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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:50 PM Original message |
A Generation Who Doesn't Know HOW to Think |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. I don't know if it is by design, but certainly the result is there. |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
67. At least they know how to post on internet forums. |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. I agree with you; it's up to parents to teach our children how to think. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
75. It always has been and will be the parents' job to teach our kids how to think |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:52 AM Response to Reply #75 |
115. i agree. nt |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:25 AM Response to Reply #75 |
134. BS...It takes a village. |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:16 PM Response to Reply #134 |
198. After school, life takes over... |
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Newsjock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
3. But what can we do about it? |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Turn them on to Carl Sagan and his Baloney test kit that and a little |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. IMO, it is up to the government to fix it. |
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watrwefitinfor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:53 AM Response to Reply #3 |
130. Run for a position on your local school board! |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
4. Apt Androids, serving the 12%. Free thinking is a form of Terrorism and |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:54 PM Response to Original message |
5. Exactly right... |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Half of them want the 1950's the others want antebellum. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
73. Many school boards in California are not republican |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
6. Thank the Republicans for this |
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Adam R (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
10. "Growing up, it all seems so one-sided..... |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Indeed. Welcome to DU. |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:21 AM Response to Reply #11 |
124. Indeed? That song was written in 1982 - not this generation. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #124 |
157. It is a steady digression. |
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jotsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
37. And a public divided leaves the corporatocracy delighted. |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:07 PM Response to Original message |
12. When was critical thought valued? |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Maybe never. |
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Peggesis1 (133 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
92. critical thinking in corporate-dominated US |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 10:10 PM Response to Reply #92 |
214. If you don't want their suggestions that might help you heal |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:24 AM Response to Reply #13 |
125. Based on what? |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:52 AM Response to Reply #125 |
164. I have nothing other than what I have seen. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:10 PM Original message |
Since ancient time ,then there was the Civil war ,FDR really good at it.. |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:04 PM Response to Reply #12 |
70. I do remember, but it wasn't particularly common. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 01:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
172. 50s and 60s.... |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
14. Are you saying that the program could just as well been named |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Oh, I like that better. |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I see a bumper sticker in there somewhere..... n't |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 02:15 AM Response to Reply #15 |
206. Brilliant! |
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Patchuli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:14 PM Response to Original message |
17. If the gov't would quit focusing on tests |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I know a lot of good teachers who are getting fed up |
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Patchuli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:46 AM Response to Reply #18 |
102. And they are wasting students' time!! |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Pigeon holing is easier than discerning. |
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Patchuli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:45 AM Response to Reply #20 |
101. I just know what students tell me |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
19. Yawn, another BS slam on us Millennials. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Nope ,I was born in 1957 and I get all kinds of things from people under 30 |
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Mixopterus (568 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:24 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Heh |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:28 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Utilizing is all they want ,Knowledge for it's own sake your right ,Metaphysics! |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:19 PM Response to Reply #22 |
87. You might wanna keep an eye on some of your peers' critical thought around here |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:05 AM Response to Reply #87 |
109. A constant hashing out ,thats why I'm here ,Everything is debated |
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Mixopterus (568 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:21 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Indeed |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:31 PM Response to Reply #19 |
30. I am 29! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:52 PM Response to Reply #30 |
42. If you think older generations were more critical than we are you are deluding yourself. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:13 PM Response to Reply #42 |
52. I know little about the 60s. But, I have seen a change in my lifetime. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:07 AM Response to Reply #52 |
111. Ronnie Ray-guns tried to make thinking unfashionable in the 80's |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:35 AM Response to Reply #52 |
126. So you're basing this conclusion upon the word of a few people |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:03 AM Response to Reply #42 |
120. Thank you! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:32 PM Response to Reply #42 |
200. You understand the difference between "critical thinking" and "more critical," right? |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:59 PM Response to Reply #19 |
45. The Democrat that we have in the WH |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:20 PM Response to Reply #45 |
57. YAWN! |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 01:31 PM Response to Reply #57 |
173. Now there is some critical thinking ! |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:52 PM Response to Reply #173 |
188. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they are "DLC corporate whores" |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 12:35 AM Response to Reply #188 |
202. The New Team: |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #45 |
