First of all, you didn't address my point. Secondly, I fail to see how what I said was psychobabble. Simply saying that people have an inflated view of their own work is hardly psychobabble; it's the truth. It happens to everybody, even me. The problem comes in when it causes people to feel cheated by a certain mark; no matter how much some people want to believe it, the teacher is not out to make their life miserable.
Well, by that logic, I can say that math and physics are easy, because I got 95% or more in both of them this year. That doesn't necessarily make it true.
Penmanship is important, but that's no reason to force people to do assignments in pencil or pen, instead of typing. Typing is better for getting large ideas and concepts across, because more effort can be put into finding the best way to convey the idea, rather than spending more effort writing it down. Writing has its place, because obviously it is less resource intensive, and it is a necessity for some applications, but to overemphasize it is to make a grave error. Frankly, I think that your point is poorly conceived, because I defy anyone to go a month without writing anything down. I've tried a palm pilot for note taking, but nothing beats paper and pencil. Also, if you could do your job for 6 months without writing, why was it such a big deal that you lost some of your penmanship?
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Was it too much work to type out "American" and "British", or what? Seriously, didn't something in your head say... "USian... something about that just doesn't sound right". When you say things like that, you lose credibility, especially when talking about education. But I must say that some of your other points seem reasonable.
The best teacher I've had once said, "Everybody has a right to an informed opinion." I don't know why people think they're qualified to give their opinions on things they know nothing about. Also, don't forget that almost every profession deals with ignorant people making comments. I'm a pilot, and watching the public deal with any sort of aviation-related news makes me feel an emotion that's somewhere between amusement, disbelief, and anger. I imagine it's the same way for teachers.
It worked reasonably well in the USSR from what I've heard. Both from the responses on this article, and what I heard from one of my friends who came over from the USSR (not of his experiences, but his father's), the USSR education system worked well. Your reasoning seems to be sound as well. I'm surprised that this hasn't been tried, given the way the Canadian government (for example) tries to keep down any private healthcare for precisely the same reasons.
It's only because prostitution is illegal that whores have STDs. In places where it is legal, brothels ensure that their customers use protection, and their whores are regularly tested for STDs.
I'm so sick of this slashbot concept that TV is bad. TV is a form of entertainment like any other. It does not inherently make people stupid or lazy; they had those traits before. I watch a lot of TV, but it doesn't interfere with my life. I'm using my summer vacation to become a pilot, and I achieved a 92% average for the past school year, which qualifies for honors with distinction. Perhaps the TV just reveals certain unpleasant truths.
Still, after hearing it suggested for the nth time, I do not understand how school uniforms help anything. It won't stop people from worrying about how they look compared to everything else; all it does is change that focus of that worry from something changable (clothing) to something permanent (physical characteristics). People have tried to convince me many times that school uniforms are a good thing, and I still don't see it. Perhaps you could help me with this. Other than that, your points all seem spot on.
Where the hell did you get the idea that sports are fun? PE is the only class in my 11 years of schooling that has lowered my self-esteem. Sports are not fun, they are a waste of time.
* more focus on physical education. everyone hears about "America becomming too fat." well, it begins in early childhood and could be more easily stopped at that stage.
No. I've hated PE since I can remember. It's a waste of time for 90% of people, and probably has destroyed more people's self-esteem than all other subjects put together. Not to mention injuries and such. The trick here is to find a physical activity that the child doesn't mind. I'll admit that I've been a bit overweight, but I'm losing weight now, and getting much stronger. Why, you ask? Well, I'm learning to become a pilot, and those planes don't push themselves into the hangar at the end of the day. But it doesn't necessarily seem like a waste of time like every single PE class I've attended. If people want to be fat, let them be fat. I assume you're talking about the US, so it's not like you have to pay their healthcare costs.
* bring back "the ruler." much of the current problems in society can be traced back to a lack of discipline in childhood, and let's face it. a lot of kids are brat's now. did you ever hear of a 10-year old saying the f-word in the 50's? hell no, because there would be a fatherly backhand if he did.
The F word isn't destroying society, nor is it a symptom of anything. I curse on a fairly regular basis, as does pretty much everyone else I know. I won't, however, argue that discipline hasn't degraded as time has passed. I don't feel completely comfortable parking my car in the school parking lot, because I know some jealous prat will ding it eventually, and get away with it. This is a symptom of what is wrong with society: the fact that I don't always feel that my property is safe among my peers. I could care less if they swear, though.
I'm in training to become a private pilot, and I use a slide rule on a regular basis, in the form of an E6B flight computer. Trust me, if you're good with a slide rule, it is much faster than using a calculator to find out the same thing. Sure, both methods will achieve the same end, but the specialized tool (the slide rule) will beat out the general purpose tool (the calculator). As always, the right tool for the job is best.
