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Elginoid (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 11:55 PM Original message |
This election was lost in the public schools over the past 40 years. |
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gauguin57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-09-04 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Let's start our own school and college. |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. I teach critical thinking skills in my university history classes... |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Although, I'm not around young people that much, |
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mhr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
4. Yes - Anti-Intellectualism Is Alive And Well In The US |
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jumpstart33 (328 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
5. You know, you have a great point. And it was lost on all races and sexes |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
6. Excellent point. |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:30 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. One other point. It's not just public schools. |
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Elginoid (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Parochial schools in particular. |
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Elginoid (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:17 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Pearl Harbor had it's roots in Commodore Perry's visit to Japan... |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
7. college and university is about making grades |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
8. i think public education was purposely undermined decades ago |
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Bernardo de La Paz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:36 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. This is how empires crumble from within. |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 12:39 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. If you got that kind of education, you were not the norm. |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:09 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. nothing against artists, but they did not do it alone |
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UdoKier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:15 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Well, I don't disagree with your overall gist here, so I won't belabor it. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:12 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. My school district began dumbing down |
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msmcghee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
12. An alternate view . . |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:18 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. And in my teaching career, I saw spoiled bratty students |
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Elginoid (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:24 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I never said that intellectual curiosity leads to liberalism. |
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msmcghee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 09:35 AM Response to Reply #18 |
26. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just offering . . |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
19. Oh, I don't think people have changed that much. |
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Elginoid (387 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 07:28 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I don't think that enough have suffered enough yet- |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
22. Ok. I have questions, though. |
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DeepModem Mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
23. Education in history and government seems lacking -- |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 08:18 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. NCLB at its best |
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randr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-10-04 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
25. Exactly! The dumbing of America |
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