80. Obama rejected the DLC |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 01:13 AM Response to Reply #80 |
103. So who is his Secretary of State then? |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
78. You're a millennial? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:00 PM Response to Reply #78 |
189. The brain thing sounds like pseudoscience to me. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
21. And to think many of us waited years for * to leave office so that NCLB would be kicked to the curb. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:25 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. It will be easier now ,but the 12% need sheep not Emanuel Kant |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
24. With regard to shaping "public opinion" and "manufacturing consent" .... |
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thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
76. You have to take a test to be in Mensa |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
27. It sucks, but several other countries also mainly rely on testing, testing, testing. |
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Beer on a stick (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:28 PM Response to Original message |
29. There was no Golden Age when critical thinking was valued. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:31 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Yes there was. |
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Beer on a stick (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Not in our country, or it's educational system. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:34 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Can't argue with that. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #32 |
88. Ah, yes, pre-Revolutionary France, that bastion of universal literacy and education.. (nt) |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:37 AM Response to Reply #88 |
127. Perhaps we should model our education system after that of 18th century France. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 01:05 PM Response to Reply #127 |
171. Heaven knows the literacy rates are heading that way... (nt) |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:45 PM Response to Reply #29 |
79. Bullshit |
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Beer on a stick (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:53 PM Response to Reply #79 |
94. Bullshit? Fine, when was this Golden Age, Professor? |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:16 AM Response to Reply #94 |
96. Ginger or MaryAnne? |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:38 AM Response to Reply #96 |
128. When? |
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Beer on a stick (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:09 AM Response to Reply #128 |
147. Don't expect an intelligent, cogent answer. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:25 PM Response to Reply #147 |
199. You fool no one, Anchovies on a stick |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:31 PM Response to Original message |
31. I've met plenty of Boomers and Gen-Xers |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:33 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Look at what thought did to the thinker. |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:37 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. I might add these thoughts are usually |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:43 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Now thats Critique thinking,, not Critical thinking ,mater of opinion as |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:55 PM Response to Reply #38 |
66. That's true |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #31 |
179. astute |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
39. I agree!!!! |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Taker ease ,things change. |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:08 PM Response to Reply #40 |
167. seems the only |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 06:06 AM Response to Reply #167 |
208. And it's ambiguous ,I know what you mean as far it being a negative thing |
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Tashca (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:52 PM Response to Original message |
41. Brave New World |
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Kievan Rus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
43. Too many minds brainwashed by the hypercapitalist agenda |
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BillDU (231 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
44. I taught myself how to think |
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Harry Monroe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 08:59 PM Response to Original message |
46. "Leave all thought behind, ye who enter here" |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
47. I personally think your OP is bullshit. But what do I know? I'm just a robot. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:07 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. Still taking yourself O So Seriously, I see. |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:13 PM Response to Reply #50 |
53. I wouldn't have it any other way. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #50 |
56. Don't worry, I acted the same way in my first year of college, too! |
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armyowalgreens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:22 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. Unfortunately, this is my second year. It must be permanent. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #58 |
61. Ruh-roh... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #47 |
54. LOL!, +1 |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:03 AM Response to Reply #47 |
119. i hear these complaints so often. i look at my boys, not even close. then i think |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #119 |
144. The Zeitgeist |
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TxRider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
48. I don't know |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:11 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. Oh absolutely. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
49. On the other hand, Jon Stewart and Colbert are doing a fantastic job! |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #49 |
55. How right you are. |
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bobbolink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:32 PM Response to Reply #55 |
59. It doesn't excuse the mess in the schools, but at least they are a shining light in that morass.... |
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obliviously (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:33 PM Response to Original message |
60. I wasn't aware there was that big of a problem but |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:05 PM Response to Reply #60 |
82. They are required to teach to the test to get the scores to get the |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:44 PM Response to Original message |
62. I disagree. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. It's not really narcissism to point out that our schools no longer teach |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:54 PM Response to Reply #63 |
65. It is, but I was focusing on the OP's third paragraph. |
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Telly Savalas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:53 AM Response to Reply #63 |
