13-06-2013, 09:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 13-06-2013, 10:21 AM by Jim Hackett II.)
How in the hell can anyone get to a 3rd year of a Big 10 University but still not possess rudimentary working knowledge of the English language or US History?
By being a future first round draft pick for the NBA and a starter on an NCAA Final Four contender.... PU is ashamed or should be.
For every great teacher I was given gifts from, I had to tolerate 10 people that should never have been teachers.
Some I paid for the junk, some my parents' taxes paid for.
As example: One teacher encouraged me to read anything and everything I desired.
Grades were up and extra credit was free as I was gonna read things anyhow, I'll take the gravy for free.
I was reading funny papers long before K thru 1.
Other teachers forbid extra reading insisting on adherence to a syllabus I guess. What the heck?
More could be conveyed in a hour from the gifted teachers than from a semester of the quasi-fascist instructors.
The most brilliant person I have ever known taught college level astro-physics and had the gift to teach and convey his knowledge to even dummies like me. It is rare and memorable to have known teachers like that.
Others passed the love of History and Poly/Sci.
Today after Bu$h's 'all poor children left out', public "education" in the US consists of teaching to the tests.
Teachers hate this crap as I hear it.
Steal the money from public schools, public works programs and give it to the DOD and Intell houses.
That's the USGovernment way now.
And some wonder why Johnny can't read.
Seemingly the parents fumbled the handoff too.
Because he didn't know he had to educate himself,
his instructors left that out and the teachers had already quit for better pay.
Sometimes to teach at the taxpayer subsidized "charter school" scam, or at the private school down the road where the wealthy live behind guarded gates.
The public school system and TV child-sitters as they stand now are not capable of the task of education of the public.
Education should never be a class issue, but it is in America.
Education is the excuse tool used to separate the classes.
Jim
Me? I liked working outdoors with my hands and my mind.
But I still didn't sleep in class very often.
In effect I chose the life, not being a ghost.
By being a future first round draft pick for the NBA and a starter on an NCAA Final Four contender.... PU is ashamed or should be.
For every great teacher I was given gifts from, I had to tolerate 10 people that should never have been teachers.
Some I paid for the junk, some my parents' taxes paid for.
As example: One teacher encouraged me to read anything and everything I desired.
Grades were up and extra credit was free as I was gonna read things anyhow, I'll take the gravy for free.
I was reading funny papers long before K thru 1.
Other teachers forbid extra reading insisting on adherence to a syllabus I guess. What the heck?
More could be conveyed in a hour from the gifted teachers than from a semester of the quasi-fascist instructors.
The most brilliant person I have ever known taught college level astro-physics and had the gift to teach and convey his knowledge to even dummies like me. It is rare and memorable to have known teachers like that.
Others passed the love of History and Poly/Sci.
Today after Bu$h's 'all poor children left out', public "education" in the US consists of teaching to the tests.
Teachers hate this crap as I hear it.
Steal the money from public schools, public works programs and give it to the DOD and Intell houses.
That's the USGovernment way now.
And some wonder why Johnny can't read.
Seemingly the parents fumbled the handoff too.
Because he didn't know he had to educate himself,
his instructors left that out and the teachers had already quit for better pay.
Sometimes to teach at the taxpayer subsidized "charter school" scam, or at the private school down the road where the wealthy live behind guarded gates.
The public school system and TV child-sitters as they stand now are not capable of the task of education of the public.
Education should never be a class issue, but it is in America.
Education is the excuse tool used to separate the classes.
Jim
Me? I liked working outdoors with my hands and my mind.
But I still didn't sleep in class very often.
In effect I chose the life, not being a ghost.
Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON