Posted on 06/27/2006 4:33:31 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
The record after 1960 is no different. It is hardly unfair to say that the stupidity of 1867, the fruitlessness of 1880, the dullness of 1895, the cannot be reformed of 1910, the absolutely nothing of 1930, and the nothing of 1960 have continued into the schools of today. We pay four times more in real dollars than we did in 1930 and thus we buy even more of what mass schooling dollars always bought.
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I like to say that children are sentenced to 12 years of schooling for having committed the crime of being born.
...And that at age 18 children are thrown bound and gagged onto the street of life.
Who cares?
Well, I have always been in favor of terminating public education. But if it does exist [and consumes a lot of resources], then at least these resources ought to be spent with maximum return, which is manifestly not the case now. On this much everyone can agree.
That's fine with me. I'm just glad that I don't work for you.
Sorry, your reply doesn't make sense to me. Single class as in one year one subject ? Or single class as in graduating class ?
Noam Chomsky is a full professor at MIT, as was Cornel West at Harvard. So what ? Ivy League universities hire idiots all the time, as much or more than they hire true scholars; your post proves nothing.
That said, yes some schools can and do have areas of excellence in which almost by chance a group of students and a teacher/professor go on to achieve high levels of scholarship. That is not the norm anywhere; it's serendipity. You see it primarily where the teacher and the students are highly motivated and somewhat matched in ability level.
Single class as an administrative group of students who would be sitting together in one room listening to, or interacting with, one instructor on whatever subject was in the schedule. More, that group did not change membership with the change of subjects and instructors. The graduating class [everyone graduating from that school in that year] had several such groups, but on my visit years ago I took some details of only one.
That test has been around as long as there has been an internet. I believe it has also been debunked from time to time but I don't have any specific links for that. One would think if it were legitimate someone would come up with another one of similar difficulty from another school system.
I'm glad, too. And everybody will live happily ever after.
Let him, by all means. The race is not always going to the swift, but this is the way to bet on it.
That's what I thought.
I wonder if he's still drawing retirement from that corrupt system? It's probably against his principles to do so, don't you think?
I don't know the answer to that.
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