Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The one hundred and twenty-second award for BSIHORL (Best Sentence I’ve Heard Or Read Lately) goes out this Super Bowl Sunday to commenter Jim Klein, who says over at Daphne’s place…
The cost of information and its distribution has been steadily decreasing over time, to the point where it’s effectively zero now. This means that the trillions we sink into the “educational system” will be ever more plainly a complete waste of resources. Sure, there’ll always be a value in critical thinking, but that’s the one thing public education doesn’t teach anyway.
Bravo! Although in about fifty years, it will seem like belaboring the obvious. Hell, it could be called that right now.
The model is simply outdated. You reach majority age and then go into this cloister…a cloister with a name attached to it, and therefore a brand. The brand name is recalled fondly by the alumni, and maybe by those who wanted to go there, and simultaneously it is mocked and derided by those who invest their loyalty in its competition.
And then you attend lectures by these professors…you pass if you successfully parrot back what they lectured to you, and fail if you don’t. Your passage signifies not only your command of the material, which all by itself is a mistaken assumption since it’s mostly just mimicry. But also, your raw intellect, your teachability, your competence in tasks both rudimentary and advanced.
You have a diploma, that means you can apply for jobs and win arguments. The central focus of the jobs and the arguments may or may not have anything to do with the curricula…but hey, it’s all good because “they” must have known what they were doing when they gave you your shiny diploma…who is “they”? Nobody knows and nobody cares. If you lack the diploma, are you doomed to miss out on every job opportunity? No, not necessarily. If you have one, are you going to get the job? No, not necessarily. What about the arguments that you win, is that assured? Well, only if all who are assembled to hear the arguments, subscribe to this seventeenth-century idea of “whowever attended the most prestigious institution must be correct.”
If you pay your tuition and get your diploma with your major in — whatever — and still can’t get a job, hey no problem. Just Occupy.
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See Sippican who has figured out:
“If you had to write one big check for the whole twelve years of public education of the 88 percent or so of the entire population of the United States that doesn’t (or didn’t) go to private schools, at 2011 rates of $10,441 per person per year, it would be a check for thirty-three trillion, eight hundred forty-eight billion, eight hundred eighty-six million dollars.”
- vanderleun | 02/05/2012 @ 13:52Oh yes,
http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2012/02/bin-laden-joe-biden-whatever.html
- vanderleun | 02/05/2012 @ 13:52