Posted on 12/07/2011 7:03:30 PM PST by savedbygrace
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked, and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".. All grades will be averaged, and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged, and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset, and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less, and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too, so they studied little.
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame, and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings, and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
To their great surprise, ALL FAILED, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail, because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on.)
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Well, Mr Pennant, if that is your real name, do you like your drinks watered down? Because what you’re getting is a watered down thread. Is there any useful information herein? I suspect that on the earlier threads, on perhaps the first one, which would have been relatively easy to find, there was something interesting, such as, say, the history of this urban legend, and so on. And here? Only fully justified bitching about it being a repeat lame thread. As I said, watered down.
old or not, true or not, I still liked reading this. thanks
interesting experiment to try on teenagers at Christmas
It’s an old story used to illustrate communism.
Hey, wait! If the teacher said no one would fail, then how come he flunked the whole class. The original story doesn’t have the “no one would fail” part.
Someone passed this e-mail along to me and that night I dreamed a peculiar dream. I dreamed I ate an 8 lb. marshmallow and when I woke up my pillow was gone.
Wow! You had an eight pound pillow!?!
As a classroom demonstration of a theory it was simply brilliant. But it was simplistic. Note that the premise of the test is that all the students have equal opportunities to study for the exams, the variable factor was who will grab this opportunity. In real life, although we say all are equal it is really not true. I am not just referring to attributes but to circumstances as well, primarily financial and social status.
I did not do that. You assume.
What’s your point?
I searched first.
I didn’t post it as news.
Please cite the research that proved this is the biggest.
Hyperbole much?
Re-read the first paragraph. Your premise is a straw man.
I searched first. Didn’t find it on FR. On the Internet, yes.
Nope. What’s your point?
Did I or the email message claim that it really happened?
Your best action item would be to petition Jim to add a note to the FR home page informing everyone that it is not required to read every thread, especially the “lame” ones.
Then you would be relieved of such an onerous duty as you have taken on.
Didn’t say *you* did, I was just responding to the line in the post.
Great tag line.
I know it’s old and probably never happened. A professor would be crucified for actually showing kids how communism works in a way they easily understand.
However, he should have added the part about the rich kid bribing the professor to steal all the meager points actually “produced” by the “true believers” in the class. “More equal than others” is a big part of communism and this 100% equal grade split makes communism look too good.
In real life, although we say all are equal it is really not true. I am not just referring to attributes but to circumstances as well, primarily financial and social status.
So, are you and advocate of socialism and redistribution of wealth?? Welcome to Free Republic.
Why don’t you set a permanent watch so you can post everything already posted for the 2nd, third, forth and even fifth time. It would be easy to do. I didn’t know it until now, but I figure they must give medals for starting threads, lame ones or otherwise, repeated or original. You’re very good at not searching if the story had been posted previously. Congratulations, keep up the good work.
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