Re: Here's a Story You Will Never See On Fox News

Tom,
So why don't you teach a few classes full time?


"Shortwave Sportfishing" <onetwothree@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:08:05 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
> <ancientangler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Shortwave Sportfishing" <onetwothree@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:28:45 -0500, DSK <dsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>And it has nothing to do with political bias.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4501646.stm
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>JohnH wrote:
>>>>> You may be right, but I think you lean left:
>>>>
>>>>You "think" anybody who doesn't drool themselves to sleep at
>>>>night over a picture of President Bush holding hands with
>>>>Jesus is leaning to the left.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150663,00.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Interesting article, thanks for the link... definitely gets
>>>>the point across about the health issues... but was this
>>>>covered on their TV news? Or does this further prove my
>>>>point that the best info is to be had by *reading*?
>>>
>>> Funny you should mention this Doug. The other day, I was commenting on
>>> an image on a photography group I have frequented for a long time and
>>> used some imagery from mythology, in particular Campbell's "Thousand
>>> Faces" to make my point. Nobody knew the reference or ever understood
>>> it for that matter.
>>>
>>> I have noticed more and more that the broad based reading you would
>>> think "artists" would be doing isn't being done and that if you make a
>>> literary reference, it's usually met with stone silence - unless the
>>> reader is around my age (60 +/-).
>>>
>>> I have often thought that one reason that we have the political
>>> problems we have is that not enough people are well read enough or
>>> spend their time reading that which is understandable to them, rather
>>> than stretching their imaginations and intellects to at least try and
>>> attain another level of enlightenment.
>>>
>>> Later,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>
>>I wonder if what you're talking about has been caused, in part, by the
>>internet, and the ease of plagiarising such things as written material for
>>college assignments.
>>
>>Two years ago, a friend of mine taught a college course in research
>>methods
>>at SUNY Binghamton. The school apparently has a system in place for
>>spotting
>>plagiarized writing by the students, who must submit their work as
>>computer
>>documents. My friend found that 5 out of 20 of the seniors in the course
>>had
>>swiped some or all of their writing off the web. And, their bibliographies
>>listed books which did not exist in the school's library. Sort of
>>interesting, considering it was a course in research methods.
>>
>>To make matters worse, a few of the students' work was unintelligible -
>>the
>>kids could not write to save their lives. How they got past 15-20
>>professors
>>in years 1 through 3 was a complete mystery.
>>
>>Anyway, some of these people never cracked a book.
>
> I can believe it. Locally, we have a pretty good technical college,
> but all the good professors are leaving or retiring. The new ones
> they are being replaced with are results of the 80's era educational
> process and are marginal. When I sub for the math instructors, I'm
> constantly amazed at how little information they are imparting to
> their students - it's almost as if they are teaching by rote or, worse
> yet, don't understand the material they are presenting.
>
> Not to brag, but I had a recent week long term sub assignment and the
> kids were begging the administration for a new math teacher - me. I
> know the material inside out and can present it properly and actually
> answer questions about the mysteries they face.
>
> I don't know that all means, but it's got to be significant in some
> way.


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