Monday, October 11, 2004
is this what passes for education these days? (link via drudge.)
if so, i think we'd be better off returning to hunting and gathering.
what's really pleasant about this is the fact that it's publicly-funded.
i'm attempting not to think too hard about it because i would rather think about the teletubbies. in fact, when i think of michael moore, that's sort of the image that comes to mind--a dumbed-down teletubbie.
really dumbed-down.
i'm fairly certain that tinky-winky could trounce moore, and apparently the people running this school district, in any sort of intellectual bout or elementary school standardized test.
i guess one perk of getting older is that one can be nostalgic for days when kids at least might have learned how to, say, read or add in school, instead of being propagandized by a bunch of nit-wits who either don't know any better, or, worse, feel so erroneously enlightened as to foist their agitprop automatoning on unsuspecting children who made the mistake of coming to school to learn.
i feel sorry for everyone who contributed financially or otherwise to this travesty of pedagogy and disaster of didacticism. if socrates was a gadfly, these are the mules on whom he needs to perch.
if so, i think we'd be better off returning to hunting and gathering.
what's really pleasant about this is the fact that it's publicly-funded.
i'm attempting not to think too hard about it because i would rather think about the teletubbies. in fact, when i think of michael moore, that's sort of the image that comes to mind--a dumbed-down teletubbie.
really dumbed-down.
i'm fairly certain that tinky-winky could trounce moore, and apparently the people running this school district, in any sort of intellectual bout or elementary school standardized test.
i guess one perk of getting older is that one can be nostalgic for days when kids at least might have learned how to, say, read or add in school, instead of being propagandized by a bunch of nit-wits who either don't know any better, or, worse, feel so erroneously enlightened as to foist their agitprop automatoning on unsuspecting children who made the mistake of coming to school to learn.
i feel sorry for everyone who contributed financially or otherwise to this travesty of pedagogy and disaster of didacticism. if socrates was a gadfly, these are the mules on whom he needs to perch.
