and Druid of Shannara books were pretty good, too.
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posted on
04/19/2016 1:23:19 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(Let's call the push for amnesty what it is: Pedrophilia.)
To: daisy12
I never forgot devouring “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” in the third grade.
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posted on
04/19/2016 1:23:32 PM PDT
by
Marathoner
(Cruz or Lose 2016)
To: daisy12
Extremely few college graduates could even write a short book. Illiteracy is rampant among college graduates.
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posted on
04/19/2016 1:24:52 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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