Typos are normal, but what happened to the education people had in their younger years?? Have you noticed to horrendous spelling and grammer as of late?
Why do you suppose that is?
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Typos are normal, but what happened to the education people had in their younger years?? Have you noticed to horrendous spelling and grammer as of late?
Why do you suppose that is?
Good question.
When I was in school (back in the olden days) grammar and sentence structure was part of your English class. Neither of my daughters (23 & 21) were ever taught how to diagram a sentence in elementary or middle school. While in high school my older daughter took advanced Spanish classes and said she learned more about sentence structure in those classes than in any English class she ever had.
According to one of my teacher friends, it was taken out of the curriculum (just as penmanship was) because it was no longer deemed necessary. The focus has become the material included in the stanardized tests students are now required to pass.
There are still the occasional teachers who try; my husband for one, my daughter for another. But they teach college and high school respectively; the damage is more or less done. Although woe betide the student in my husband's classes who doesn't at least run spell and grammar checks; he WILL take points off for errors.
Well, then Zedex,
Why didn't you catch my faux paux ;)
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Zedex, might I sugges a spelling class
Classical eduction is dead. All students and teachers are interested in now is teaching technical job skills.
I don't need no education. I don't need no thought control.
But dark sarcasm? Oooh, baby! I needs me some dark sarcasm.
I guess that makes three. Pink Floyd is still tops. About this sound, though, a little useless trivia:
In 1981, Floyd played at some outdoor show in England near the Palace. The high tones, percussion, and amplification killed the queen's fish in some pond near by. Pink Floyd was banned from ever playing there again. The song that did it : Another Brick in The Wall.
{ I tried to replicate the effect, but I guess I had some tough fish. They were American fish, afterall. Not some whimpy, snob nosed proper English fish}
@ Bubba Jimmy and others;
I agree, classical education is dead, deceased, decomposing amongst the literary greats that we were once forced to read yet learned to appreciate. My fiance is now searching for private school jobs teaching high school aged youth with the phrase repeated, "I want to teach students that want to learn." I failed to mention that she works in the Bronx, where some of the kids she gets still don't have the slightest clue and even have serious literacy issues. On top of that she is a special ed teacher, so she witnesses first hand the complexities of a failed educational and social system in which we all live.
First they take out music and P.E. Second they remove extra-curricular activities. Third they cut back staff and close schools based on evaluative testing that benefit the overall impression toward the public of elected individuals such as Mike Bloomberg, which is ion no way evaluative in scientific ways, suggesting that a handful picked students represent the total population.
My kid is definitely not going to a public school in the Bronx, let alone a public institution at all. Is it me, or is the overall efficiency of city planning and government in New York City arse backwards? I'm originally from the SF Bay Area, have lived in Southern California for 9 years and have experienced the same shortfalls in education, usually related to geographic area and poverty.
If the kids don't grow intellectually will our economy?