Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Mystic]

 

[Mystic]

"...and over here, to the right of J. Edgar, is our esteemed colleague, _______."

 

[reddodge053]

C.W.McCall

 

[Shominy]

Be like this guy.

 

[OnTheBlitz]

@:59

 

[Hobie1dog]

all married coupes need to have some form of physical contact every day.

 

[usedto]

all married coupes need to have some form of physical contact every day.

Unfortunately, some of them are illegal.

 

[Mystic]

@:59

It's really no contest, is it? ... 'cept Neil is still -- mostly? -- alive.

 

[Hobie1dog]

from grades 1-12, there should be mandatory classes taught on empathy, rational thinking, and selfishness.

 

[Mystic]

from grades 1-12, there should be mandatory classes taught on empathy, rational thinking, and selfishness.

They seem to be doing a pretty effective job @ imparting that sense of selfishness, predictably and reliably demonstrated by a lotta humans as entitlement and, in the case of @ least one large culture I know, exceptionalism.

 

[Shominy]

from grades 1-12, there should be mandatory classes taught on empathy, rational thinking, and selfishness.

Don't go together.

"Selflessness'?

 

[Hobie1dog]

Don't go together.

"Selflessness'?

the effects and negativity involved so that students understand what it is, and how it affects the global society.

 

[Pio1980]

"Exceptionalism" isn't exceptional, nationalists everywhere are all full of themselves.

 

[Shominy]

the effects and negativity involved so that students understand what it is, and how it affects the global society.

OK- got it now. The sentence still does not make sense, but I am just me.

Carry on.

 

[Mystic]

We got a might convoy.

 

[OnTheBlitz]

10-4 Rubber Duckie!

 

[Shominy]

 

[Spitfirejoe]

from grades 1-12, there should be mandatory classes taught on empathy, rational thinking, and selfishness.

Hey, here's an idea... Let's have schools teach "X". Whatever your "X" currently is. Schools and teachers are CONSTANTLY asked to fix societies problems by adding something new to the curriculum. How 'bout we find a way to make PARENTS do their job? Oh, wait... they aren't under paid civil servants. We can't tell them what to do. But we can tell teachers what to do. They're OUR employees, right?

Sorry - touched a nerve. And don't misunderstand me - I wouldn't mind some attention being paid to the acquisition of those (and other) traits. There was a book I read that was titled "All I Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten". Schools and teachers constantly try to instill those skills, abilities, traits. Social pressures seem to be working at opposite angles to the goal.

 

[NH-MAN]

Oh, wait... they aren't under paid civil servants.

I don't know about that, even in my boonie town of 2,500 our teachers are paid pretty well.
With that said tough for schools to reinforce what is not being taught at home.

 

[reddodge053]

Snow,freezing rain