Re: Why is science, space, and history so inportent?

In article <d85vgh$j1p$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Andre Lieven <dg411@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>"k-girl15" (guesswhokt@xxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
>> WOW what is so weird about age?
>
>Nothing much, as long as one grasps the concept that people who are
>paying attention, and have been paying attention for a lot longer
>than you, might know a lot that you don't, yet.

Or alternatively, may have ideas that are very wrong but
well established. Unfortunately for our young chum, people do not
come with labels to mark who belongs to which catagory (and may
be a mix, anyway).

I just got back from a 25th high school reunion at the rural
high school I attended [1]. The subject of which teachers and staff
sucked and which ones didn't came up a number of times. In retrospect,
the numbers of duds was relatively small except for the guidence staff,
who seem to have given _everyone_ individually crafted bad advice. At
some point you have to wonder whether the best model isn't incompetence
but actual malice.

>> Yes I am 15 and i suck at school but I is not a big deal!
>
>Yes, it is. Do you want your career to include the phrase " Do
>you want fries with that ? ".
>
>Read Barbara Ehrenreich's " Nickled And Dimed ", which is about
>trying to stay alive on such job's pays.

But remember that she was total crap at it, acting more like
some slumming middle/upper classer playing at being poor than someone
with any experience at it.

A number of daring expose books and films are insufficiently
rigorous, relying on the fact that most people are never given any
education in how to spot weak arguments and lousy cases. This has
no particular bias: people will believe *** is cake, as long as it
matches their expectations.

James Nicoll


1: Almost everyone was in as good shape as they were in 1980 and I had
the least hair. Bastards.
--
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/james_nicoll
.

Quantcast