tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post7067069738329159965..comments2023-12-13T16:57:33.142-06:00Comments on Blogodidact: What of Education?Van Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-27913811478674874252007-05-08T08:03:00.000-05:002007-05-08T08:03:00.000-05:00Thought I better stop on in, pick up the newspaper...Thought I better stop on in, pick up the newspapers from the driveway, bring in the mail, change which lights are left burning all day & night...<BR/><BR/>Mizzee - Thoreau was an odd one, much of what he had to say was spot on, as with the quote you ref'd, and then much else was food for Ghandi.... An odd duck (tastes great with the right sauce though).<BR/><BR/>Ben & Ricky, yeah I think we're all right on that one. Still, at no other time in modern history would someone willingly admit, even boast that they got their philosophy from tunes they heard played in a bar. Astounding.<BR/><BR/>And Ben, yes there are a few good Public Teacher's out there, but they are in a minority. My 18 yr old has two of them this year that are quite good, and I can think of three that he's had over the years.<BR/><BR/>My 14 and 8 yr old's have none above barely adequate at the moment, and only one each over their years in school to date.<BR/><BR/>Very depressing.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-29993591968768782132007-05-07T22:02:00.000-05:002007-05-07T22:02:00.000-05:00I hear ya Ben. And I agree.But like I sort of said...I hear ya Ben. And I agree.<BR/>But like I sort of said, then they’re not historians in my book so I won’t acknowledge them that way. They are rewriters. They are a contradiction within term. If someone says 2+2=5, he doesn’t get to call himself a mathematician, just because he’s using numbers. That’s not math.<BR/>I think we agree on each of our points, they’re just slightly different points.<BR/>As a matter of fact, let’s raise a pint to our points.<BR/>Cheers!Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-90177148584544635992007-05-06T12:58:00.000-05:002007-05-06T12:58:00.000-05:00Excellent post, Van!I can easily remember the hand...Excellent post, Van!<BR/>I can easily remember the handful of public school teachers that knew how to do their vocation.<BR/>Without them I probably wouldn't have learned history, math, science, engish/lit and music.<BR/>Those outstanding teachers got me INTERESTED.<BR/>Not only in the subjects but in thinking for myself, critical thinking, deductive reasoning, research, etc..<BR/>My history teacher would often say, "don't take my word for it. Do some research and establish the truth yourself. List references.<BR/>Why are many references reliable, and some aren't, etc..<BR/><BR/>Rick-<BR/>Unfortunately, some history teachers can be corrupted. If they learn to view truth as absolutely relative, and therefore unreliable, then they teach that history is always recorded by the victors (and thus, always subjective to opinion.<BR/>That's why there are a growing number of college history students and teachers that are denying the Holocaust. Or downplaying it.<BR/><BR/>It's not logical, and doesn't make a lick of sense, and it is hard to believe until you hear these leftist and revisionist "histerical historians" speak.<BR/>And they are always fighting to change history. <BR/>How sick is that?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-83287488001531909442007-05-04T21:07:00.000-05:002007-05-04T21:07:00.000-05:00Van,Delicately place your coffee down.Swallow.All ...Van,<BR/>Delicately place your coffee down.<BR/>Swallow.<BR/><BR/>All set?<BR/><BR/>Good.<BR/><BR/>Rafael meant to say, “Classical Liberal”.<BR/><BR/>What a comparison, eh?<BR/><BR/>But seriously, I don’t believe him.<BR/>He started out as a liberal.<BR/>He showed up a liberal.<BR/>There was no “making” what was already made.<BR/><BR/>And to think I almost counted him as the first conservative to convert to liberal.<BR/>I haven’t met one yet. I don’t think it’s possible to get stupider.<BR/>I was a lib once (and a broken record about it). Am I stupider?<BR/><BR/>Actually, I’m not done with him. I don’t think he is a history teacher. He’s making it up.<BR/>I mean there is just no way. A great number of books must have been kept from him, include the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence; you know where I’m going.<BR/>You can’t be a history teacher, and not love history, and then treat it that way (in his own words). Not a history teacher in my book.<BR/><BR/>I guess his degree could be in the history of pastry though, say, Ring-Ding history. Then he’s off the hook.<BR/><BR/>Fine, fine post by the way.<BR/><BR/>By the way, I think you can teach virtue. But you have to get to the kid before anybody else.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589423819039764711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362551.post-1665355555362055372007-05-04T11:13:00.000-05:002007-05-04T11:13:00.000-05:00On Habituation:"As a single footstep will not make...On Habituation:<BR/><BR/>"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." ~Henry David ThoreauMizz Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02325435271880036807noreply@blogger.com