Posted on 01/23/2008 7:30:42 PM PST by forkinsocket
Do they still devote so much of the school day to showing social engineering films? They used to use 16mm projectors from the AV department.
From the the post war era up through the 1980s (as video came into the classrooms), they were commonplace. And studies have been done on the messages they tried to impart on students (sometimes effectively, sometimes giving the wrong message).
School vouchers. Mike Huckabee opposes school vouchers, btw.
Did you know that the President of the NAACP Julian Bond, who opposes school vouchers, attended private schools his entire academic life?
Not a bookworm? Not reading is unfathomable to me.
One day of human observation is vastly more valuable than one day of electronic noise.
Read.
I read the book and peeked at the ending. It gets better.
I have to give Condie credit for staying with the Administration for the full two terms. I can't it imagine it's been a picnic for any of them, but she didn't turn tail and run, and has remained loyal to the President all this time. I'm thinking she's tired of the Washington scene, tired of the putz's in the State Department, and is doing only what is necessary just to get by. I felt the same way about my employer and the job in the months before I retired. Why bust your ass when everything you do will more than likely be thrown out when a new Administration comes in. At this point, I'm thinking she's going to keep a low profile until her time is done.
you have to start as a young person reading what you like and not what is forced upon you
I read a lot of crap when I was young...I out grew it.
I have read a lot of very informative and inspirational stuff after I had my fill of pablum...I grew up...
I LOVE to read! If all books were written like this article, I’d never pick up another.
She’s Presbyterian.
From her remarks at Southern Baptist Convention.
Now, I am a Presbyterian. (Laughter.) But I want to tell you why I’m a Presbyterian. I trace the roots of my faith back to my granddaddy. Granddaddy Rice was a poor sharecropper’s son in Eutaw, Alabama. That’s E-u-t-a-w, Alabama. (Laughter.) And one day he decided he was going to get book learning, so he asked where a colored man could go to college. And they told him that there was this little school called Stillman College. It was about 60 miles away from where he lived and he could go to Stillman College and get an education. So Granddaddy Rice saved up his tuition, saved up his cotton, and he went off to school and he finished his first year, and they said, “Well, that’s very good. Now how are you going to pay for your second year?” And he said, “Well, I’m fresh out of cotton.” And they said, “Well, you’ll have to leave.”
And he said, “Well, how are those boys going to college?” And they said, “Well, they have what’s called a scholarship. And if you wanted to be a Presbyterian minister, then you could have a scholarship, too.” (Laughter.) Well, my granddaddy said, “You know, that’s exactly what I had in mind.” (Laughter.) And my family has been college educated and Presbyterian ever since. (Laughter and applause.)
-Mark Twain
Yes, you may be right.
And working for Bush for 8 years won’t help her much if she plans to go back to academia.
Really? I hadn’t heard that one. Very strange, indeed.
Browsing in bookstores these days is more a behavioral tic for me than anything else. Forget about fiction.
LOL!
I thought I was the only one that did that. ;-) Too funny.
I read a lot (usually average a few books a week), and where books are concerned, it's more fiction than not. Currently reading C.S. Lewis' Perelandra. I love his writing...
Project Gutenberg is pretty impressive. I think the author has misconstrued a shift in reading emphasis to be a diminishment in reading itself. It isn't. I read more on the Internet than I did as a book-a-day junkie. I've cut the latter habit back to a more manageable book a week or even two if I'm feeling lazy. But I read around 12 hours a day between work and leisure.
What the Internet also offers is a way for a hugely greater number of people to have their words read. I agree with the author that some of the changes within the commercial publishing industry have become cramped and self-destructive, but I and my fellow FReepers don't depend on it. (Good thing, too, because it's a b17ch to find an agent these days. Ask me.) But I'm being published just as soon as I hit the Post button. That's a power no common man ever had in all of history.
What is happening with the Internet is absolutely compelling intellectually. We're in the middle of a ferment whose issue we cannot imagine. Twenty years from now it will seem peaceful.
I love CS Lewis. He and I share Nov 29 as our birthday. Although he is MUCH older than I. ;)
I am currently reading Screwtape Letters for about the 5th time. My husband and I are in a local CS Lewis study group.
How funny about the magnifying glass I thought I was the only one who did that. lol I read a mix fiction and non-fiction. At present in addition to Screwtape, I am reading Heresies and How to Avoid Them: Why It Matters What Christians Believe by Stanley Hauerwas, Ben Quash, and Michael Ward. Next I have a couple books about Islam.
My two teen girls read like crazy. My youngest always has a book with her.
My 11 yr old daughter has started listening to audio books. She already is a slow reader due to speech issues, and then she had a grand mal seizure in October. She was put on anti-seizure medication that made her stutter when she would read, so she stopped reading. Her teacher recommended the audio books for my daughter, and it has worked wonderfully. She is required at school to take these onlines tests for books she has read, and the teacers are okay with her listening to the books.
We’ve switched anti-seizure medication, and the stuttering is less. However, my daughter is still enjoying listening to the books. She can listen to more advanced books that are more interesting to her, and she can do it in a few days. She still reads other books, but she really is liking the audio books. She follows along in the regular book.
Anyway, we’re a big fan of audio books now. (My other two kids are huge readers. Both of them are way above grade level and read tons and tons of books.)
And she was an ice skater.
One of my daughters falls asleep surrounded by about 10 books. She’s just finished the Series of Unfortunate Events books. It took her a few weeks to read them all, and now she is very sad to be done with them. She was sad after reading Harry Potter also.
She reads more than I ever did at that age.
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