Young voters who like socialist Sanders? They can't do the math.
Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 2 months ago to Education
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That list is not an indictment of teachers, schools, race, capability or even common core. That list is an indictment of sloth from the removal of struggle in the lands of plenty. Not only don't we struggle to survive, we don't even struggle to avoid boredom!
This is one of the best arguments against socialism. Take away the challenges from many, and they stop challenging themselves. It is classic Ant and Grasshopper. This is why everyone does not need healthcare or welfare. Everyone needs a chance, and consequences of sloth and non performance.
If anyone thinks a pollution problem is caused by companies or capitalism, they are wrong. It is caused by too many people and no natural or self imposed checks on survival or reproduction.
While "who" is going to pay for "free" college is the big question...the underlying problem is what happens when you give something to someone who hasn't earned it.
We can give all the free college we want, but most of the students who take advantage of it won't be worth a damn. While there might be the rare individual, the rest of them will waste it all away. Why put any effort into something that you didn't have to work for, in the first place?
I did poorly in my later school years (except the straight A's I received in technical courses). Like many, I disliked being made to go to school and it showed in my grades. Had I had to pay for said schooling, on the other hand, I likely would have had far superior grades AND have been a far better student since I had "skin in the game".
This kind of knowledge comes only with experience and I'm afraid the kind of voters who back Sanders don't have any, at all.
That silly reality thing is not their forte.
Johnny what is two plus two?
ummmmm like how do you, you know, work this calc thing, like, again.
Excellent answer you get an A for the Day
To this new generation, it's more important what feelings are expressed, and with what apparent sincerity, than if a statement is supported with logical argument and researchable facts. They can't determine the value of statements, or who they should trust, favoring sources like blog writers who share their feelings, rather than carefully validated collections of data.
The purer elements of education, like the sciences, have been polluted by an excess of social training. In an attempt to replace parental and community rules of behavior with more universal concepts of "social justice," the elements of purposeful ignorance have been instilled, malice aforethought.
Planning one's time, budgeting, driving, one has to weigh odds when making decisions and if you're shooting a game of pool, you need to be able to figure out the angles!
What isn't math? What do you do that doesn't require some sort of math?
Convenience is killing thinking and promoting mental laziness.
In addition to that -
We use counting numbers to help define and celebrate relationships - how long you've been together, anniversaries
We use proportionality - anything the other person does that is annoying will become increasingly more so as time goes on.
We use probability - the more casual relationships a person has the more that person is increasing his or her health risks.
We use stats - Have I gone out with enough people to know this person is the one? Have I done enough as a single person to finally settle down? Have we done enough as a couple to finally have children? (children usher in learning the difference between geometric progression and exponential growth :)
...and so forth and so on.
Simple, basic math is used all the time, constantly for everything. :)
A nuisance to be "properly" dealt with if (when!) need be.......
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The young people I have met who own horses (and have not given up or been supported by parents who rescue them out of difficulties) are level-headed and productive, or have their eyes set on productivity.
One fellow I encountered when substituting English class about ten years ago told me, "I'm going to be a farmer, like my dad." Well, he didn't quite hit that target. Instead he now owns hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment and hauls around agricultural equipment for other farmers. Ten years from high-school senior to wealthy.
I wonder how many welfare-type people he supports? I wonder if he even cares, or if instead he is so busy running his business?
He may or may not have had horses or other farm animals, but he learned how to work land and then how to get out of doing all the back-breaking work by himself. I'm certain that he learned his mathematics, but whether from school or not, I don't know. My impression of his schoolwork, the one day I met him, was that he was merely marking time until he could go out and work. Not "get a job" but WORK.
One local print reporter, age 20, said that her age group should vote for "charisma and hope" - no reality there. She also said she wanted time from work so she could "drink", and no husband, but possible future children to be "adopted from other countries -a rainbow group." She said Obama's election was "the best day of my life". I fear she peaks for that age group. No ability to reason whatsoever!
Your father must have known my father!!!!
Same deal.....a yearling not saddle ready, to feed, train and clean and I was 13.................at 16, cars and girls became priority and I was required to self-finance..................
I am one of those who in early adolescence first had one horse, then two (and a Dalmatian to go with them). My dad laid down these rules: 1)their wellbeing was MY responsibility (and woe unto me if I did not meet it); 2) my school grades to be 3.0 or better (repeat "woe"); 3) my assigned family chores were to be fulfilled without fail (same "woe" again); 4) I was to WORK for my $$$$.........cleaning out horse stalls for other horse owners in our community (that "woe" came with the work!).
Consequence: I learned very solidly that one's life is supported by WORK, first mental, then physical; I went to an excellent college that taught rational, critical thinking as a fundamental to begin learning after graduation (!!!); built a successful career in organizational management; in my late twenties recognized the sanity of Objectivism and spent the next many decades studying and applying it (and learning from my applicative errors).............and will continue until end of life.