Post #169,634
8/17/04 10:11:16 AM
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That is mainly the result of...
Public Schools teaching to the Tests.
Do not tell me they don't. I have watched it happen. I have seen the "preperations" Public Schools are using.
They have multiple WEEKS of intensive "memorizing" of "Anything that could be on the test"... I have my daughters agenda from School to prove it. The Agenda is something the school system came up with to help parents track *WHAT* the kids are doing.
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Post #169,636
8/17/04 10:18:49 AM
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Re: That is mainly the result of...
Apparently even the SAT has been renormalized to maintain the illusion that Education is All Fine in the Morning in the Shining Hill City overlooking the ruins of the Steel Plant in America.
This from my buddy the award-winning physics high-school teacher.
He is dismayed.
-drl
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Post #169,723
8/17/04 4:44:04 PM
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What was that Feynman quote
re his year teaching in S. America.. containing the phrase "no one really knows anything, but.." - referring to a similar mindset of fitting the 'tests' to the misconceptions. (Re physics teaching there, natch)
BTW, a search on "Feynman + 'nobody really knows' - turns up some neat-o stuff.
Starts at the Top - Sierra Club honcho on NPR re the anti-science scientism of this pack of raving loonies, esp. re the environment:
[This is an actual 'command' from the Shrubivores re Govt 'publications']
"We can't use the phrase, 'global warming'; that will frighten too many people - must say 'climate change'"
Note that None of the cabal has been heard to utter the GW-phrase - including the disgraced Powell; all the other minions.
cha cha cha.
Language Murder: necessary prerequisite to Speciecide . We're mastering the process.
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Post #169,727
8/17/04 4:51:12 PM
8/17/04 4:58:38 PM
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..was a quote from Edward Gibbon
"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." Edit: from here, the context: [link|http://www.math.columbia.edu/~pinkham/MVD_Acceptance_Speech.html|http://www.math.colu...tance_Speech.html]
As Gibbon says, "the monstrous vices of the son" - Commodus - "have cast a shade on the purity of the father's motives", because, " he sacrificed the happiness of millions to a fond partiality for a worthless boy" in making Commodus his successor. The vices of Commodus are described at length by Gibbon, and I refer you to chapter IV of the Decline and Fall for details. Gibbon goes on to say:
Nothing was neglected by the anxious father, and by the men of virtue and learning whom he summoned to his assistance, to expand the narrow mind of young Commodus, to correct his growing vices, and to render him worthy of the throne. But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. The distasteful lesson of a grave philosopher was, in a moment, obliterated by the whisper of a profligate favorite; and Marcus himself blasted the fruits of this labored education, by admitting his son, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, to a full participation of the Imperial power.
-drl
Edited by deSitter
Aug. 17, 2004, 04:58:38 PM EDT
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Post #169,759
8/17/04 7:28:02 PM
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This quote?
"I couldn\ufffdt see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything."
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #169,807
8/18/04 2:56:32 AM
8/18/04 3:03:25 AM
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Prec\ufffdsamente eso.
Find that on line or - have the books? (in which case you're a fast phrase finder; I have them too, but my search function doesn't make any of the lines turn blue)
Gracias
Edited by Ashton
Aug. 18, 2004, 03:03:25 AM EDT
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Post #169,917
8/18/04 4:06:40 PM
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Found online
To deny the indirect purchaser, who in this case is the ultimate purchaser, the right to seek relief from unlawful conduct, would essentially remove the word consumer from the Consumer Protection Act
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