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maindawg

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10. the education industry is a rachet

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 04:12 AM

Jan 2013

You should go try and read just one text book from a century ago. I have three of those small brown text books from that era. History , German, and the other is like animals and biology.
I work in the schools with all ages of children. I can tell you that the text book are garbage. The way they teach now is by method. They will have about 40 or 50 lessons to complete. So they have to be easy enough to accomplish that goal. They teach the test.
College is very expensive, and while I agree that education can be a for profit venture, it should be free also. Free education is the bulwork of a strong society. If you wish to educated, you must do it yourself.

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I ran across my old high school history book today. It is nearly 40 years old. [View all] Brigid Jan 2013 OP

I guess it's more important that student's pass than learn. Kablooie Jan 2013 #1

+32,000,000 CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #2

Do you live in Albaqerqi, N.M.? Jenoch Jan 2013 #7

Hey that's one I did get right on geography tests newfie11 Jan 2013 #14

I just say in phonetically hfojvt Jan 2013 #32

Ironically ... CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #24

It's Albuquerque! I know because we lived there when my Dad was stationed at ... 11 Bravo Jan 2013 #31

My brother's best friend's father died last year Jenoch Jan 2013 #43

I guess I live in a special place.... ReRe Jan 2013 #15

My daughter went to community college Freddie Jan 2013 #16

Your post is ironic. WinkyDink Jan 2013 #18

... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #22

+'1 (n't) Nye Bevan Jan 2013 #30

ironic post. HiPointDem Jan 2013 #46

Students are capable of more Karia Jan 2013 #3

Yep, you can blame Texas... awoke_in_2003 Jan 2013 #23

I was really surprised how dumbed down my college English composition class was liberal_at_heart Jan 2013 #4

I've learned more through the Internet than I did in my standardized testing factory. nt Comrade_McKenzie Jan 2013 #5

A lot of students at my community college need remedial work. Brigid Jan 2013 #6

What college level history class are you taking? BainsBane Jan 2013 #8

This is a freshman-level American history class. Brigid Jan 2013 #9

I remember my American history class Jenoch Jan 2013 #21

the education industry is a rachet maindawg Jan 2013 #10

A rachet, eh? MineralMan Jan 2013 #20

Here you go > LOL BlueJazz Jan 2013 #27

Nah. That is a ratchet. MineralMan Jan 2013 #42

Then there's the "racket"... KansDem Jan 2013 #52

Often spelled with two "ts", though. Rackett. MineralMan Jan 2013 #55

Hey! I played a little recorder and viola da gamba! KansDem Jan 2013 #56

I think it rhymes with "sachet." Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #28

�It says sprocket not socket!� progressoid Jan 2013 #44

another ironic post. HiPointDem Jan 2013 #47

textbooks can be made more quickly and easily for tablets ZRT2209 Jan 2013 #11

until schools have the funding to make sure students ALL students have a computer both at home and sad-cafe Jan 2013 #35

One of the things I managed to snagged when my last grandparent died Warpy Jan 2013 #12

It looks like you have a handle on the current situation. RC Jan 2013 #38

Democracy depends on educated middle class. ErikJ Jan 2013 #13

Fox Noose Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #29

So true Yo_Mama Jan 2013 #17

Read a TIME or NEWSWEEK from the two eras. The current guises deserve extinction. WinkyDink Jan 2013 #19

Agreed. (nt) Paladin Jan 2013 #33

Read a Vanity Fair or Harpers article from the mid 90s datasuspect Jan 2013 #57

When I was in fifth and sixth grade, we read Junior Scholastic every week Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2013 #25

Graduated HS in 1966 HockeyMom Jan 2013 #26

I remember when madokie Jan 2013 #34

Because Students now use picture books Riftaxe Jan 2013 #36

Kids These Days Suck, episode 713857918! Posteritatis Jan 2013 #37

It is not the kids & it is not the teachers Karia Jan 2013 #39

+1 HiPointDem Jan 2013 #49

A certain story of a wizard s read by kids in the UK nadinbrzezinski Jan 2013 #40

the average 6 year old in the uk is reading harry potter, is it? lol. HiPointDem Jan 2013 #50

I bought some books at an estate sale and tucked inside one of them was Doremus Jan 2013 #41

Who is Tecumseh? progressoid Jan 2013 #45

people can't read anymore? why are we here? HiPointDem Jan 2013 #48

I'm probably the only person who uses correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar in text messages NBachers Jan 2013 #51

You still have a high-school textbook? KansDem Jan 2013 #53

i have my mothers school books from the early 1900`s madrchsod Jan 2013 #54