Kids get everything for school from the internet now.  I bet the get credit as long as they can link to the information.  The probably get extra credit if it is right.  Or is it right?

4 minutes ago, HandyDan said:

Kids get everything for school from the internet now.  I bet the get credit as long as they can link to the information.  The probably get extra credit if it is right.  Or is it right?

It is on the internet, so it must be right!

23 hours ago, HandyDan said:

Kids get everything for school from the internet now.  I bet the get credit as long as they can link to the information.  The probably get extra credit if it is right.  Or is it right?

 

Ah, how true. The old man taught me how to use a slide rule long about the 3rd or 4th grade. Made me a tad unpopular when I had the answer before my classmates could work the problem out longhand. Then my oldest brother bought me one of the first four function Texas Instruments calculators. I don't know what it cost him (he was in college at the time) but he remembered it being pricey (early 60's).

 

Now the answer is just a click away for these kids. However, I have to ask, at what cost? They can't make change, do simple math functions in their heads, or even understand how the answer is derived.

I wonder if Germany, England and Japan are teaching the same ways as we have gone to.

Nope! heavy on the math and sciences. School is 12 months out of the year. and depending where in Europe, you are High School is five years, not four. Most Europeans speak two or more languages...fluently. Those who don't perform in school are directed to the trades and not to college.

 

Here, everyone is college material. Can't read, write, do math, understand sciences, know history, geography or even simple civics. Yet off to college they go...only to get out and learn to say, "would you like fries with that"?

On 9/27/2016 at 11:03 AM, schnewj said:

I try and resist

resist this...

 

21 hours ago, schnewj said:

 

 

Here, everyone is college material. Can't read, write, do math, understand sciences, know history, geography or even simple civics. Yet off to college they go...only to get out and learn to say, "would you like fries with that"?

 

Yep!  Everyone is a winner until they can't pay their college loans.  Now the tax payer is supposed to pay it so they are still the winner.  Dumb as that may sound or they may be.

^{If those were sausages, I would go for it.}

^Herb

1 hour ago, Dadio said:

^{If those were sausages, I would go for it.}

^Herb

they are...

it's breakfast...

11 hours ago, Dadio said:

^{If those were sausages, I would go for it.}

^Herb

how about bacon, egg and cheese...

or bacon, egg, cheese, ham, sausage and cream cheese...

Edited October 7, 20169 yr by Stick486

Dagwood...

ice cream w/ sprinkles...

 

I'm hungry...

2 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

I'm hungry...

So am I now...better just go to bed before I eat something I'll regret in a couple hours.

I got a belly ache just from imagining eating all those goodies at one sitting. LOL

Herb

3 hours ago, Dadio said:

I got a belly ache just from imagining eating all those goodies at one sitting. LOL

Herb

why one sitting...

you got all day...