Posted on 08/21/2019 6:35:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
There can be little doubt that the majority of today’s students are largely incapable of literate performance. They are also collectively devoid of humility before the majesty of the Great Tradition and the lessons of experience that would allow them to grapple with a strenuous and comprehensive curriculum of study.
They have been deprived of genuine instruction in the academic disciplines, indoctrinated in the political shibboleths of the time, and coddled into a state of self-assured autonomy of judgment. This is common knowledge.
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Grasping the rudiments of grammar and style, learning how to write coherently (by which I mean both the cursive of penmanship and the cursive of thought), and reading with comprehension in history, literature, philosophy and politics have become dead letters, quite literally. The state of juvenility and ineptitude in which they loiter bodes ill for the culture.
The default procedure among administrators and teachers is to ignore the obvious, to install largely useless computer instruction in the acquisition of writing skills and language proficiency, insist that “fairness” justifies weakening admission standards at the expense of quality, and that ‘social justice” rather than scholarly achievement and disciplinary merit is the aim of education.
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With penmanship, print or cursive, one is writing "legibly." With reason, syntax, and grammar, one may write or speak "coherently" or "intelligibly."
Papers must be coherent in the presentation of their ideas and arguments. Legibility, alone, is not enough.
That was exactly my point.
I think that if a person is going to publish an essay about writing, he should use words accurately. It’s not good enough to say, “Readers could figure out what it was supposed to mean.”
This is why we can’t have nice things: because we’re not allowed to point out errors even in an article that purport to teach writing. There used to be editors between a writer and publication. There could be again.
Anyone who cares is welcome to identify my noun/verb agreement error.
Someone send this writer a copy of Strunk and White, please.
Well said.
I sometimes wonder why I bothered to master Standard English, given the level of facility in professional journalism, not even to mention amateur publications.
E-books are often not only badly written, but poorly edited.
Nevertheless, I persevere: I feel compelled to write my science-fiction novel in a manner that respects the language, even if no future reader can perceive it.
It is difficult to pick a most (read: least) favorite error among the ostensibly professional writers, but I have perforce settled upon this one:
Writers who on some level aspire to be grammatically correct, but who lack the requisite education, abuse the words “who” and “whom” with regularity, especially when usage involves a noun clause:
“Give it to whomever you chose”: This is correct; “whomever” is the object in a noun clause.
“Give it to whomever chose you”: This is incorrect; it should be “whoever,” the subject of a noun clause.
People look at me funny when I remind my children, “Mind your pronoun cases; that’s what sets us apart from the savages.”
People laugh at “grammar Nazis,” but when humanity is reduced to grunting and pointing because nobody can make his meaning clear using words, the universe will know we were right.
There are different expectations for published work and casual exchanges, of course.
Reclamation is always difficult though differentially possible, assuming native and untapped inclination in the student, a curriculum stressing the basics and expanding outward, an administration concerned with education rather than entrenchment, and teachers who are themselves well-educated and professionally accountable -- a Sisyphean proposition.
Is this the kid in the Far Side cartoon who was trying to open the door to Midvale School for the Gifted?
Reclamation is always difficult...
No it isn't. Rufus opened up the way. Bill and Ted had a most excellent adventure through history, collecting important historical characters and bringing them into the present. Who can forget "Bob" Ghengis Khan or So-crates Johnson?
People don't learn from history!
Talk about timing:
BILL & TED 3
In time, everything will be alright...Currently in production, Bill & Ted Face the Music will see the duo long past their days as time-traveling teenagers and now weighed down by middle age and the responsibilities of family. They’ve written thousands of tunes, but they have yet to write a good one, much less the greatest song ever written. With the fabric of time and space tearing around them, a visitor from the future warns our heroes that only their song can save life as we know it. Out of luck and fresh out of inspiration, Bill and Ted set out on a time travel adventure to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe. Together with the aid of their teenage daughters Billie and Thea, a new crop of historical figures and some sympathetic music legends, they find much, much more than just a song. Bill & Ted Face the Music will begin filming summer 2019, with a set release date of August 21, 2020.
https://www.billandted3.com/about-bill-and-ted-3-bill-and-ted-face-the-music.html
the song that will set their world right and bring harmony in the universe:
"Be excellent to each other."
It's the living way - literally going up:
Bill:
All right, everybody, watch your step getting off. Beeth-oven, make sure you don't get sucked under. Everybody get together, remember who your buddy is. So-crates, watch out for your robe, dude. OK, follow me.
It was a generalization, not directly responsive to your comment.
This is the San Dimas mall. And this is where people of today's world hang out. All right, everybody, watch your step getting off. Beeth-oven, make sure you don't get sucked under. Everybody get together, remember who your buddy is. So-crates, watch out for your robe, dude. OK, follow me.
Who was San Dimas:
The Penitent Thief, also known as the Good Thief or the Thief on the Cross, is one of two unnamed thieves in Luke's account of the crucifixion of Jesus in the New Testament. The Gospel of Luke describes him asking Jesus to "remember him" when Jesus will have "come into" his kingdom. The other, as the impenitent thief, challenges Jesus to save himself to prove that he is the Messiah.
Remember San Dimas, High in California.
Bill & Ted Face the Music will begin filming summer 2019, with a set release date of August 21, 2020.
Another interesting detail in the timing and historical traditions is that San Dimas' feast day is March 25th, the same as the Feast of the Annunciation, the traditional date that Mary received a timely tip.
Because...
If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, take the highway that is best
Get your kicks on Route 66.
What does the MOTHER ROAD have to do with anything?
66 is one of those numeric values that is pretty well know in Kabbalah circles because 66 = "son of David" [ben David, בן דוד]. And of course as in Protestant book totals, the most well-known sum of the books in the Bible is 66. That would be the "Old Testament" [הברית הישנה] + the "New Testament" [הברית החדשה].
When you add them together, 987 + 939 = 1926:
US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year.
"The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days and had to be extended several times. A formal peace agreement was only reached when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year."
The Traveling Wilburys - Inside Out
Nobody knows Jack. That's how everybody is going to learn to get along.
Bill:
Socrates - "The only true wisdom consists of knowing you know nothing."
Ted:
"That's us, dude."
Daniel 12
8. And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
It's the end of summer, meaning Back to School! Simple.
~ rewiring the natural love of learning in young people
Because you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Why so serious.
Matthew 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
The little sponges..
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