OT! OT! Quote for the day

[R. Steve Walz]

Scott Stephens wrote:

R. Steve Walz wrote:

The fact remains, as everybody knows inside, that self-esteem is
vital to make people trust their own efforts long enough to learn
from those efforts.

Don't confuse self-confidence, self-esteem and charisma.
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Charisma is irrelevant, self-confidence is being sure you can do
it, self-esteem is believing you're RIGHT to do it.

Your petty-ignorant racism withstands nothing
worthwhile.

I think it does, if you remove the race aspect. White-suburban
government education institution (AKA public school) and the social
environment is slightly less abuse than the urban ghetto. Faculty
tolerates bullying the different. Not as some socialist policy to
inculcate conformity
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Nonsense, none required or desired, except to the rule of law.

and a class-based pecking order,
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Total imaginary garbage.

but because they
type of people that become teachers are class-conscious herd-beasts
themselves.
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Ridiculous. They are the most freshly different.

There are statistics for American schools that show interest and
proficiency in science and math drastically falls off after 6th grade,
when adolescents begin fearing being labeled as wimpy geeks by their peers.
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You mean when they discover sex. If groupsex were taught in gym
class with hour breaks for it morning and afternoon, it would
disappear as any "problem", and kids would gladly come to school
and wish to remain there night and day!

Hubris has been the downfall of many aristocracies. The ruling class
think just because they can degrade and dominate the peasants, we're too
stupid to see their game. I suppose many of us are, because Democrats
and Republicans keep getting votes. As long as they can run to India and
China to get engineers and Mexico for labor, the middle class has
nothing to do but die off.
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The technologensia of the US should defend itself by strict tariffs
and measures against permitting companies to import engineers till
there was full employment.

In several decades, the peasant population aught to have enough numbers
and pull to vote themselves a good 'ol fashioned communist government.
Scott
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Yup.

-Steve
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[Stephen J. Rush]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:42:16 GMT, "R. Steve Walz" <rstevew@armory.com>
wrote:

Scott Stephens wrote:

R. Steve Walz wrote:

The fact remains, as everybody knows inside, that self-esteem is
vital to make people trust their own efforts long enough to learn
from those efforts.

Don't confuse self-confidence, self-esteem and charisma.
---------------------
Charisma is irrelevant, self-confidence is being sure you can do
it, self-esteem is believing you're RIGHT to do it.


Your petty-ignorant racism withstands nothing
worthwhile.

I think it does, if you remove the race aspect. White-suburban
government education institution (AKA public school) and the social
environment is slightly less abuse than the urban ghetto. Faculty
tolerates bullying the different. Not as some socialist policy to
inculcate conformity
-----------------
Nonsense, none required or desired, except to the rule of law.


and a class-based pecking order,
--------------------
Total imaginary garbage.

Let me guess: you were a jock.

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mike Cowlishaw
<mfcowli@attglobal.net> wrote (in <c1dbbu$gc8$1@news.btv.ibm.com&gt about
'OT! OT! Quote for the day', on Mon, 23 Feb 2004:

Jim Thompson wrote:
From today's East Valley Tribune (Phoenix East Valley), "The Vent"
column:

"Of course high school diplomas have lost their significance. That's
what happens when curricula is dumbed-down to make self-esteem more
important than learning."

chuckle> I assume Jim wrote ".. curricula IS dumbed-down .." to prove
the point. I think he succeeded [I hope the newspaper didn't
really print that.]

Yes. Everybody would recognize that it should be 'curriculae are...'.
(;-)
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