She ought to proofread the titles of her articles before she tries to label anything else as dumb.
Cynthia Tucker strikes me as educated past her abilities.
lol. No.
I know that anti-educational bias is popular, but no.
This woman is clearly barely-educated. I could write past her ability in grade school.
I am a product of education. That some folks can go to school and remain uneducated speaks more to the failure of government management of education than it does to education itself.
Then again, it speaks to societal values, as I am a product of public schools. Thus, in at least some states, it is possible to wring an education out of the government, if one goes into it with the right value structure.
It is a mistake to conflate government-mandated [strike]daycare[/strike] [strike]youth jail[/strike] "school", as is provided to most Americans, with education, and decry the latter based on the former.
So what made your public school better then others? Was it the teachers or curriculum?
The curriculum, if anything. I went to Robinson Secondary in Fairfax County. Although it's been many moons since I was there, and I'm sure they've added courses since, even when I went the curriculum was better than many community colleges:
http://www.fcps.edu/RobinsonSS/stud_serv_hs/pdf/2014-course-catalogue.pdf
Fairfax County is kind of the exception, though. And even there, most of my friends did not escape nearly so well-educated, if I do say so myself.
I generally credit myself as self-educated in many areas, however.
I do credit my scrupulously nonpartisan government class teacher for being surprisingly forthright, however, especially compared to the American history I was taught.
I never let my schooling interfere with my education. - MT
Education is not facts. Education is how to think, usefully and with purpose.
Recently saw a video of a man who was not very educated in the Academic way, you could tell by his grammar and the way he talked, yet he was smart enough not to let several cops force him to surrender his rights.
That's awesome. Totally relevant to what we were talking about too.
Wait... no its not..
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Yes it is. Because "education" isn't necessarily a marker of intelligence. A smarter person would have got that......
I agree. Except if your following along we weren't talking about "intelligence" we were talking about education.
Specifically around the point I asked of anyone remembers they were taught in public schools and responses were given about EDUCATION.
Tracking now?
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Yes I am tracking, are you? I was adding to the conversation with my belief that government education isn't necessarily a marker for "smart".