tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7630027406615032751..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Post 4900 - EducationAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-24361922451198595402016-04-23T16:14:00.687-04:002016-04-23T16:14:00.687-04:00Check out Jerry Pournelle's California Sixth G...Check out Jerry Pournelle's California Sixth Grade Reader. You can see how much it has changed. My mom was in school in the 30s and knew most of what you mention. I was in school during the 50s and got some of it. We deliberately allowed the education system to stop teaching the basics and spend their time on theories. Terihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13382050215676302342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-14859195771656967372016-04-23T16:08:11.148-04:002016-04-23T16:08:11.148-04:00Doesn't mean it can't be reversed. Wasn&#...Doesn't mean it can't be reversed. Wasn't there a period mid-twentieth century, maybe in response to WWII (or was it WWI) when a core curriculum of Western history was required of all students at elite colleges and universities? I know I had it at Reed College in the early 1960's, and U. of Chicago and Columbia I hear still maintain it in a reduced form. I would be happy if only our governing elites knew more about the human struggle from servitude to freedom and the prominent role of Europe in that history. But, alas, they don't learn it in college anymore.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-74055456547634557242016-04-19T15:07:36.595-04:002016-04-19T15:07:36.595-04:00Lincoln's THIRD inaugural? I'm guessing t...Lincoln's THIRD inaugural? I'm guessing that's a trick question, seeing as how he was elected President but twice. I know Shakespeare was performed a lot in the South during The War and thru the West afterwards.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-78935954730377461712016-04-19T00:02:22.749-04:002016-04-19T00:02:22.749-04:00When trying to write a chapter on church history, ...When trying to write a chapter on church history, I realized there were huge swaths missing from the usual summaries: The Orthodox get mentioned in footnotes and the Church of the East doesn't appear at all.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-85010194175860664162016-04-18T22:49:51.589-04:002016-04-18T22:49:51.589-04:00You're right. Even after a lifetime of educat...You're right. Even after a lifetime of education, I can easily identify vast voids in what I ought to know to be well-educated that I don't know at all. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com