10-09-2013, 06:55 PM
Good evening all.
Not as old as some here but can see a big change from when I was a kid way back in the bicentennial(1776-1976) to now.
You can not blame any one person or one group as there are alot fronts where our society is being bought, stolen and eroded by outside influences. Who's at fault ? WE ARE!!!! (collectively).
As they say life imitates art(music,video games and movies), also what's wrong with todays youth---today's adults are a big part of the problem be they musicians, sports hero's, teachers, parents and especially politicians with their temper tantrums be they from the left or the right side of the political spectrum.
As for schools we (America) need to revamp the whole education system instead of throwing money at the problem hoping that it will solve it's self. First off kids need to be tought how to "study" early on as knowing how to study will make or brake a kids academic record and self image later in life. When I attended DeVry university I was suprised at how many people were in the remedial math class in a TECH school!!! And even a few in the english/writting class(I took the refresher class in english/writting even after having having tested out of it, a lot of good it did me as I still can not spell very well
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Any way one of the classes that all the students took was a class on just how to study, It is not just how long you study but how often you study several short periods versus trying to cram it all in in just a few reads makes the difference as repitition
makes the new information "stick" easier than trying to absorb it all at once. Proof of that is in shows that kids are into and know everything about it is because they are short and are on tv in repitition same with popular songs they are played so often that you can not help but know the song.
OK enough of that as my train of thought has derailed.
Not as old as some here but can see a big change from when I was a kid way back in the bicentennial(1776-1976) to now.
You can not blame any one person or one group as there are alot fronts where our society is being bought, stolen and eroded by outside influences. Who's at fault ? WE ARE!!!! (collectively).
As they say life imitates art(music,video games and movies), also what's wrong with todays youth---today's adults are a big part of the problem be they musicians, sports hero's, teachers, parents and especially politicians with their temper tantrums be they from the left or the right side of the political spectrum.
As for schools we (America) need to revamp the whole education system instead of throwing money at the problem hoping that it will solve it's self. First off kids need to be tought how to "study" early on as knowing how to study will make or brake a kids academic record and self image later in life. When I attended DeVry university I was suprised at how many people were in the remedial math class in a TECH school!!! And even a few in the english/writting class(I took the refresher class in english/writting even after having having tested out of it, a lot of good it did me as I still can not spell very well
)Any way one of the classes that all the students took was a class on just how to study, It is not just how long you study but how often you study several short periods versus trying to cram it all in in just a few reads makes the difference as repitition
makes the new information "stick" easier than trying to absorb it all at once. Proof of that is in shows that kids are into and know everything about it is because they are short and are on tv in repitition same with popular songs they are played so often that you can not help but know the song.
OK enough of that as my train of thought has derailed.