Interceptor
Master Don Juan
Fantastic read, Lovely Lady. Thanks for sharing.
Some great insight there.
Some great insight there.
this month in mensa..
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Master Don Juan
couple points I'd like to make. actually, three.
1) If you look at education from a broader perspective, (Ref. "The Global Brain" by Bloom) it is definately for the good of society, rather than the good of the individual. So the worker bee analogy is pretty spot on.
2) I don't remember where, (I believe it was a book by Brian Tracy) but the original school system model (as it evolved into what it is today) wasn't to "teach" each individual to his/her potential, but to "weed out" those that had natural ability who could "last through" the "school machine" and become politicians, aristocrats, etc. The rest, the ones whose original brilliance (B. Fuller : "we are all born genius', but 99.9% of us are de-geniused) was mashed down, were the expendable soldiers and what not.
3) when I was in university, all my buddies that were cruising through and didn't really have a plan for their lives, well, became teachers as their fallback posiiton. No disrespect for teachers out there, but becoming a public school teacher is one of the easiest "professional" jobs you can get, with wicked time off to boot. I took the california test that substitute teachers have to take to get their credential, and I am being absolutely serious that I could have drank a pint of whiskey before and still easily passed, it was that easy.
so yea, if you're a parent, I would NOT waste your time trying to fight the system, by the time you make a small dent it will be too late for your kids. Watch out for you own, keep close watch on your kids development. And I mean like EVERYDAY close watch. If you leave it up to the school system, they will be swallowed whole by the matrix.
1) If you look at education from a broader perspective, (Ref. "The Global Brain" by Bloom) it is definately for the good of society, rather than the good of the individual. So the worker bee analogy is pretty spot on.
2) I don't remember where, (I believe it was a book by Brian Tracy) but the original school system model (as it evolved into what it is today) wasn't to "teach" each individual to his/her potential, but to "weed out" those that had natural ability who could "last through" the "school machine" and become politicians, aristocrats, etc. The rest, the ones whose original brilliance (B. Fuller : "we are all born genius', but 99.9% of us are de-geniused) was mashed down, were the expendable soldiers and what not.
3) when I was in university, all my buddies that were cruising through and didn't really have a plan for their lives, well, became teachers as their fallback posiiton. No disrespect for teachers out there, but becoming a public school teacher is one of the easiest "professional" jobs you can get, with wicked time off to boot. I took the california test that substitute teachers have to take to get their credential, and I am being absolutely serious that I could have drank a pint of whiskey before and still easily passed, it was that easy.
so yea, if you're a parent, I would NOT waste your time trying to fight the system, by the time you make a small dent it will be too late for your kids. Watch out for you own, keep close watch on your kids development. And I mean like EVERYDAY close watch. If you leave it up to the school system, they will be swallowed whole by the matrix.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-sP26ZmCHY4
i love the fact that THIS guy is the one in charge of our educational system.
i love the fact that THIS guy is the one in charge of our educational system.
penkitten said:
Why?
There are too many children, and my taxes keep going up. Stop having so many kids and then expecting me to foot the bill for your decisions.
To hell with socialist health care too. Everyone eats like crap and never exercises and drinks excessively and smokes and then expects me to pay more taxes so they can keep living so they can abuse themselves some more. No thanks, I will take my chances just having personal insurance.
Most people don't need beyond basic reading and math skills anyway. That's pretty obvious since the average person doesn't seem to even have those skills even after having me pay for their schooling. How about we test the best and brightest in like 7th grade and then allow those to continue on while the garbagemen who want to cut class to drink and smoke can skip trig and calculus or 12th grade basic math when they didn't bother to learn how to multiply in the 10 years it was taught before then. Or maybe institute some sort of Carousel like in Logan's Run.
Look around these very forums. People don't even know the difference between the homonyms and want to act like it doesn't matter. "I didn't run spell check blah blah blah." It should be automatic by now. WTF were they doing during all those years I payed to school them?
70s sci fi reference ftw!