Posted on November 3, 2009 by sphyrnatude
I’ve been noticing a lot of similarities in some recent news and some not-so-recent history. The dark ages were a fun time: ignorance, poverty, disease, and war were the norm. A powerful christian government work hard to maintain ignorance, as literacy and rational thought were considered to be major threats to the mindless dogma preached by [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2009 by sphyrnatude
Most of the kids I know (including mine) are spoiled rotten. Their concepts of “normal life” are insane. I spend a lot of time in elementary and middle schools, and a good bit of time dealing with high school and university students, and none of them have any idea what ‘normal’ life really is.
This is [...]
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Posted on March 11, 2009 by sphyrnatude
President Obama gave a wonderful speech yesterday, which included an overview of his plans for education. He has some ideas that actually have some merit (such as merit based pay for teachers, school/teacher accountability, and penalizing/taking over failing schools). The problem is, his ideas are all based on “improving” the existing infrastructure, when the existing [...]
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