Comments on: College is for Dummies http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634 and miscellaneous Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:34:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mama http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634/comment-page-1#comment-63661 Mama Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:48:45 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-63661 I understand some of your points except that you can't be a doctor if you don't go to medical school. I wouldn't trust a street doctor who had not gone through training and successfully graduated to operate on me. Same thing with nurses who have to give out medications or administer procedures, and pharmacists, architects, and certain types of engineers. Even computer programmers have to read books and learn the languages rules. Of course all the mathematics in school might never be applicable in real life, but it's a kind of brain exercise to help you to think in different ways, different areas of knowledge. Once you become a programmer, you'll never know what kind of application you'll work on. Just like if you plan to be a doctor, you might not know if you will be a cardiologist or brain surgeon. You can't limit your knowledge just to the heart or the brain. You should know the whole body at least. It will be too bad if a computer programmer doesn't know anything about math or chemistry. Stay out of the politics. There is no right answer. Just because there are people who take advantage of the welfare system doesn't mean that the ones who really need help deserve to be banned. You never know someday you might need socialized health care. It's the quality of the people and the people in the government that need to be improved, not the idea of socialized healthcare if bad. I understand some of your points except that you can’t be a doctor if you don’t go to medical school. I wouldn’t trust a street doctor who had not gone through training and successfully graduated to operate on me. Same thing with nurses who have to give out medications or administer procedures, and pharmacists, architects, and certain types of engineers. Even computer programmers have to read books and learn the languages rules. Of course all the mathematics in school might never be applicable in real life, but it’s a kind of brain exercise to help you to think in different ways, different areas of knowledge. Once you become a programmer, you’ll never know what kind of application you’ll work on. Just like if you plan to be a doctor, you might not know if you will be a cardiologist or brain surgeon. You can’t limit your knowledge just to the heart or the brain. You should know the whole body at least. It will be too bad if a computer programmer doesn’t know anything about math or chemistry. Stay out of the politics. There is no right answer. Just because there are people who take advantage of the welfare system doesn’t mean that the ones who really need help deserve to be banned. You never know someday you might need socialized health care. It’s the quality of the people and the people in the government that need to be improved, not the idea of socialized healthcare if bad.

]]> By: Richard X. Thripp http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634/comment-page-1#comment-57097 Richard X. Thripp Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:04:15 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-57097 Thanks Sean! And yet I am in Calculus II now. Down with college. :unsilly: Thanks Sean! And yet I am in Calculus II now. Down with college. :unsilly:

]]> By: Sean http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634/comment-page-1#comment-57095 Sean Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:57:22 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-57095 One of the most interesting and insighting works I have ever read. Thank you so much for your honesty! Brave soul. :wink: One of the most interesting and insighting works I have ever read. Thank you so much for your honesty! Brave soul. :wink:

]]> By: Richard X. Thripp http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634/comment-page-1#comment-27084 Richard X. Thripp Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:30:47 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-27084 Public schools used to expel trouble-makers, but not anymore so they can maintain funding. Both parents wouldn't have to work if not for government largess, including public schooling. Fifty years ago, a husband could support his family with any reasonable job, but now two working adults won't cut it. It's not that we're less productive or efficient; it's the government dragging everyone down. Public schools used to expel trouble-makers, but not anymore so they can maintain funding. Both parents wouldn’t have to work if not for government largess, including public schooling. Fifty years ago, a husband could support his family with any reasonable job, but now two working adults won’t cut it. It’s not that we’re less productive or efficient; it’s the government dragging everyone down.

