Posted on 06/20/2018 6:29:08 PM PDT by huckfillary
Well the ones that want to stay on the right side of the law usually get jobs at slaughterhouses.
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Speaking of Julius Caesar, it is a little known fact that Shakespeare’s play was originally titled “Julius Grab the Girl Before She Gets Away”.
He shortened the title.
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE was usually required reading in high school and I agree with you re the "unfortunately"!
Good fiction (poetry too ) has its place and should be required reading in grades 3-8, instead of the garbage that is currently being required, even in the best, most elite private day schools.
Or the old Groucho Marx line: Who is buried in Grant’s Tomb??
“Can you cite the four rights enshrined in the First Amendment?”
There are 5 rights enshrined in the First Amendment. Religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.
Do I get get bonus points for this?
Fixed.
Music is a different mechanism.
And some people are not auditory learners.
If someone gives me directions to somewhere verbally, I can make it to the first light and turn right and that’s it.
If I see a map or especially if I draw a map, I can throw it out right away and not need it again. I am able to get a picture in my mind’s eye of the map and see it there.
I CANNOT do that by hearing.
People’s brains are wired differently and what works for one does not work for another. So no, it’s not a matter of *want to*.
Re: “good for a laugh”
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Stupid in America: Students Are So Bad, Professor Can’t Grade Them
Apathetic or even hostile students, dumbed-down tests, often incompetent and ideologically driven teachers, Cracker Jack-box degrees, morally toxic curricula, revisionist history, the new math — education has collapsed in America. And one of the sincere educators, wandering amidst the rubble, recently provided a window into this academic apocalypse.
Eileen F. Toplansky, a social commentator and adjunct English instructor at the college level, laments that a good number of her ex-students were so bad that it’s difficult to even grade their work. She provides many examples of former students definitely not smarter than a fifth grader...
I knew a lady who was born in the 1890’s and who had passed the entrance exam to attend a RURAL (very rural) Pennsylvania High School in the 1910’s.
She had four years of French, four years of Latin, four years of German, and three years of Greek.
what little fiction I read in school, I remembered long enough to get a grade and then promptly forgot.
as for poetry, I write it, but don’t usually read it.
I made the mistake of glancing at one of E. E. Cummings collections, it was the most unintelligible, childish garbage I have ever read.
Shakespeare, I’ll give you that one, (I prefer the movies)
I think memorizing trivia is not much more than a quirky and mostly useless talent (that I don’t have, public school or not). But I will put my theoretical skills at comprehending special or general relativity up against the author’s or any of the fill-in-the-blank trivia “geniuses” any day.
I think Spock invented Vulcanized rubber.
Pre-warning: I’m bored and its a slow night at work -
“Who invented the cotton gin?”
I didn’t even know you could make gin from cotton.
“Movable press?”
John Wooden
“The reaper?”
Blue Oyster Cult, though they didn’t want people being afraid of it.
“Vulcanized rubber?”
Mr Spock
“Can you identify all 50 states from a map of the United States? And name their capitals?”
Yeh the names are written on the map and the capital is the first letter of the name.
“Can you quickly recite the multiplication tables?”
I can recite my gozintas. 1 gozinta 2 two times, etc
“On which date was Julius Caesar assassinated?”
It was the day before his funeral.
“Can you prove that a triangle is 180 degrees?”
My thermometer doesn’t go that high.
“Can you name the formula of Einstein’s theory of relativity?”
Counting just blood kin or in-laws too?
“Do you know when to use there, their, and they’re ? Your and you’re ?”
Your really gonna go their?
“Can you name the oceans ?”
I could but I thought they already had names.
As the recipient of a home education I am no fan of the public school system. I will be educating my own children at home but this list and the accompanying paragraphs in an effort to encourage it are poor attempts at highlighting the benefits of non-government school. The point of education is not for you to memorize a bunch of facts, although the art and skill of memorization is lost today and is beneficial in spite of our googlable world. Instead, education should teach you HOW to think and reason which is why the modern school system fails on so many levels
Interesting article,but has nothing to do with public schools,private schools,or home schooling.
It seems to be comparing education today vs. years ago..
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Hirsh has a series of books WHAT EVERY x GRADER SHOULD KNOW I think it goes up to 8th grade and there is also a listing of appropriate curriculum for each grade available. I used it as a guide to make sure my children were well educated when I homeschooled and that I didn’t miss anything.
I wouldn’t send a skunk to any public school.
I am going to be volunteering at a homeschool coop soon. All adults who have skills to offer need to volunteer to educate kids in private homeschooling and private school settings.
And don't even get e started on the high level of education that she got in high school! LOL
Today's education, on ALL levels and for ALL venues ( including homeschoolers! ) is extremely low!
But thankfully, some parents and grandparents still take their responsibilities, to children, seriously and expose them to many things that they will NEVER get in any school. It's just a shame that they are few in number.
Rote learning and drills are what will help an older child develop into a critical thinker. Doing higher math is way easier when you don’t need a calculator to divide or factor a 2 digit number. With history being able to understand why an event happened or how it changed the times requires you to recall who was in charge at that time and what major issues were present in that time period.
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