Bureaucrats
New York Medical Examiner, circa 1955: He is performing an autopsy while demonstrating to two detectives. He pulls down his surgical mask. "Feel free to take yours off too.Its only purpose is to provide out hack commissioner and his imbecile , rule crazed toadies the opportunity to hand down another inane regulation, as if I might give our friend heremy cold.But thats what administrators do, isn't it?Add unnecessary rules?How else to justify their entirely unnecessary existence?
For the life of me, I couldn't find a better description of bureaucratic activity than this forensic doctor's description of the government's crony system., As he was blowing off steam while performing an autopsy.
For the life of me, I couldn't find a better description of bureaucratic activity than this forensic doctor's description of the government's crony system., As he was blowing off steam while performing an autopsy.
In my case, for example, much of the schooling to which I was subjected was probably worse than nothing. It consisted not of real education, but of repetition and oppressive socialization (entirely superfluous given the dose of oppression I was getting away from school). Had I been left alone, preferably with access to a good library and a minimal amount of high-quality instruction, I would at least have been free to learn without useless distractions and gratuitous indoctrination. But alas, no such luck.
Let’s try to break the problem down a bit. The education system […] is committed to a warm and fuzzy but scientifically counterfactual form of egalitarianism which attributes all intellectual differences to environmental factors rather than biology, implying that the so-called 'gifted' are just pampered brats who, unless their parents can afford private schooling, should atone for their undeserved good fortune by staying behind and enriching the classroom environments of less privileged students.
This approach may appear admirable, but its effects on our educational and intellectual standards, and all that depends on them, have already proven to be overwhelmingly negative. This clearly betrays an ulterior motive, suggesting that it has more to do with social engineering than education. There is an obvious difference between saying that poor students have all of the human dignity and basic rights of better students, and saying that there are no inherent educationally and socially relevant differences among students. The first statement makes sense, while the second does not.
The gifted population accounts for a very large part of the world’s intellectual resources. As such, they can obviously be put to better use than smoothing the ruffled feathers of average or below-average students and their parents by decorating classroom environments which prevent the gifted from learning at their natural pace. The higher we go on the scale of intellectual brilliance – and we’re not necessarily talking just about IQ – the less support is offered by the education system, yet the more likely are conceptual syntheses and grand intellectual achievements of the kind seldom produced by any group of markedly less intelligent people. In some cases, the education system is discouraging or blocking such achievements, and thus cheating humanity of their benefits.”
― Christopher Langan
It has changed, now the gifted students are no longer allowed to meet separately. The concern is the rest of the students will feel bad. The result is
to limit the expansion of knowledge for the brightest. It is one way to close a gap.
Explain connections and pertinence of skills and knowledge. https://youtu.be/yMvpJDbWX_c
My tinnitus was giving me trouble with those kids talking; but when I checked it out in my Netflix, it has English subtitles.
Yay! It's now on top of my queue and I'll likely see it next week. Hopefully, that subtitle listing isn't a lie. That happens sometimes.
Me dino also noticed there is a yet to be available School Of Rock TV show that cranked up during 2016. There's no 2017. Maybe it only lasted one season.
I have had very pleasant and surprisingly adult conversations with eight-year-olds who are taking riding lessons.
He should apply to a technical college NOW. I've known people who have college degrees but no high-school diploma, and also some computer programmers whose only degree is "high-school dropout." He should stop wasting time and go finish his education.
At one time the recommendations would have been M.I.T., CalTech, Purdue, Georgia Tech, Texas A&M, etc. I think that ALL of them are somewhat infested with the "liberal" crap, but I'm certain that M.I.T. must still be pretty good.
It'll be a good plan at this point to get in touch with deans at those schools and ask for advice. If any of them gives you bureaucratic answers, cut 'em off at the knees.
My wife knew a lady who invented a medical device for a Rochester NY company. She later went for a job where she would work with the machine. but was not qualified because she wasn't "certified" on it. "But it's MY machine, and I'm the one who DEVELOPED THE CERTIFICATION!" "Sorry, you don't have the certification."
