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This program is genius. I found it on reddit.com and have not been able to stump it yet. Though it did have to ask 15 extra questions to get the Borg Queen.
one of the incredibly interesting, odd, or just plain weird things bout me (depending on your outlook) is the variety of people I hang out with.
During this last year, I’ve been able to spend a great deal of time with some professional educators as I traveled around West Texas judging LD & CX Debate tournaments (along with other UIL events). I was speaking to this group of professionals one day when I expressed my frustration over a particularly sensitive topic for me.
If a random person walks into your local convention center while they are hosting an international quantum physics symposium, they are going to leave because they know they don’t belong. You may get the odd duck that decides to hang out and watch, but they will generally acknowledge that they don’t know anything significant about the field of study at hand, and will keep their mouth shut.
However, if instead of quantum physics the symposium is discussing economics, or health care, or education, suddenly everyone thinks that their oppinion is worth something. They still have no training in the field. They still have no actual knowledge or experience in that field, but they think they can contribute. Worse than that, they think that if they can find enough other people who agree with them, reality will somehow warp itself to their perceptions.
I, as a student of finance and economics, cringe on a daily basis when I see people who have no formal (or even informal) training in my field making judgements and policy decisions that will affect literally billions of people. But I made the same mistake.
Here’s my pronouncement on education. Because EVERYONE has their solution to educations woes. The difference is, most people’s solutions deal with vouchers, or putting teachers in charge, or holding teacher pay in step with student performance or some other device designed to raise all students to a satisfactory level of education. I say, let the fuckers fail!
Not everyone is an economist, a quantum physicist, a teacher, or even a carpenter. Someone has to dig ditches. If we have a group of students and try to get them all to reach 70% of the maximum they can reach, you are guaranteed to have problems.
The smart students are disserviced because they quickly learn the material and then we forget about them. They have reached that magical level of “enough” and are left to their own devices. They fidget, wander, and cause problems. We label them – troublemakers.
The slower students are disserviced because they struggle to learn things that are unnecessary. They are unable to grasp concepts that, realistically, aren’t necessary for the work they will spend their life doing (any garbace collectors, I mean, sanitation engineers, out there doing algebra in their spare time?) and are frustrated by the demands placed upon them. we label them – troublemakers.
The only people who profit from this mess are the truly mediocre.
but it gets worse!
as we go along, we realize that not everyone is reaching our pre-determined, unrealistic level of “70% average”. So we adjust the goal in order to have more successes. We still aren’t helping any of the lower levels, we are now disservicing a larger number of the upper levels, and the middle levels are still graduating with their degrees, thinking that they are worth more than the $0.05 it cost to print their diploma.
Why are we (the united states) trying to antagonize iran and goad them in to action? With Clinton’s constantly abrupt rhetoric and Obama’s recent decision to make the use of nukes against Iran a special exception in a policy that otherwise prohibits them, it seems like it is now the goal of the administration to expand the war it promised to get out of to yet another country
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