Posted on 12/18/2008 9:30:57 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
This just goes to show how far our education has been dumbed down.
Not me, I wasn’t born until 1957.
Yeah, by then the softening of the curricula was well under way.
Did you come even close? These tests from the 1800s are not easy.
This test hurts my feelings.
Bingo. Lets see someone from 1895 build a website!
Sorry. This is an urban legend. Please see http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp for the background of this hoary chestnut.
Arithmetic’s doable, but the rest... ah... I may need time. ;)
Mee too. I would be -69 years old.
Since the classroom was different as the teaching of that era and I’ve never been in a classroom of that time period, the answer is no.
I can answer that one. I am currently in Irvine CA for business. I reside in MA. This is my first trip to the West Coast.
The only description I can give of the mountains I've seen this week (between rain storms) is...Holy Crap!
I'll be taking lots of photos this weekend. (If I can tear myself away from The Irvine Spectrum.)
GMTA
“This just goes to show how far our education has been dumbed down. “
In researching the novel I recently wrote, I learned a lot about education in the 1800’s. First it was valued above anything for those who could afford it. I have volumes of documents, letters, written by Cherokee ancestors from the early 1800’s, all the way through. They had to fight hard to be educated and they were better educated than most students of today. One day perhaps, we will get back to the idea of education being valuable.
I am truly offended and intimidated. That article should have not been written in black. A soft, understated purple should have been used. :D
The students of today know only to vilify our current President and praise the prez-elect.
No, I could not have passed. Maybe I could dig up a McGuffy Reader.
What few people realize here...is that when a kid finished and passed the local school board exam (at whatever age he could passed)...he actually knew something. When you measure the amount of knowledge that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Thomas Edison had at 18....its probably what you’d find in a 22-year old guy who finishes up four years of college.
At some point, up until the 1940s....high school meant something and most everyone in America got by without a degree of any sort. My grandmother had six months of teaching college in the 1910 period...and proceeded to teach kids (with no certificates).
If the public ever came to grasp the significance of school in 1895...they might ask some really stupid questions...which your local school board really doesn’t want to answer.
i m a publik scewl teechur. I might be able to teach some of this if the NEA would let me. I would also need permission to discipline my students as they would have in 1895.
bfltr
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