Comments on: Career advice.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 23:11:45 +0000

Cross multiplication is too complicated for your typical education major to understand. I remember being in an English class in college having an education major in our workgroup. Dumber than a box of shit. And these idiots are supposed to educate the children?!

By: tweell

tweell — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 03:39:23 +0000

The public school systems were captured by folks who preferred indoctrinating to teaching; they methodically removed the knowledge (and how to get it) bit by bit. It took decades to get to where we are today, with college graduates that cannot write a single error-free paragraph or do basic algebra problems. I remember getting frustrated by my English textbook and the terrible way it ‘taught’ parts of speech (the teacher knew less than the book she was teaching from). Finally I found my father’s primer from the ’30’s, it explained everything to me. Now it’s much worse, the poor textbooks of my schooling are towers of excellence compared to the modern ones I’ve seen.

Recently, I was trying to help a grandson with math. He got a zero on his homework. I showed him how to cross-multiply fractions and it seems they don’t like to do that any more. WTF?

By: patriarchal landmine

patriarchal landmine — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:03:44 +0000

“Particularly prone to serious procrastination problems are children who grew up with unusually high expectations placed on them…or else they exhibited exceptional talents early on, and thereafter “average” performances were met with concern and suspicion from parents and teachers.”

By: bob k. mando

bob k. mando — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 14:32:16 +0000

well, when i was asking my question about the lack of apprenticeships i didn’t mean *you* specifically. it’s pretty obvious why YOU don’t have apprentices, ya cantankerous, tetchy, demanding, intolerant, perfectionist old fart.

i was asking why the post war GENERATIONS stopped doing it. because that’s really what you’re complaining about with Doofus-Fred; at the age of 14 he doesn’t know how to learn because, up until this point, he’s been so mal-educated that he may well be permanently crippled.

his *parents* should have already been teaching him.

his *school / teachers* should have already been teaching him.

and after 14 years the result is a useless twat who wouldn’t have passed a 1st grade class in 1940.

this is the result of the “Progressives”, that a child of ( nominally ) average intelligence born after 2001 is so ludicrously incompetent.

my question was, and is, ‘Why have the parents allowed this to happen? What changed sociologically in the post-War period?’

i am old enough that i could observe the contrast in attitude between my 1920s born grandparents and my 1940s born parents. i just don’t have any explanation as to the reason why.

did the idiot box ( tv ) really destroy society that quickly?