131. When I was in elementary school my math curriculum was based on rote drilling |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:40 AM Response to Reply #131 |
159. Drilling is an excellent way to commit stuff to memory. The Chinese |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:07 PM Response to Reply #62 |
83. I will be honest with you. |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:27 PM Response to Reply #83 |
90. But what do you base this on? |
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NuttyFluffers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
64. the kids are all right. they just got lots of energy to release, like there's no tomorrow. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:00 AM Response to Reply #64 |
107. YA,exactly it's like nitro in a Volkswagen. |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 09:57 PM Response to Original message |
68. Kids these days have perfectly fine critical thinking skills. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #68 |
84. I agree with not being well rounded. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:56 AM Response to Reply #84 |
116. what do you mean well rounded? with internet and info at finger tip |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:01 AM Response to Reply #116 |
118. The potential to access is there, but I don't see a great motivation |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:13 AM Response to Reply #118 |
123. well, now. if we are talking willingness to work, ability to work.... that is a whole different |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:27 AM Response to Reply #116 |
150. Well there's just such a glut of information |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #150 |
163. hence, the parent doing their job. all it takes is some time. and listening. nt |
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TCJ70 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
69. This is certainly not true... |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
71. I am 33 and have 4 and 5 year old daughters. They are ahead of where I was at that age. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 06:12 AM Response to Reply #71 |
210. And as far a their attention span ,it's taxed more than any other Generation |
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HappyCynic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
72. No child left behind |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
74. three decades ago parents had the same complaint. i taught kids critical thinking before the got |
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rationalcalgarian (140 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
77. Think back to the Reagan era |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 10:51 PM Response to Original message |
81. The real demarcation is Are You A Reader Or Not? |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:10 PM Response to Reply #81 |
85. Great point. It is literacy and use of it. |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:17 PM Response to Reply #85 |
86. Reading helps us think and listen and consider and imagine and reflect and understand and converse |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
89. That won't fly in college |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
91. If people weren't critical, they wouldn't need to pump out all that propaganda that they do. |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
93. Funny, I had thought you meant the me generation |
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Prism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-25-09 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
95. Well, this certainly misses the forest for the trees |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
97. A movement begun in 2002 with the No Child Left behind. |
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babydollhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #97 |
217. My kids teachers told them this...literally |
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conflictgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:21 AM Response to Original message |
98. I am raising children to be the exceptions to this |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:28 AM Response to Original message |
99. I wonder which generation most of the 9/11 "truthers" belong to... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
100. You make a purchase at the local Quicky Mart |
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Dulcinea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:05 AM Response to Reply #100 |
110. I asked a clerk about that. |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 02:02 AM Response to Reply #100 |
204. Two points; |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #204 |
212. I AM the working class..... |
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question everything (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 01:18 AM Response to Original message |
104. A few years ago "60 Minutes" had a story about Gen X (I think) |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
105. DU's Trotskyite mob is a perfect example |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 05:58 AM Response to Reply #105 |
106. Perspicacity |
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natrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:03 AM Response to Reply #106 |
108. those people are either paid dlc cyber whores, or, yes, just lack independent thought |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:10 AM Response to Reply #108 |
112. I agree ,the DLC are republican-lite ,nothing to do with Liberal thought. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:49 PM Response to Reply #105 |
187. Oh, SNAP!!! |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:22 AM Response to Original message |
113. Disagreed! Thanks to empirical experience. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:38 AM Response to Reply #113 |
114. Your talking about the difference between Aristotle and Dale Carnegie |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:08 AM Response to Reply #113 |
122. it seemed even in elementary they were allowing kids to express |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
117. A thinking serf is an uppity serf |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 09:44 AM Response to Reply #117 |
141. "All of us are in the gutter ,some of us are looking at the stars" The Pretenders |
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sense (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:03 AM Response to Original message |
121. John Taylor Gatto book |
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Threedifferentones (820 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
129. Well... |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
132. When was critical thought valued? |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
133. listening to bbc this morning talking about student critical thinking in ..... arab countries. U.S |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:07 AM Response to Reply #133 |
146. Why ironic? |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:50 AM Response to Reply #146 |
162. we are talking about it today and lack of. complete opposite of what i was listening bbc. nt |
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Paladin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
135. Just Tell Them To Stay Off Your Yard And Let It Go...... (n/t) |
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JerseygirlCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
136. That's why I encouraged my child to seek one of those |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:11 AM Response to Reply #136 |
148. The Kennedy's acknowledged the dinner table as The main University |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
