gubbimt... simultaneously the smartest guys EVAR and the dumbest people in the room.
Incapable of doing anything correctly and still able to commit the biggest conspiracies ever known.
People dislike government... that's fine, but try to have some clarity in your thinking. If you think it through maybe you'll see it's not an all or nothing problem. Take the powers away that need to be taken away and give the ones that are needed to keep a decent society.
Republicans aren't free market libertarians, they are corporatists. Corporatists go complaining to the government when their long standing business model is challenged. Look throughout US history and you'll see examples going all the way back to the decline of the railroad empires.
When this was brought up, I remembered the issues in Korean aviation that were found to be partially caused by co-pilots and other crew not pointing out problems to the captain because their society is so respectful to authority.
While that's not a great way to run a cockpit, it seems like it would make the schools perfect.
I am sure we've got a lot of teachers and corporate officials that would love it if our schools created scores of compliant automatons, but I am not sure I would want my kid to be one.l\
Any politician on the right that doesn't follow strict purity rules will not get anywhere. There isn't anyone else in the GOP that really want any type of scientific evidence for classroom instruction. They are in a full-fledged war on intellectualism right now.
I've read this, and people like Gatto deserve a place at the table when talking about education reform. He's right on when he describes the top-heavy organizations he worked in and how the system changed to emphasize non-teaching administrators instead of teachers.
Like everyone, though, he needs to be read with skepticism. If I remember correctly, he goes right up to the line of endorsing corporal punishment in the classroom as a cure which I don't personally buy. He promotes some of his beliefs as solid fact as well.
However, I'd some all of his observations are worth reading.
I have a lot of sympathy with this point of view, but there is a problem with it.
George Carlin said, to paraphrase, look at how stupid the average guy is and realize that half of the people are dumber than that.
My point is that we are not going to have a country with nothing but doctors, high-end engineers, programers, and tech people. Not everyone has the brainpower to do that. We have to have something to do or we with have the society in Vonnegut's Player Piano.
That could be the real challenge... what are we going to do when it's not economical for a human to do ANY busy work. Even the not-so-bright need something to do.
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This time, the "C" stands for Crap.
The Anthony Weiner method.
The submitter is a SPAZ
Get a new job. You're working for an idiot.
Demands like growth, profitability, aka success.
What a limited view of what makes a business successful.
Yeah, I know this is the corporate view. But just because it's the corporate view doesn't make it right. And unlimited growth is also called cancer.
gubbimt... simultaneously the smartest guys EVAR and the dumbest people in the room.
Incapable of doing anything correctly and still able to commit the biggest conspiracies ever known.
People dislike government... that's fine, but try to have some clarity in your thinking. If you think it through maybe you'll see it's not an all or nothing problem. Take the powers away that need to be taken away and give the ones that are needed to keep a decent society.
Bad logic that is favorable to your agenda is still bad logic.
Twisting logic is what I get mad at the "other guy" for. Don't tolerate it.
Republicans aren't free market libertarians, they are corporatists. Corporatists go complaining to the government when their long standing business model is challenged. Look throughout US history and you'll see examples going all the way back to the decline of the railroad empires.
Marissa! Marissa! Marissa!
per-scandaled. It's the new way to do business.
Not only that, it will teleport the *FCC* into your house to make sure all your bittorrent transfers are actually legal!
Start the presses! Time to print the "HDMI 2.0 Ready!" stickers!
Just putting it on the package is good enough for a 50% price hike AT LEAST!
The tweet that I saw says "bad customer service." I doubt you are going to be able to prove that libelous.
Poorly paid public facing people make the problem orders of magnitude worse.
In the US, money = speech.
And usually that favors corporate behemoths. Glad it is going the other direction for once.
When this was brought up, I remembered the issues in Korean aviation that were found to be partially caused by co-pilots and other crew not pointing out problems to the captain because their society is so respectful to authority.
While that's not a great way to run a cockpit, it seems like it would make the schools perfect.
I am sure we've got a lot of teachers and corporate officials that would love it if our schools created scores of compliant automatons, but I am not sure I would want my kid to be one.l\
This is predicated on not treating a school as if it was a factory.
This is a problem no one wants to talk about...
*All* sides of this debate seem to want to treat students as a commodity. This is a key problem that ALWAYS gets ignored.
Of course, GOP members that pander to their base is NEVER a problem in educational circles.
Any politician on the right that doesn't follow strict purity rules will not get anywhere. There isn't anyone else in the GOP that really want any type of scientific evidence for classroom instruction. They are in a full-fledged war on intellectualism right now.
I've read this, and people like Gatto deserve a place at the table when talking about education reform. He's right on when he describes the top-heavy organizations he worked in and how the system changed to emphasize non-teaching administrators instead of teachers.
Like everyone, though, he needs to be read with skepticism. If I remember correctly, he goes right up to the line of endorsing corporal punishment in the classroom as a cure which I don't personally buy. He promotes some of his beliefs as solid fact as well.
However, I'd some all of his observations are worth reading.
Why not fit cars with a voluntary limiter that users can enable themselves?
You're a fucking commedian...
It is when a corporate entity want the mess taken over.
Is Japan going to resist the drive to socialize the loss of corporations that can't keep their shit together?
Buggy whip manufacturers just started making OTHER type of whips..
er... so I'm told.
I have a lot of sympathy with this point of view, but there is a problem with it.
George Carlin said, to paraphrase, look at how stupid the average guy is and realize that half of the people are dumber than that.
My point is that we are not going to have a country with nothing but doctors, high-end engineers, programers, and tech people. Not everyone has the brainpower to do that. We have to have something to do or we with have the society in Vonnegut's Player Piano.
That could be the real challenge... what are we going to do when it's not economical for a human to do ANY busy work. Even the not-so-bright need something to do.