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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Swartz wrote: |
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| Leon wrote: |
| You write in an fairly imprecise manner, though. I am not sure that most people would recognize the words you use as meaning what you use them to mean. Also, modern dialectical code word? What exactly are you trying to say, and perhaps consider saying so in a more concise, precise, manner? I mean it is just a message board, but we should aim to have higher standards than American Thinker here. |
You are starting to make me regret giving your own inconsistent writing a pass; inability to distinguish between ‘then’ and ‘than,’ making incomplete arguments, etc., and it seems like you are trying to spit back the same criticism I gave you in our discussion about gun crime. So, I’m not sure if you are the right person to be lecturing me about standards and precise writing, Leon. Thanks for the advice though. |
Hello Swartz,
Quick grammar question.
Your comment on 'then' and 'than'...did it refer to Leon's post above? If so, could you please explain the mistake? |
Hello The Cosmic Hum. No, it did not refer to the post above. |
Thanks.
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chellovek
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Neoliberalism is a damn Communist conspiracy to destroy wholesome values like hierarchy, races knowing their place, poor people doffing their caps to their social superiors, and women remaining bare-foot and in the kitchen. We live in a Marxist dictatorship run by minorities, women, and welfare scroungers. Marginal academics in third-rate North American universities are using their massive influence (which they garner from their huge adjunct professor salaries and non-tenured positions) to wreck the entirety of Western Civilisation.
Jeez, get with the message, people.  |
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Swartz
Joined: 19 Dec 2014
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 10:09 am Post subject: |
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Neoliberalism is a damn Communist conspiracy to destroy wholesome values like hierarchy, races knowing their place, poor people doffing their caps to their social superiors, and women remaining bare-foot and in the kitchen. We live in a Marxist dictatorship run by minorities, women, and welfare scroungers. Marginal academics in third-rate North American universities are using their massive influence (which they garner from their huge adjunct professor salaries and non-tenured positions) to wreck the entirety of Western Civilisation.
Jeez, get with the message, people. |
Not a bad assessment. |
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trueblue
Joined: 15 Jun 2014
Location: In between the lines
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| Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Swartz wrote: |
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Neoliberalism is a damn Communist conspiracy to destroy wholesome values like hierarchy, races knowing their place, poor people doffing their caps to their social superiors, and women remaining bare-foot and in the kitchen. We live in a Marxist dictatorship run by minorities, women, and welfare scroungers. Marginal academics in third-rate North American universities are using their massive influence (which they garner from their huge adjunct professor salaries and non-tenured positions) to wreck the entirety of Western Civilisation.
Jeez, get with the message, people. |
Not a bad assessment. |
Indeed, especially when coincided with this...
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Dumbing down the SATs
By Chris Cumeo
For many, the SAT is a hurdle long since cleared. For those who are parents, there is still the specter of having to relive the experience vicariously. Those parents, as well as the rest of the population, need to consider yet another instance of forced conformity and a closing of our collective American mind: the format of the new SAT essay. The original SAT did not feature an essay section, the revamped SAT of ten years ago did, and next year there will be yet another version of the test, with an essay section, but one that has a noticeably different format.
Traditionally, on virtually every scholastic essay assignment, the student is asked to evaluate and respond. As a tutor, I am quite familiar with the rolled eyes and deep sighs at the prospect of writing an essay. However, at its core, the traditional essay format affords each student the opportunity that far too many people on this planet never get: a chance to speak his mind. Whether it is a twenty-minute assignment or one a kid mulls over for several days, the opportunity for self-expression is still there.
But that opportunity is lost on the new SAT essay. Instead of having the liberty to speak his mind, the student is forced merely to evaluate an essay. The poor student must read an argument, often offensive and deeply flawed, and simply determine how the author made his argument – did he use persuasive language, or appeal to logic or to authority? As an educator, independent thinker, and free-born citizen, I find this change in format alarming and wrong.
For those who have not set foot in a school or perused a textbook in recent years, the goings-on in academia might come as a shock. At the very heart of our troubles as a country is the degeneration of our educational system. Instead of being taught to think and to be self-reliant, our students are overwhelmed with biased, negative information designed to subdue them into conformity. You can find support for my assertion in the school curricula and, sadly, in this new SAT as well. We should acknowledge the diseased state of our educational system, and we should push to fix it. Like a tiny, almost imperceptible lump in a breast that one day has the potential to metastasize into something dreadful, so too do tiny restrictions here and there – on speech, religion, and self-expression on a standardized test – have the capacity to grow into something ferocious.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/dumbing_down_the_sats.html#ixzz3r29OQD7o
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