Posted on 05/06/2023 4:45:28 AM PDT by george76
The education cabal is ruining our kids.
I asked her what the Scientific Method was. She had no clue. She's no dummy either. She took advanced placement courses in HS, finished almost a year early, and has a full ride to Ole Miss. I just hope they don't ask her about the Extinction...
But they all know about slavery, woman’s voting, the KKk, Columbus is evil, etc.
Import the third world, become the third world.
Yep, but no one in America seems to notice or care. Near as I can tell.
The most important lesson she needs to learn is how to learn.
Repeating what her teacher told her is not learning.
Learning is when you research a wide variety of conflicting opinions on any topic and try to develop tools that will help you evaluate them.
I had an uncle who once told me: “The more you know the more you realize you don’t know.”
That is the key to learning—there is always so much more to find out—there is no “settled science” and figuring what is going on in a sea of lies and liars is a major challenge for everyone.
Most “education” these days just produces brainwashed fools who are so dumbed down they don’t even know how much they don’t know.
A Jesuit that I know just spent six months in Portland, and noted how much it had changed since he last spent significant time there about 25 years ago. He quipped (presumably not originally) “Portland, where young people go to retire.”
Apparently many of the homeless (or rather tent and shanty dwellers) are people who got tire of living in their parents basements and simply prefer to be on the street with their friends.
Thank God I live in Ontario (and not really southern Ontario), although Vancouver and Vancouver Island could support this culture.
was having a discussion with my granddaughter, a HS Senior. We were talking about the extinction of the dinosaurs. She said it was because of global warming that killed all the plants and they died. I asked about the asteroid that collide with the Earth causing a Nuclear Winter freezing vegetation and killing them. She said no, it was global warming. I asked about the thin layer of Iridium, and mineral usually found in asteroids, that circles the globe that’s buried under about 60 million year of detritus. She had never heard of that. I said that support my position on the extinction, I asked what supported her. Her answer: my teacher.
That reminds me of the Far Side Cartoon of “the real reason dinosaurs became extinct.”
https://twitter.com/cogdog/status/668822715801841665
What was a joke with Larsen has become both farce and tragedy
(gundog—I sent a link to the article to Mr. K among others)
What do you think of the practice of handing out study questions? (I teach theology at a small liberal arts college). I think that it is garbage, but endemic, which puts me in a quandary.
(My undergrad was at Cornell in Econ with a focus on Economic History-—I don’t recall ever receiving study questions).
More evidence test standards need to be lowered further to improve overall scores.
Stupidity and ignorance is an American epidemic.
I do remember college professors who would stop the lecture for a few seconds and then say “this is important” and then resume the lecture.
That was a “clue” that at some point there would be an exam question on that point.
Of course that only helped if you attended class and managed to stay awake during class.
;-)
The history lessons I received in high school was detailed and complete. There were no political distortions. I was in high school in the 1960s.
Exactly what the leftist educators want.
“There were no political distortions. I was in high school in the 1960s.”
I used to believe that.
I do not anymore.
There are a range of hidden biases in all of history.
The biggest distortion is between the “public” version of history and the “secret” version known only to “insiders”.
This has been true going back to the Pharaohs.
I am going to give you a very specific example of “false history” that I know for an absolute fact.
My grandfather was in the construction business in CT from the 1920s and several decades after that.
He personally paid bribes to get state contracts to every major CT politician during that period.
He showed me the location where they met him to get their money and I got confirmation from the owner of the restaurant that my grandfather’s account was correct.
My grandfather was never caught.
None of the dozens of politicians were ever caught.
No media outlet ever got the story.
The biographies of all of the governors, senators, state legislators say nothing of this—usually claiming these were honest and high minded folks.
In this case it turns out that the “history” taught in schools is not the real “history”.
Dad went through OCS in 1968—the instructors had a bell that they would ring, which helped those struggling to stay awake.
I imagine they were mostly traditional Republicans, which is to say, anti-slavery New Englanders who appear to be proto-Karens with some friendliness towards business who would be RINOS now.
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