Ah, I see what has happened here... you did badly in one such class, or a reasonable analog thereof. I know people who feel they are victimized by their teachers like this, and (with one exception I can think of), I have agreed with the teacher. Perhaps you aren't completely objective when it comes to your own grade...
You completely forget that computers help many people in expressing whatever it is that needs to be expressed. I have a disability wherein I cannot write quickly, or for particularly long periods of time. I can type fine, and because it causes me no trouble, I can tell you for a fact that an assignment I do on the computer will be much higher in quality than one that I write by hand. Perhaps the problems you see are due to students not planning what they're going to write, which is a problem of its own.
Yeah... I'm 16, and I just got my driver's license. I'm still wondering if I should break the probationary terms (no driving between 12 and 5AM) to get my hands on this one.
I'm considering breaking the restrictions on my newly-obtained probationary driver's license (no driving between 12 and 5AM) to get my hands on this. Or I could just drive up, wait, and sleep for 5 hours in the car...
As soon as the public demands something this much, the supplier can do whatever arbitrary things they want. I'm sure if the price was $100 for the hardcover, people would buy it. They just have to find the right price, and the right amount of restriction, that will result in the highest sales. Given the demand for this book, they could do almost anything. Be glad they chose to be somewhat reasonable. Also: this is not DRM, because books are not digital. This might be RM, but I'm inclined to think that ensuring that your book is not released until the release date is entirely reasonable.
The US will eventually fall behind in the area of manned space exploration, because the Russians and Chinese don't need to answer to the public if something goes wrong, and they are generally more risk-tolerant. I admit, though, that this doesn't seem too original.
How dare that man be in the forest in the first place! What was he doing there when he should have been moving heavy things and discussing his feelings?
Well, if you look at everything in life as something that will somwhow be used against someone, you will be an unhappy person. Child abuse is child abuse, and nothing is going to stop that. The fact is that more people will benefit from this policy than will be hurt by it, and those who are hurt by it no doubt have some legal recourse (threatening people isn't legal).
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First of all, you didn't address my point. Secondly, I fail to see how what I said was psychobabble. Simply saying that people have an inflated view of their own work is hardly psychobabble; it's the truth. It happens to everybody, even me. The problem comes in when it causes people to feel cheated by a certain mark; no matter how much some people want to believe it, the teacher is not out to make their life miserable.
Ding Ding! Godwin's Law!
He's not a criminal, he just does things that are against the law!
When you say that sort of thing, you sound smart at first, until everyone realizes you're an idiot.
Well, by that logic, I can say that math and physics are easy, because I got 95% or more in both of them this year. That doesn't necessarily make it true.
Penmanship is important, but that's no reason to force people to do assignments in pencil or pen, instead of typing. Typing is better for getting large ideas and concepts across, because more effort can be put into finding the best way to convey the idea, rather than spending more effort writing it down. Writing has its place, because obviously it is less resource intensive, and it is a necessity for some applications, but to overemphasize it is to make a grave error. Frankly, I think that your point is poorly conceived, because I defy anyone to go a month without writing anything down. I've tried a palm pilot for note taking, but nothing beats paper and pencil. Also, if you could do your job for 6 months without writing, why was it such a big deal that you lost some of your penmanship?
Was it too much work to type out "American" and "British", or what? Seriously, didn't something in your head say... "USian... something about that just doesn't sound right". When you say things like that, you lose credibility, especially when talking about education. But I must say that some of your other points seem reasonable.
The best teacher I've had once said, "Everybody has a right to an informed opinion." I don't know why people think they're qualified to give their opinions on things they know nothing about. Also, don't forget that almost every profession deals with ignorant people making comments. I'm a pilot, and watching the public deal with any sort of aviation-related news makes me feel an emotion that's somewhere between amusement, disbelief, and anger. I imagine it's the same way for teachers.
It worked reasonably well in the USSR from what I've heard. Both from the responses on this article, and what I heard from one of my friends who came over from the USSR (not of his experiences, but his father's), the USSR education system worked well. Your reasoning seems to be sound as well. I'm surprised that this hasn't been tried, given the way the Canadian government (for example) tries to keep down any private healthcare for precisely the same reasons.
It's only because prostitution is illegal that whores have STDs. In places where it is legal, brothels ensure that their customers use protection, and their whores are regularly tested for STDs.
I'm so sick of this slashbot concept that TV is bad. TV is a form of entertainment like any other. It does not inherently make people stupid or lazy; they had those traits before. I watch a lot of TV, but it doesn't interfere with my life. I'm using my summer vacation to become a pilot, and I achieved a 92% average for the past school year, which qualifies for honors with distinction. Perhaps the TV just reveals certain unpleasant truths.
