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...
Driving toward the Oakland Bridge, I felt my brain percolate. This just sorta jumped in…
Regurgicate (v.)
Regurgication (intang. n.)
The verb is, obviously, providing one or several persons with the intangible noun. Our definition of the verb can conclude there, so we shall concentrate our definition on the intangible noun.
A regurgication is an education dealing entirely with either muscle-memory, memorized verbiage, memorized glossary entries, foreign language accents, or anything else that is entirely separated from command of the topical concepts. Accomplished scholars who have fulfilled all the requirements of their regurgication will be able to reliable pass entrance exams, questionnaires and interviews, so long as none of these challenges demand too much by way of what’s called “thinking on your feet.” But they won’t be able to detect contradictions in the material, nor will they be able to respond intelligently to someone else who has found such a contradiction.
In other words, the beneficiary of a good, solid regurgication is fit to replace an audio recording device, and not too much else. He or she may have what it takes to think things out, but this particularly faculty has not been tested, nor has it been strengthened, in the regurgication process.
That there’s an important word. We needed to have it invented a long, long time ago, to describe what’s been happening in a lot of places. Oh well, better late than never.
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I have called the curriculum that relies upon this type of instruction a “Vomitoria” for many years
- Fai.Mao | 09/05/2013 @ 21:13I love it! Most of what is now called “teaching to the test” falls under regurgication. It’s not even the old problem of the things they know not being so. They know things, and the things they know are so, but there’s no connection between them, and the ability to make those connections has atrophied (or been actively handicapped).
- Severian | 09/06/2013 @ 06:08[…] Morgan Freeberg has a neologism for us: […]
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