University Students Are Unable to Read a Whole Book

Breitbart ^ | 17 April 2016 | Donna Rachel Edmunds

[luckystarmom]

I agree with that! I actually think reading is a must no matter what your major. Engineers still need to be able to read and write.

[fone]

>>>It’s astounding to me that today there are kids in college who don’t know who the first American president was.<<<

Your point is moot. The founding fathers were all a bunch of white racists, so it matters not.

/sarcasm

[jacquej]

My 7th garde teacher made us all read Pilgrims Progress. I still remember the Slough of Despond, trying to wade through that tome.

[LostInBayport]

....or cursive?

She sees what you did there.

[dr_lew]

Sine of 45 degrees (or pi/8 radians if you prefer) is one of those things a person memorized.

Does one memorize it ? Like "Arms and the man" ? Or does one KNOW it, by its definition?

[KC_Lion]

Hey, All the Oregon Trail's are Great Games, and I must admit when we did get to play them a handful of times in elementary schools we squeed in excitement!

[Rebelbase]

There’s a great racket among college profs who write and publish their own textbooks and require the students to purchase them. At $100 a pop and large class sizes they are pulling in some serious money every year.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Pssssh. Reading is for sissies.

[Yashcheritsiy]

I was an expert on Greek mythology by the 6th grade.

And was a solid amateur in Norse mythology.

[CaptainK]

I took it upon myself to read GWTW.

What your teacher did was an act of cruelty.

[Fred Hayek]

One has to know it as the ratios. I had a drafting board in the eighth grade (this is way before anything like AutoCAD), along with a Machinery Handbook.

[Yashcheritsiy]

οὗ μὲν γάρ με ἔδει κακοπαθεῖν τῷ σώματι μετὰ τῆς αἰτίας τῆς οὐ προσηκούσης, ἐνταυθοῖ οὐδέν με ὠφέλησεν ἡ ἐμπειρία: οὗ δέ με δεῖ σωθῆναι μετὰ τῆς ἀληθείας εἰπόντα τὰ γενόμενα, ἐν τούτῳ με βλάπτει ἡ τοῦ λέγειν ἀδυνασία.

[dr_lew]

One has to know it as the ratios.

Well, there you are : science. The science of space, in this instance.

[beaversmom]

Thanks for the ping KC-Lion. One of my friends had the Oregon Trail game, I think in the 80s, and had told me how much he liked it. I wanna play!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game)

Play classic game The Oregon Trail for free on your browser
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2015/01/08/oregon-trail-internet-archive/21450885

[minnesota_bound]

See this documentary footage on what you could have done to get your money back
Foolin’ Around (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3saLfCXuDY0

[the scotsman]

Abridged version of course.

[ChicagahAl]

wait til our enemies knock out the Electrical Grid... reading trying to stay alive will be popular again.

The books in the libraries will be used by looters for cooking and warming fires.

But you do have an interesting, upper-class-Victorian vision of the Apocalypse.

[MortMan]

Have you ever read the follow-ups to the trilogy? I’m blanking a bit on Titles (and too lazy to run downstairs and check) but the First Queen and Druid of Shannara books were pretty good, too.

[Marathoner]

I never forgot devouring “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” in the third grade.

[CodeToad]

Extremely few college graduates could even write a short book. Illiteracy is rampant among college graduates.