]]> By: Colleen DIck http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634/comment-page-1#comment-21314 Colleen DIck Wed, 04 Feb 2009 04:33:04 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-21314 I disagree that we should have no public money set aside for education because it is not within every parents capability to educate their children and many families have to have both parents working. But I take massive issue with the wastelands our public schools have become. In any other business arena disruptive people are removed, forcibly if necessary. But in public schools, disruptive and messed up little kids suck up way more than their share of resources & the teachers' attention. The same way kids are required to have certain shots before they go to school they should be required to have certain behaviors down, such as basic potty skills, being able to sit still for 15 minutes, understanding how to behave in a classroom, respecting the teacher and so on. If their teachers document that these behaviors are not present, the child is sent home, and there are special very unpleasant schools that you have to pay for to teach these children basic skills. I guarantee you the parents will teach their kids those skills if they are losing their free babysitting. Then, there is none of this coddling. Once you get in school you learn the stuff or you stay back. How is it that we have kids in 6th grade who can't read? Everybody in first grade passes a reading test to get to second. Then at seventh grade we send them all out to camps for two years of farm labor because nobody learns anything in middle school anyway. I disagree that we should have no public money set aside for education because it is not within every parents capability to educate their children and many families have to have both parents working. But I take massive issue with the wastelands our public schools have become. In any other business arena disruptive people are removed, forcibly if necessary. But in public schools, disruptive and messed up little kids suck up way more than their share of resources & the teachers’ attention. The same way kids are required to have certain shots before they go to school they should be required to have certain behaviors down, such as basic potty skills, being able to sit still for 15 minutes, understanding how to behave in a classroom, respecting the teacher and so on. If their teachers document that these behaviors are not present, the child is sent home, and there are special very unpleasant schools that you have to pay for to teach these children basic skills. I guarantee you the parents will teach their kids those skills if they are losing their free babysitting.
Then, there is none of this coddling. Once you get in school you learn the stuff or you stay back. How is it that we have kids in 6th grade who can’t read? Everybody in first grade passes a reading test to get to second. Then at seventh grade we send them all out to camps for two years of farm labor because nobody learns anything in middle school anyway.

]]> By: Richard X. Thripp http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634/comment-page-1#comment-9375 Richard X. Thripp Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:37:50 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-9375 It's easy to talk about what our public schools do wrong, but that doesn't get to the root of the problem: we shouldn't have state-funded schools to begin with. It's your parents' responsibility to teach you, and if they care about you (as most parents do) they'll do a far better job than government baby-sitting. Public schooling is a mass waste of citizens' money, because it's a monopoly with no competition. You have to pay for it on your property taxes and sales taxes all your life, even if you never send your children to public school. Also, high schools often have a jail-like atmosphere. If you're at school 6 hours a day 5 days a week, that's plenty of time for you to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. All else is secondary, and there's no need for homework. It’s easy to talk about what our public schools do wrong, but that doesn’t get to the root of the problem: we shouldn’t have state-funded schools to begin with. It’s your parents’ responsibility to teach you, and if they care about you (as most parents do) they’ll do a far better job than government baby-sitting.

Public schooling is a mass waste of citizens’ money, because it’s a monopoly with no competition. You have to pay for it on your property taxes and sales taxes all your life, even if you never send your children to public school.

Also, high schools often have a jail-like atmosphere.

If you’re at school 6 hours a day 5 days a week, that’s plenty of time for you to learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. All else is secondary, and there’s no need for homework.

]]> By: Joe Spaghettio http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/college-is-for-dummies-634/comment-page-1#comment-9265 Joe Spaghettio Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:13:26 +0000 http://richardxthripp.thripp.com/?p=634#comment-9265 :grin: I agree with you on this... Especially in Pennsylvania with the PSSAs. All that kids are learning is how to take tests. They are not learning to learn anymore... This is all because of Bush's FAILED "No Child Left Behind" program. If the kids that are in learning support and those same kids score basic or below basic on the PSSAs during their senior year, they will not get a diploma. There is no point in standardized testing. Also, the kids that show that they excell in school get piled and piled with extra work on top of that the normal kids get. This is not right. If you show that you are smart, you should get different work. Not the same work with all kind of different work piled on top of it. What are your thoughts on this? :grin: I agree with you on this…
Especially in Pennsylvania with the PSSAs. All that kids are learning is how to take tests. They are not learning to learn anymore…
This is all because of Bush’s FAILED “No Child Left Behind” program. If the kids that are in learning support and those same kids score basic or below basic on the PSSAs during their senior year, they will not get a diploma.

There is no point in standardized testing.

Also, the kids that show that they excell in school get piled and piled with extra work on top of that the normal kids get. This is not right. If you show that you are smart, you should get different work. Not the same work with all kind of different work piled on top of it.

What are your thoughts on this?

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