137. George Carlin: |
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sammytko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
138. Don't think so - i'm an ed. major - we talk about critical thinking skills all the time |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 09:39 AM Response to Reply #138 |
140. Solve any problems or just talk about the mechanisms? B.F.Skinner |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 09:52 AM Response to Reply #138 |
142. i agree. teachers, adm more conscious of critical thinking, working harder to bring into schools |
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newtothegame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
139. Thank god for Hollywood. n/t |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 09:57 AM Response to Original message |
143. Obama is merely following a long tradition of undermining public education. |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:04 AM Response to Reply #143 |
145. How else are you going to make room for Dumb**asses at Yale? |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:21 AM Response to Original message |
149. It's not just this generation. |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
151. The way I remember my education was that I was required to memorize lots of facts and processes... |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
152. My daughter is a junior at a "blue ribbon" suburban |
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Jim__ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
153. I don't know if you're right or wrong. |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:40 AM Response to Original message |
154. Just like every generation before them. |
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Beer on a stick (421 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:47 AM Response to Reply #154 |
155. Exactly. The Chicken Little histrionics here just don't get that. |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:25 AM Response to Reply #155 |
158. I've been through this cycle a few times already, |
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cliffordu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 10:47 AM Response to Original message |
156. Is this the intellectual equivalent of "You kids get off my lawn!!!" ? |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:47 AM Response to Reply #156 |
161. Maybe. |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
160. Too late |
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superduperfarleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
165. Oh good. Another thread where everyone who posts is one of the "smart" ones |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #165 |
169. Is that like saying 'Damn bunch of liberal elites with their damn education'? |
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sea four (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
166. I'm 20 years old & I question everything. Especially the media |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 12:17 PM Response to Reply #166 |
168. Respectfully, I think you are the exception. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 01:34 PM Response to Reply #166 |
174. Wait until your generation is FORCED to buy Health Insurance... |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
170. I don't see a problem with critical thought in my teenagers--they |
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keroro gunsou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
175. carlin said it best: |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:52 PM Response to Reply #175 |
181. I'm telling you Skinner And Mcluhan ,Gutenberg might have been |
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foucaults petulance (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
176. NCLB created pressure for standards-based testing; hence, this problem |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
177. Ex nihilo, nihil fit... |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
178. Schools have never been about teaching students how to think |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:51 PM Response to Reply #178 |
180. That's not universally true. I went to a public high school and English was mostly philosophy ... |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #178 |
190. You are way wrong, IMO there is not enough science. |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 08:10 PM Response to Reply #190 |
197. Please demonstrate my wrongness |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 01:03 AM Response to Reply #190 |
203. There's plenty of science. What is missing is the Liberal Arts. |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
182. Them old GOP Masters want and work for a dumb class...social engineering is over 50 years old |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 03:03 PM Response to Reply #182 |
186. Their with FDR and the Kennedy brothers |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
183. They will be great Employees won't they? |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
184. I'm telling you Skinner And Mcluhan ,Gutenberg might have been |
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JBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
185. The teabag rally attendee demographic data disagrees. |
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democracy1st (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
191. K & R |
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triple point (108 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
192. Thank you thank you thank you thank you |
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Roland99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:24 PM Response to Original message |
193. It's not that they don't know how. It's that they *don't want to*! |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:25 PM Response to Original message |
194. Shorter attention spans inhibit skills needed to follow something and report it accurately. nt |
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OwnedByFerrets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
195. It IS by design. Thom Hartmann discuss's it in detail on his show |
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Locrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
196. critical thinking = the ability to challenge authority |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-26-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #196 |
201. Ding a ding a ding a ding............... |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 02:05 AM Response to Original message |
205. "Young people are dumb! Civilization is doomed!" |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 02:18 AM Response to Reply #205 |
207. It's just left-wing cultural despair. Happens occasionally when things go sour |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 06:09 AM Response to Reply #207 |
209. It's generational ,I'm sure Aristotle or Socrates would say we've been Stupefied |
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orpupilofnature57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 06:19 AM Response to Reply #205 |
211. In The Renaissance of our life ,who wants common sense?We didn't |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
213. Yeah But Roman Polanski!!! |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
215. Interesting thread. Not one person here mentioned the media and how that influences youth in thinkin |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-27-09 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
216. it's dangerous to have serfs who can think. |
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