Still, after hearing it suggested for the nth time, I do not understand how school uniforms help anything. It won't stop people from worrying about how they look compared to everything else; all it does is change that focus of that worry from something changable (clothing) to something permanent (physical characteristics). People have tried to convince me many times that school uniforms are a good thing, and I still don't see it. Perhaps you could help me with this. Other than that, your points all seem spot on.
Where the hell did you get the idea that sports are fun? PE is the only class in my 11 years of schooling that has lowered my self-esteem. Sports are not fun, they are a waste of time.
* more focus on physical education. everyone hears about "America becomming too fat." well, it begins in early childhood and could be more easily stopped at that stage.
No. I've hated PE since I can remember. It's a waste of time for 90% of people, and probably has destroyed more people's self-esteem than all other subjects put together. Not to mention injuries and such. The trick here is to find a physical activity that the child doesn't mind. I'll admit that I've been a bit overweight, but I'm losing weight now, and getting much stronger. Why, you ask? Well, I'm learning to become a pilot, and those planes don't push themselves into the hangar at the end of the day. But it doesn't necessarily seem like a waste of time like every single PE class I've attended. If people want to be fat, let them be fat. I assume you're talking about the US, so it's not like you have to pay their healthcare costs.
* bring back "the ruler." much of the current problems in society can be traced back to a lack of discipline in childhood, and let's face it. a lot of kids are brat's now. did you ever hear of a 10-year old saying the f-word in the 50's? hell no, because there would be a fatherly backhand if he did.
The F word isn't destroying society, nor is it a symptom of anything. I curse on a fairly regular basis, as does pretty much everyone else I know. I won't, however, argue that discipline hasn't degraded as time has passed. I don't feel completely comfortable parking my car in the school parking lot, because I know some jealous prat will ding it eventually, and get away with it. This is a symptom of what is wrong with society: the fact that I don't always feel that my property is safe among my peers. I could care less if they swear, though.
I'm in training to become a private pilot, and I use a slide rule on a regular basis, in the form of an E6B flight computer. Trust me, if you're good with a slide rule, it is much faster than using a calculator to find out the same thing. Sure, both methods will achieve the same end, but the specialized tool (the slide rule) will beat out the general purpose tool (the calculator). As always, the right tool for the job is best.
Ah, I see what has happened here... you did badly in one such class, or a reasonable analog thereof. I know people who feel they are victimized by their teachers like this, and (with one exception I can think of), I have agreed with the teacher. Perhaps you aren't completely objective when it comes to your own grade...
You completely forget that computers help many people in expressing whatever it is that needs to be expressed. I have a disability wherein I cannot write quickly, or for particularly long periods of time. I can type fine, and because it causes me no trouble, I can tell you for a fact that an assignment I do on the computer will be much higher in quality than one that I write by hand. Perhaps the problems you see are due to students not planning what they're going to write, which is a problem of its own.
Yeah... I'm 16, and I just got my driver's license. I'm still wondering if I should break the probationary terms (no driving between 12 and 5AM) to get my hands on this one.
I'm considering breaking the restrictions on my newly-obtained probationary driver's license (no driving between 12 and 5AM) to get my hands on this. Or I could just drive up, wait, and sleep for 5 hours in the car...
As soon as the public demands something this much, the supplier can do whatever arbitrary things they want. I'm sure if the price was $100 for the hardcover, people would buy it. They just have to find the right price, and the right amount of restriction, that will result in the highest sales. Given the demand for this book, they could do almost anything. Be glad they chose to be somewhat reasonable. Also: this is not DRM, because books are not digital. This might be RM, but I'm inclined to think that ensuring that your book is not released until the release date is entirely reasonable.
The US will eventually fall behind in the area of manned space exploration, because the Russians and Chinese don't need to answer to the public if something goes wrong, and they are generally more risk-tolerant. I admit, though, that this doesn't seem too original.
Oh... not again! All my funny movie links are breaking! Thanks for the heads up.
How dare that man be in the forest in the first place! What was he doing there when he should have been moving heavy things and discussing his feelings?
Try "Life of Brian". It's only R, and it's old (meaning probably rated more strictly).
The whole game is pretty much based entirely around mysticism and spirituality. It's just not the kind of religion that Americans like.
Well, if you look at everything in life as something that will somwhow be used against someone, you will be an unhappy person. Child abuse is child abuse, and nothing is going to stop that. The fact is that more people will benefit from this policy than will be hurt by it, and those who are hurt by it no doubt have some legal recourse (threatening people isn't legal).