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Posted: 8/16/2010 5:31:46 PM EDT
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My 16 year-old niece is just now learning her states. How fucking pathetic is THAT??? God damn, I was learning about other countries in 5th grade. I specifically recall correcting a kid about the pronunciation of Niger. Yeah, he said it the other way. |
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Posted: 8/17/2010 12:55:53 AM EDT
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A co-worker was told he was traveling to Singapore. He asked me what country it was in.......
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Posted: 8/17/2010 1:32:28 AM EDT
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Sample size of 1 - stepdaughter. Sitting at the table one evening eating dinner and talking about our days. I say something about Hitler and she says something to the effect that she wasn't sure who that was. I asked her if she was kidding, being more than a little incredulous. Her reply was that she thought he was some bigshot during WWI or WWII and wasn't he Russian or something like that? I said "Nazi, you know?" She had no clue what a Nazi was. Had no knowledge of the Holocaust. I'm not sure if it was the teaching or her retention (she's not the brightest bulb in the pack), but I was shocked she didn't know. Of course, this is the same girl that at the age of 13 thought meat was manufactured behind the wall of the grocery stores and didn't know it came from animals. And, at age 15 she had no clue that hamburger came from beef which was another name for cows. It is the way they teach and test kids in schools today. Instead of teaching kids about a subject, lets say WWII. They make them memorize the facts and nothing else. They teach everything out of order and never get past the dates to get to a point where kids actually care so they never remember any of it past the test, I know because I was one of those kids that hated history because to me in school it was just a bunch of dates and names. Fortunately/unfortunately for me I could never learn that way so I did very poorly in school but also learned far more than my honor student classmates. The school system in this country is so muddled up that I've met high school graduates with no clue who George Washington was and college graduates that when told that a person was traveling 5mph couldn't tell how far that person would travel in one hour. |
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Posted: 8/17/2010 1:42:15 AM EDT
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AHEM! All those referring to WKRP........beat ya to the punch. _____________________________________________ ("Never mind! I'm joining you! Say hello to Friar Duck!"––Daffy, (w,stte), "Bugs Bunny") I really, really, really think it was Les Nesman that uttered that quote, not the station manager Arthur Carlson.  IMDB and the episode (at 23:23) disagree with you. ________________________________________________ ("Les? Les? Les, are you there? Les isn't there. Thanks for that on-the-spot report, Les. For those of you who've just tuned in, the Pinedale Shopping Mall has just been bombed with live turkeys. Film at eleven."––Fever, (w,stte), WKRP "Turkeys Away") |
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Posted: 8/18/2010 9:39:38 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Bet she still doesn't know Stalin was orders of magnitude worse... Not a lot of people do, and not many people know that Mao was an even more prolific killer. If I remember right the numbers were something like: Mao: 70 Million Stalin: 17 Million Hitler: 6 Million I certainly didn't learn about Mao and Stalin in school. Hitler however was thoroughly covered Hitler was 11 million. 6 million of them were Jewish, 5 million everybody else who annoyed Hitler. |
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Posted: 8/18/2010 11:57:20 AM EDT
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snip... This particular person was a straight A, honor roll student in high school...has a Master's degree in business management...and, is a corporate director for a national organization. snip... On the bright side... She is VERY bright...And, she is now very interested to learn a little bit about history. So, I am building a list of reading and viewing material for her. I'm not saying your lying, but I have a hard time believing someone with that kind of education didn't know that. I'm 25, and learned all about that during school, numerous times? I agree with SouthEndXGF Not possible to get through that much schooling(if they are real creds) and not have ANY clue. If she in fact did manage to somehow slip through the system and has missed absolutely every D-Day celebration, WWII movie, or cultural reference to Hitler and the Nazis in their historical context, any reading list or remedial instruction at this point is a wasted effort. I think the most positive possibility is that this girl is hot for you and wants attention, so she's feigning ignorance so you'll spend time and effort on her. That's being very hopeful though. |
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Posted: 8/18/2010 12:03:00 PM EDT
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Threads like this make me want to go and lock my safe so I'm not tempted to blow my brains out. 
Decades of erasing history from common knowledge allows those in power to pretty much implement any shit they want. There aren't enough people left to put two and two together and say "Wait a minute, this has happened before!". We're living that nightmare right now. While active duty, I had a chaplain make this statement more than once. "Never commit suicide when homicide will solve your problems" (I believe he was referring to the no forgiveness doctrine if you are too dead to ask God for forgiveness...) You can use it how you see fit, but there it is. Let's not rush to idiocracy. TXL |
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Posted: 8/18/2010 12:06:06 PM EDT
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The reason is that Hitler killed millions of Jews without any provocation.
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Bet she still doesn't know Stalin was orders of magnitude worse... Not a lot of people do, and not many people know that Mao was an even more prolific killer. If I remember right the numbers were something like: Mao: 70 Million Stalin: 17 Million Hitler: 6 Million I certainly didn't learn about Mao and Stalin in school. Hitler however was thoroughly covered The other mass murderers killed millions of political opponents. My guess as to why our government/school system doesn't condemn the communists, is because they feel deep down that it is somehow justified. They don't want to condemn some sort of action and then our government loses an "option" that they wish to keep on the table. They don't want to teach our children that its also wrong to murder people simply because they voiced a differing political opinion, so that these same children won't think theres anything wrong with it when our government starts cracking down on free speech. They teach about Hitler, so that it would never happen again. They don't teach about Stalin, because THEY DO Want it to happen again. Remember, our public schools are run by socialists.
Yeah man, it's all one big conspiracy. I do have one question, are the conservative teachers (including those that are members here) involved in this massive conspiracy? |
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