Yes, of course. But in the culture at the time, literacy was greatly prized. Now it is considered a nuisance.
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But Bill, I've heard you giggling with glee in these forums that you live o n an isolated island, and don't have to suffer the consequences of your silly theories.
The failure of public schools in the US is testified in many places. I volunteered to tutor HS grads a while ago. You see, the community colleges won't let them in until they pass some tests, because many are useless despite the HS diploma. So I tutored in "fractions," something I learned as a kid in the 3rd and 4th grades. After talking for an hour and a half, it dawned on me gradually that they didn't know what a simple fraction WAS. Like you take 1/3 of 9 - what is the idea? They had no idea. So I was shocked, let me tell you. ANd I started a stealth poll, asking people in public places the question: "Hey, I'm sizing a rug, do you happen to know what 2/3 of 18 is?" Few could answer.
Holy shit. :) Public schools are the most destructive force in society today. Now Bill Gates wants to foist off a Common Core curriculum which increases ignorance exponentially.
You're lucky they let you tutor. I offered to teach, _for_free_, a technician course at the local community college, but was turned down because I didn't have a teaching certificate... never mind my BSEE from MIT and my MSEE from ASU. ...Jim Thompson
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neither of those says anything about whether you are any good at teaching
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That's what you get with unions. Protectionism.
I had past teaching experience at a private school for technicians... all my class (those that survived :-) got jobs at Motorola, Sperry or Honeywell (I personally hired the best student, Jim Foster, who stayed as my technician and documentation secretary for nearly 30 years). Most of my class were high school drop-outs... I even managed to teach them some rudimentary Algebra ;-)
Most of those who hold teaching certificates can't teach math other than reading from the book :-( ...Jim Thompson
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Yep. The President of the NEA is on record as saying they'll worry about students as soon as they belong to the union :-( ...Jim Thompson
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well.
d people have this ignorance as well. Their ignorance just more refined. It's as hard to define ignorance as it is to define intelligence.
Ignorance is defined by what the subject don't know - which means that you have to specify the area where the subject is either ignorant or knowledgea ble. It's much better defined than intelligence, but Jim Thompson seems to think that he can talk about "ignorance" in isolation, without specifying w hat the people to whom objects are ignorant about.
muses me... while watching some history about the Civil War... the letters from soldiers back to their families illustrate a greater literacy than we have today :-(
The truly ignorant soldiers from back then couldn't write, so we don't have their letters.
olunteered to tutor HS grads a while ago. You see, the community colleges won't let them in until they pass some tests, because many are useless des pite the HS diploma.
4th grades. After talking for an hour and a half, it dawned on me gradual ly that they didn't know what a simple fraction WAS. Like you take 1/3 of 9 - what is the idea? They had no idea.eople in public places the question: "Hey, I'm sizing a rug, do you happen to know what 2/3 of 18 is?"
I'd certainly be surprised if somebody asked me that - I'd figure that they were nuts and give them a wide berth.
On a more general level, the US is a very unequal country, and people with lower social status rapidly learn not to risk looking clever in front of th eir betters
day. Now Bill Gates wants to foist off a Common Core curriculum which inc reases ignorance exponentially.
High levels of inequality in a society don't help the education system. It' s unlikely the Common Core curriculum will help the US much if it can't get it's income inequality back down the levels of the 1970, or lower.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Nor does a teaching certificate.
Actually, a teaching certificate does certify a certain minimal competence.
No academic qualification tells the whole story, but they are better than nothing.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Maybe it was the "free" part that scared them off?
I didn't know that community colleges required a teaching certificate. My recollection is that teaching certificates are only required for public schools. What state was this in? May be a union thing.
Joe Gwinn
They were more interested in my Engineering license than my (nonexistent) teaching certificate when I looked into this.
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