07-29-2015, 08:10 AM
Good morning all, hot and humid, that's what's in store for us. I guess a lot of other folks around the country are dealing with the same kind of weather. For us, today's forecast is 104 heading to 112 by Sunday, with rain in the forecast all week.
Ah yest, the "Think System". I think what they're teaching is school now is the "Don't Think System"....Why bother to learn basic arithmetic when we have our dirt-cheap calculators and cell phones that can do all that. What happens when these kids are on the other side of the counter and can't subtract one number from the other to be sure they didn't get shortchanged? How is this current generation every going to be able to read or write in longhand when they've now stopped teaching cursive writing in schools? And how about history when they find that many history books change history to suite the author's whims? What would happen to these kids if they were to not be able to go to the mall or access the Internet and cable TV for a few weeks? Suppose their only interface to the outside world would be through their parents and the library?
Have a good one folks, and say a prayer for those firefighter battling those blazes in California, Oregon and other states.
BR60103 Wrote:Don
I was just wondering today if all today's education is done on Harold Hill's "Think System ". (See The Music Man)
Ah yest, the "Think System". I think what they're teaching is school now is the "Don't Think System"....Why bother to learn basic arithmetic when we have our dirt-cheap calculators and cell phones that can do all that. What happens when these kids are on the other side of the counter and can't subtract one number from the other to be sure they didn't get shortchanged? How is this current generation every going to be able to read or write in longhand when they've now stopped teaching cursive writing in schools? And how about history when they find that many history books change history to suite the author's whims? What would happen to these kids if they were to not be able to go to the mall or access the Internet and cable TV for a few weeks? Suppose their only interface to the outside world would be through their parents and the library?
Have a good one folks, and say a prayer for those firefighter battling those blazes in California, Oregon and other states.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD