[Sca-cooks] Jonathan Swift was an Optimist

[chirhart_1]

Is this the cooks guild or am I at philosophy 101!!!!!!!
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From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Jonathan Swift was an Optimist


> >     Actually, this was from Kansas, and had very little of the history
of
> > that state in the test. The rules of grammar, arithmetic, US history,
> > orthography, and geography haven't changed much.
>
> That's true, they probably haven't changed much. Especially since an
> education consisting largely of rote memorization has been removed from
> the curriculum.
>
> One of the most pointless exercises of my time in school was one year when
> they used old-fashioned grammar teaching methods: we had to write out
> every rule in the grammar book five times. It might have improved our
> handwriting but did nothing for our grammar much less our writing. In
> college we had one awful class where we diagrammed POETRY. Guess what--
> nobody there had any more idea of what the poem was about after they
> diagrammed it.
>
> >     I'll go ahead and post it - if anyone wants to take a crack at it,
> > enjoy. But don't feel bad if you don't pass . . . blame the system!
>
> You mean the system that no longer generally uses bushels and rods as
> measurement? The one that has multiple ways of calculating bank discounts
> and levies? A good chunk of the questions here either rely on memorization
> of rules that have very little application in real life (when was the last
> time your boss asked you to diagram a sentence?) or relies on the students
> having memorized data that we don't generally have memorized because we
> don't need it. The rest of it? Can do.
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
> jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
> "Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."
>
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