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To: conservativegramma

I dare say the average 2010 College graduate could not pass this test.

Liberals must have the populous stupid and needy to retain power and they have succeeded through dumbing down the U.S. Education system.


45 posted on 09/14/2010 9:20:35 AM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: TruthHound

Education has just changed tremendously.

I was seated next to a young minister at a wedding reception last year and I started asking him some questions that I have had left over from the side affects of a freshman survey of religion class. I asked him if he had read Tillich, Niebuhr or Bonhoeffer and I told him that we read them as freshman in college in a required course and that they left me more questions than answers. I always like to get into a good religious discussion with ministers who have read them.

He hadn’t read them, except a little Bonhoeffer. Anyway, the upshot was that he was shocked that students read them in a required 101 religion course as freshmen because he said that graduate students in theology have a hard time with them. I told him that education has changed. Then I told him that when I was in 8th grade, I had to do a 20 page paper on the Effect of the Monroe Doctrine on the US foreign policy during the pre-Civil War period. He just looked at me and shook his head.


64 posted on 09/14/2010 1:46:51 PM PDT by Eva
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