[lit-ideas] Re: Bug Report
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:49:58 -0700 (PDT)
Lest anyone think this means the rest of the world is a whole lot smarter, it
doesn't. They're for now more clever, superior in math and science, the way we
once were. But they're as oblivious to the all important environment that
keeps them alive and that they have no idea they can't live without that
they're destroying it as fast as they can. Little things like they'll be out
of drinking water in a couple of decades at most and top soil to grow food is
way down and on and on. Instead they're building and driving cars as fast as
they can get their hands on them. Speaks for itself about human intelligence
don't you think? Sorry to be so negative, but it's just reality.
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You betcha. We won't even vote for a candidate because he's too highbrow (Gore
or Kerry). They have to be someone we'd like to have a drink with and who
speaks our fourth grade language and commensurate level understanding of what's
going on in the world and in our own country. We've become the goons of the
planet with shrunken little brains that cause us to fire away indiscriminately
and lose every time. And that's not even mentioning the economic stuff that
flew at everybody from out of right field that may yet cause us to go the way
of the SU. Like Palin says, Nuclr war is bad. It hurts people. Thank you
Sarah for explaining things.
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Bug Report
To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "ANTHRO-L"
<ANTHRO-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 2:14 AM
From Slashdot
"I'd like to file a bug report on the US educational system. The New York Times
reports on a recent study that shows the US fails to encourage academic talent
as a culture.'"There is something about the culture in American society today
which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics," said
Michael Sipser, the head of M.I.T.'s math department. "Sports achievement gets
lots of coverage in the media. Academic achievement gets almost none."' While
we've suspected that the US might be falling behind academically, this study
shows that it is actually due to cultural factors that are devaluing the
success of our students. I suspect there's a flaw in the US cultural system
that prevents [seeing] achievement on the academic front as valuable. Could
anyone suggest a patch for this bug or is this cause for a rewrite?"
By way of contrast, the awarding of this year's Nobel prizes for physics and
chemistry to Japanese scientists was front page, banner headline news in the
Asahi Shimbun (the Japanese-language newspaper we subscribe to).
John
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John McCreery
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Tel. +81-45-314-9324
http://www.wordworks.jp/
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