Dumb As A Rock: You Will Be Absolutely Amazed At The Things That U.S. High School Students

[bnvalerie]

http://www.amazon.com/Deliberate-Dumbing-America-Revised-Abridged/dp/0966707117/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326311823&sr=8-2

If there is a child anywhere that you care about, read that book. It is the paper trail.

 

[Legend1104]

What would happen if you gave your students an 1,000 question extra credit exam were each right answer was counted as 1 extra credit on the first day of school?

It would end about the same as it does now. They wouldn't get enough right to make a difference.

 

[COpatriot]

What can you expect when the kids are more interested in Justin Bieber and other awful teenie autotuned overproduced "music" and celebrity relationships?

 

[Marenco]

What can you expect when the kids are more interested in Justin Bieber and other awful teenie autotuned overproduced "music" and celebrity relationships?

True. People here should see Mike Judges' film 'Idiocracy' if they haven't already, it is spot on.

 

[Bosco Warden]

http://www.amazon.com/Deliberate-Dumbing-America-Revised-Abridged/dp/0966707117/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326311823&sr=8-2

Was this book any good?

I am now reading "The Leipzig Connection" its good but wow is it dry reading. Same principle though.

Another book by Antony Sutton talks about this book as well, I like Antony Suttons books. He has a whole series on the money behind the world conquest tours.

http://www.amazon.com/Leipzig-Connection-Basics-Education/dp/0897390016/ref=pd_sim_b_8

 

[TheNewYorker]

Kids these days are very dumb, not just them but most people under the age of 25. So bad, that I hate leaving my house. But only the parents are to blame. They do not displine their children anymore, and children never learn from their mistakes without discipline. Every time I visit friends with children I'm just amazed at how the children run and control the household and the parents do their bidding. It's ridiculous. If I ever have kids, that won't be me.

I do have stepchildren of my own. Teenagers. products of the public education system. One is 16. The most recent line I had from him is that made me do a double take, was when he asked me "how does the car know when you are turning?" (in reference to the turn signal.) I answered, and it was followed by, "Oh, so does that mean you can control when the car stops?" LOL.

This coming from a kid who plays video games 24/7 and does nothing else beside go to school. You would think playing grand theft auto would teach him how a car works. Guess not. No real world experience at all. Parents. PARENTS and technology are to blame.

 

[amyre]

Believe it people. They don't teach history in school anymore. It's "social studies" and the history that IS taught is disjointed, makes no sense in the order in which it's presented, and is downright boring. You memorize, take the test, and purge the information. One of the many reasons I pulled my kids out.

 

[Philhelm]

Kids these days are very dumb, not just them but most people under the age of 25. So bad, that I hate leaving my house. But only the parents are to blame. They do not displine their children anymore, and children never learn from their mistakes without discipline. Every time I visit friends with children I'm just amazed at how the children run and control the household and the parents do their bidding. It's ridiculous. If I ever have kids, that won't be me.

I do have stepchildren of my own. Teenagers. products of the public education system. One is 16. The most recent line I had from him is that made me do a double take, was when he asked me "how does the car know when you are turning?" (in reference to the turn signal.) I answered, and it was followed by, "Oh, so does that mean you can control when the car stops?" LOL.

This coming from a kid who plays video games 24/7 and does nothing else beside go to school. You would think playing grand theft auto would teach him how a car works. Guess not. No real world experience at all. Parents. PARENTS and technology are to blame.

I feel the same way about not wanting to leave the house. Our culture is appalling.

 

[PierzStyx]

The purposeful dumbing down of the population.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

I can't even comprehend how none of the students knew how to draw a straight line with a friggin' ruler. I started using a ruler when I was around 4 years old. I didn't need to be taught how to draw a straight line with it because you only need the most basic of common sense to figure it out. It's as if you told me someone you knew just died because he didn't know that walking in the middle of the highway was dangerous.

I think he meant how to measure with a ruler. At least, that's what I hope he meant. It's still really bad, but not being able to draw a straight line is just downright retarded.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Was this book any good?

I am now reading "The Leipzig Connection" its good but wow is it dry reading. Same principle though.

Another book by Antony Sutton talks about this book as well, I like Antony Suttons books. He has a whole series on the money behind the world conquest tours.

http://www.amazon.com/Leipzig-Connection-Basics-Education/dp/0897390016/ref=pd_sim_b_8

DDDoA is a great read. Iserbyt is not a dry writer, and it's interesting stuff. It's available free on the webbernets if you google it. Don't recall where I got my copy, sorry.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Believe it people. They don't teach history in school anymore. It's "social studies" and the history that IS taught is disjointed, makes no sense in the order in which it's presented, and is downright boring. You memorize, take the test, and purge the information. One of the many reasons I pulled my kids out.

College history isn't much better.

 

[LibertyEagle]

http://www.amazon.com/Deliberate-Dumbing-America-Revised-Abridged/dp/0966707117/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326311823&sr=8-2

You can download it for free.
http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/

 

[Hospitaller]

Abraham Lincoln? No, Alexander Hamilton? Yea, Hamilton. Or, was that Madison...?

You are giving them too much credit it seems

 

[noxnoctum]

This is one of the main reason that our government is such a joke right now.

 

[demolama]

History is considered a "soft" subject. Geography has already made the chopping block. Most incoming college student can't even tell you where any states are on the map. Schools are actually looking to get rid History in favor of more important subjects such as psychology or sociology. Blame the notion that science and math are more important. How many of you can say you used Calculus outside of high school? Meanwhile colleges need to make low level classes, the same subjects covered for 12 years, as a means to reeducate students because government churn out ignorance.

 

[Revolution9]

How many of you can say you used Calculus outside of high school?

Wish I had paid more attention to it. I wouldn't have had such a time devising game engine algorithms. So, I have used it for projectiles and various physics sims and the like. I also wish I had understood why triangles were so frikkin' important in trigonometry. I was like.. I ain't gonna circumnavigate the world..why do I need this brain busting crap. Now I wish I could do matrix multiplication of vectors without having to use code libraries and get all my sin, cosin, tan, cotan etc relationships straight in my head.. Same with quaternions and vector calculations.

Rev9

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Its not possible to beat the stupid out of people, or wisdom into people.

I think that the biggest failure in the educational system comes from the Parents, not the Government. Im sure that there would be a lot of parents that would be willing to spend more time trying to teach their children and provide a better education to them, but they simply dont have the time. Hell, both parents working two full time jobs (if they actually have jobs) just to pay a mortgage on a house they cant afford doesnt leave a whole lot of time for them to be parents while they are slaves to the system.

Is that really the fault of the parents, though? Because it sounds like it's more the fault of the system. You know, the government.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

They're still smarter than congress.

This meme is false. Congress isn't filled with stupid people that can't get anything done right. It's filled with evil people that do the wrong thing on purpose.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

True. People here should see Mike Judges' film 'Idiocracy' if they haven't already, it is spot on.

Doesn't Idiocracy advocate eugenics? The stupid people are not the problem. The state is.

http://xkcd.com/603/