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If it weren't for nonsensical rules there would be no tort lawyers and hence no bureaucracy.
Justification for non-existent jobs lies in the fact that "government" has a monopoly on force. Anyone can be "guilty" of a "crime" where no criminal activity is present.
Punishing the innocent and rewarding the guilty is how the bureaucracy thrives...and that is also why we so desperately need to pare down government. That approach to life is evil.
Thanks for the post from the 1950's. It shows how long that this nonsense has been going on.
The goal of school should be to make learning fun.
To teach how to learn. To teach how specific types of people learn, and to give them PLENTY of practice.
I tutor kids in math (I am proud that my daughter is a Published Writer and a Math person, going into accounting).
The first thing I do is find out what they are not doing, and explain what Homework should be. The parents do not even understand the math, and cannot tell if their students have done it correctly, so they just back away.
It's literally this simple to help any kid struggling in math:
1) Pre-read the section before the teacher covers the material
2) Make a list of every new word as you come across it (DO NOT lookup definitions, the list is enough)
3) Work out EVERY Example on paper. Writing the EXAMPLE for your self, step by step, organized and clean
4) Waste paper. Do not cram things on one piece. One page=One Example
5) Before Class, SCAN the list of "new words" and say each of them to yourself (like buying a new car = seeing it more)
Also, scan the examples.
6) Follow along with the teacher. YOU will get 3-5 TIMES the value out of that lecture, and stop falling behind.
7) Do EVERY homework problem on a BLANK piece of paper. Write the TYPE of problem on the top of the page. Write the problem itself (this is key for Recognition/Classification). Then write the answer, step by step. Write any insights. START on a fresh page if you screw up. Check the answer...
8) Put this away. And do something else, other homework, take a 30 minute break
9) Do your homework again. This time to turn in, or for your workbook. Do every problem again. Hopefully without peeking at your previous work.
The magic is 2 fold. 1 Being Prepared. It really helps you pay attention. 2. PRACTICE MORE. Your confidence goes up every time you do the SAME Problem over.
To study for a test, just redo ALL of the homework for the sections covered. You should be able to fly through it. Circle and flag the areas you forgot. That's an area to focus on.
My neighbor went from failing grades to scoring so high on the next test, the teacher thought he cheated. When he explained that it was really easy because 1/2 of the test was from the examples, and the other 1/2 was just like the homework, the teacher knew. I spent 2 sessions with this kid. And I did not charge them a penny. He is now on his
way to become an ENGINEER!
My degree isn't education. But if I can figure that out, and I have watched it work EVERY SINGLE TIME, why can't the schools? (Because they are there to indoctrinate, and to equalize everyone... No child gets ahead).
BTW, I don't charge. The only kids who don't improve are the ones who don't do the work. I make it easy for the parents to see that every problem is done twice. The reading list and the Examples for the next day. and when you get that call from a parent who is almost crying to say "Thank you! My daughter is in her room, SINGING while doing her math, and laughing because it is easy again!"... It warms your heart... And it breaks it too! Because this can't be accidental!
Hey, should I post a TOPIC for parents with the complete details???? comment and let me know. This is probably the one group that would gladly use it!
Because I'm a confirmed Wise Guy I also ask cashiers, "Which President is on the US $10 bill?" When they say, "I don't know," I say, "Right!" I like to think that I've just shined a bit of brightness into the dull job of being a cashier.
Ahhh, drive Through at Burger King...
"He was a Burger King Employee... With Grease In His Hair!" Sung to JukeBox Hero!
All my bills were always in order, facing the same direction. And I was trained to always say "Out of X Dollars", and place it sideways above the money until change was made. And to count up to that value from their amount as a double check on giving the correct change.
The good old days... Nows its SWIPE, Click, Go!
One of my favorite books was Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley. My favorite problem was: given a dictionary of English words as input (assumed a file), generate (efficiently) a list of all anagrams that spell at least 2 words.
Music... I almost flunked music. I can't CLAP to music. My daughter will push my hands down. LOL
Watching the ad now seems funny. https://youtu.be/2NPKxhfFQMs
Pick which political party you want running Medicare Part D. It seems silly.