But two groups of other kids their age they especially need to socialize with are other smart kids (to learn early on that they aren't the only or the smartest kid around) and other kids with talents which the smart kid doesn't have (to learn that there are other valuable talents besides being "smart").
I don't agree with you. I think smart kids can learn this from adults outside their family, but I don't have the qualifications or the facts to prove it, so I'll back off for now.
I'd love to shut down the public schools, but don't sell me any of that shit about the free market or the invisible hand. I'm an atheist, and to me the market is just another imaginary god. Compulsory public education is a mass violation of individual rights (those of the students compelled to attend). That is reason enough to shutter them.
Having done time in a "gifted and talented" program in elementary school, I think the best thing the schools can do for top performers is give 'em a library card. Turn 'em loose once they know how to read and work with a card catalog and a search engine. Smart kids don't need to socialize with kids their own age. They need to socialize with the adults they'll eventually become.
The WSJ article doesn't offer any value, either. It's just typical corporatist propaganda from Rupert Murdoch -- the modern Gail Wynand. #WeDontReadWynand
We need the schools to do it because parents aren't stepping up and doing their job. Chances are the parents never learned critical thinking skills in the first place, the schools being what they are. Parents aren't parenting, by the way, because we as a society decided that making the rich richer matters more than anything else, and now both parents feel obligated to work just to maintain a reasonable approximation of a 21st century middle-class lifestyle.
The above should read, "Nobody in authority should be able to do so much as fart on the job without being expected to justify their actions -- in front of a jury if necessary." Sorry for the inconvenience.
The government-run schools still run on a nineteenth century industrial paradigm designed to take children and churn out standardized, obedient, punctual factory workers. Fix that first if you care about kids getting critical thinking skills.
IMO, the fact that the establishment is the establishment should be reason enough to subject them to constant questioning and criticism. Nobody in authority should be able to do so much as fart on the job being expected to justify their actions -- in front of a jury if necessary.
No matter how much you want it to be true, corporations do not exist for the purpose of employing people or paying taxes. They just don't
The laws that made American corporations responsible to nobody but their shareholders were made by men, and they can be reformed by men. All it takes is sufficient political will.
Corporations are already leaving the United States -- and good riddance to them. Any company that doesn't want to pay US taxes and employ US citizens shouldn't be permitted to do business in the US. Citizenship should come with responsibilities as well as rights. One of those responsibilities is looking out for your fellow citizens.
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I don't agree with you. I think smart kids can learn this from adults outside their family, but I don't have the qualifications or the facts to prove it, so I'll back off for now.
I was a selfish teenager. I was a selfish young man, too. I'm slowly getting better as I age.
Also, it's supposed to be Lilith's Heart-shaped Ass. Slashdot truncated it. *grumble*
It doesn't take that long to figure out you're a troll. The name "Anonymous Coward" all but guarantees it.
I'd love to shut down the public schools, but don't sell me any of that shit about the free market or the invisible hand. I'm an atheist, and to me the market is just another imaginary god. Compulsory public education is a mass violation of individual rights (those of the students compelled to attend). That is reason enough to shutter them.
Having done time in a "gifted and talented" program in elementary school, I think the best thing the schools can do for top performers is give 'em a library card. Turn 'em loose once they know how to read and work with a card catalog and a search engine. Smart kids don't need to socialize with kids their own age. They need to socialize with the adults they'll eventually become.
Post your real name and mailing address, and I'll mail you a check. Otherwise, fuck off.
The WSJ article doesn't offer any value, either. It's just typical corporatist propaganda from Rupert Murdoch -- the modern Gail Wynand. #WeDontReadWynand
Except critical thinking doesn't really work that way.
I wouldn't be surprised, but we could fix it by refusing to let corporations sponsor people for visas.
Of course they do. They're afraid that kids who learn to think will grow up voting Green or Libertarian, depending on their inclinations.
We need the schools to do it because parents aren't stepping up and doing their job. Chances are the parents never learned critical thinking skills in the first place, the schools being what they are. Parents aren't parenting, by the way, because we as a society decided that making the rich richer matters more than anything else, and now both parents feel obligated to work just to maintain a reasonable approximation of a 21st century middle-class lifestyle.
Corporations aren't people. I don't owe them anything.
I've considered suicide, but I decided to stick around just to annoy you. You're welcome.
The above should read, "Nobody in authority should be able to do so much as fart on the job without being expected to justify their actions -- in front of a jury if necessary." Sorry for the inconvenience.
The government-run schools still run on a nineteenth century industrial paradigm designed to take children and churn out standardized, obedient, punctual factory workers. Fix that first if you care about kids getting critical thinking skills.
IMO, the fact that the establishment is the establishment should be reason enough to subject them to constant questioning and criticism. Nobody in authority should be able to do so much as fart on the job being expected to justify their actions -- in front of a jury if necessary.
Feeling's mutual, bub. Maybe Switzerland will try it, and we'll see how it plays out.
The laws that made American corporations responsible to nobody but their shareholders were made by men, and they can be reformed by men. All it takes is sufficient political will.
Honey, I ain't just cynical. I'm drop dead cynical .
Is that what you tell Republicans who want to bring back the Gilded Age? Call me cynical, but I doubt it.
Potentially wealthy my ass. Every working-class schmuck I meet in the US thinks they're potentially wealthy. It ain't gonna happen.
Canadian experiments from the 70s suggest otherwise. Canada tried it in the city of Dauphin, and people didn't down tools en masse. The ones who did either went to school or were staying home to care for children or relatives.
Then congratulations: you're more ideologically consistent than Ayn Rand was. Have a cookie.
Corporations are already leaving the United States -- and good riddance to them. Any company that doesn't want to pay US taxes and employ US citizens shouldn't be permitted to do business in the US. Citizenship should come with responsibilities as well as rights. One of those responsibilities is looking out for your fellow citizens.