In Spain we have gone a step further to that of not understanding Maths and consequently trusting any dude who´s capable of writing mathematical symbols under the "Science" tag: Some members of our government have decided that Maths need a gender approach, a diversity touch, whatever the hell that means...
In Spain we have gone a step further to that of not understanding Maths and consequently trusting any dude who´s capable of writing mathematical symbols under the "Science" tag: Some members of our government have decided that Maths need a gender approach, a diversity touch, whatever the hell that means...
Meanwhile, in the PISA Maths studies, Spanish kids have totally sinked, but that´s only until those exams take into account the subtleties they haven´t considered yet...
As the great Redd Kross said in "Crazy World", well, crazy, crazy world we live in...
While teaching US high school science in 1990 I discovered the 3rd grade math teachers were REQUIRED by the textbooks they used to let students use 4 function calculators. No surprise, I had out of about 75 students only one 8th grader who could do any long division of more than 2 digits by hand. Most US kids are taught today only to push buttons and thus can't by hand or mind add or subtract single digits today. Deliberate dumbing down of America.
Yes. I would say this is a global direction, clearly designed by a few and spread by an astonishing amount of naive, useful idiots, who in turn get rewarded. In Spain, my country, the man who was awarded with some "title" in the likes of "Spanish teacher of the year" said something as preposterous as children not needing to memorize ANYTHING, because that´s why Google exists. I am writing it, I know it he said because I read the interview, and I can barely believe what I am writing...
I had students in 1990 tell me when I asked, "What would you do if you lost your little cheap calculator and had to do some simple math?" "Buy another one!" Now they have calculators on their cell phones and digital payments systems at restaurants giving them at least 3 calculated tip choices.
I'd earlier seen in the 1970's the rise of Eubonics pushing American Black urban slang as acceptable "creative" spelling in English class and "creative" math, too. No wrong answers! "Prizes for all," said the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland.
Laughed a lot in Spring 2020 when the white coat authorities talked about "flattening the curve" while I knew most in the US today can't read an x-y graph.
There are ever more days I seriously think: let all those dumb and lazy idiots take 10+ jabs to win quickly a Darwin Award taking themselves out of the gene pool. But then. I try to have some empathy due to their crap educations. It took over over 2 generations to create this fiasco. I hope I live long enough to see it end.
That "no wrong answers" is the perfect, terrifying symbol and idol of these times.
I too hope I'll get to see the finish line. I was more pessimistic in 2020-22, when insanity peaked at such level that some memories from those days not only seem distant, but also have a hazy quality, like they don't belong to the human waking life. Intuition tells me the wave has lost power and speed, and its decadence is unavoidable. But first there will be separation, spiritual and then geographical.
I see you write you're from Spain. When I was at my lowest about this in late spring 2021 as my country, the USA, was going nuts pushing "mandatory" jabs I had the most vidid dream ever involving Spain. t felt like a real vision of the future. I saw men on a dry grassy hill somewhere in Andalusia, on the horizon one of those big fighting black bull advertising signs and in front of me the men were angrily tearing apart a 5G tower with their bloody hands. Ever since that dream I've never doubted enough people around the world will rise up, fight, and stop this disaster but the fight will not be easy.
That is a peculiar and interesting dream indeed. Yes, a dream can be just a dream, but sometimes it carries simbolic information and intuitions that have great value. I hope yours comes true.
Mine are totally directed to a progressive separation of Humankind in two great factions differing in spirit, life values, relationship with technology, etc., and the separation will get to be geographical, and it will be good, the seed of something great.
We´ll be here to see to what extent this becomes actuality, but I am much more confident than I was that your scenario or mine, which only differ in form, will become true.
I feel you are right about a great "separation" between those willingly and lazily hooked into screens, drugs and any powers-that-be bread & circus distractions & propaganda, and those who continuously reach out to connect with real life from fellow humans to all of nature. A happy wave to you from across the Atlantic Ocean!
In Spain we have gone a step further to that of not understanding Maths and consequently trusting any dude who´s capable of writing mathematical symbols under the "Science" tag: Some members of our government have decided that Maths need a gender approach, a diversity touch, whatever the hell that means...
Meanwhile, in the PISA Maths studies, Spanish kids have totally sinked, but that´s only until those exams take into account the subtleties they haven´t considered yet...
As the great Redd Kross said in "Crazy World", well, crazy, crazy world we live in...
While teaching US high school science in 1990 I discovered the 3rd grade math teachers were REQUIRED by the textbooks they used to let students use 4 function calculators. No surprise, I had out of about 75 students only one 8th grader who could do any long division of more than 2 digits by hand. Most US kids are taught today only to push buttons and thus can't by hand or mind add or subtract single digits today. Deliberate dumbing down of America.
Yes. I would say this is a global direction, clearly designed by a few and spread by an astonishing amount of naive, useful idiots, who in turn get rewarded. In Spain, my country, the man who was awarded with some "title" in the likes of "Spanish teacher of the year" said something as preposterous as children not needing to memorize ANYTHING, because that´s why Google exists. I am writing it, I know it he said because I read the interview, and I can barely believe what I am writing...
I had students in 1990 tell me when I asked, "What would you do if you lost your little cheap calculator and had to do some simple math?" "Buy another one!" Now they have calculators on their cell phones and digital payments systems at restaurants giving them at least 3 calculated tip choices.
I'd earlier seen in the 1970's the rise of Eubonics pushing American Black urban slang as acceptable "creative" spelling in English class and "creative" math, too. No wrong answers! "Prizes for all," said the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland.
Laughed a lot in Spring 2020 when the white coat authorities talked about "flattening the curve" while I knew most in the US today can't read an x-y graph.
There are ever more days I seriously think: let all those dumb and lazy idiots take 10+ jabs to win quickly a Darwin Award taking themselves out of the gene pool. But then. I try to have some empathy due to their crap educations. It took over over 2 generations to create this fiasco. I hope I live long enough to see it end.
That "no wrong answers" is the perfect, terrifying symbol and idol of these times.
I too hope I'll get to see the finish line. I was more pessimistic in 2020-22, when insanity peaked at such level that some memories from those days not only seem distant, but also have a hazy quality, like they don't belong to the human waking life. Intuition tells me the wave has lost power and speed, and its decadence is unavoidable. But first there will be separation, spiritual and then geographical.
I see you write you're from Spain. When I was at my lowest about this in late spring 2021 as my country, the USA, was going nuts pushing "mandatory" jabs I had the most vidid dream ever involving Spain. t felt like a real vision of the future. I saw men on a dry grassy hill somewhere in Andalusia, on the horizon one of those big fighting black bull advertising signs and in front of me the men were angrily tearing apart a 5G tower with their bloody hands. Ever since that dream I've never doubted enough people around the world will rise up, fight, and stop this disaster but the fight will not be easy.
That is a peculiar and interesting dream indeed. Yes, a dream can be just a dream, but sometimes it carries simbolic information and intuitions that have great value. I hope yours comes true.
Mine are totally directed to a progressive separation of Humankind in two great factions differing in spirit, life values, relationship with technology, etc., and the separation will get to be geographical, and it will be good, the seed of something great.
We´ll be here to see to what extent this becomes actuality, but I am much more confident than I was that your scenario or mine, which only differ in form, will become true.
Have a nice day.
I feel you are right about a great "separation" between those willingly and lazily hooked into screens, drugs and any powers-that-be bread & circus distractions & propaganda, and those who continuously reach out to connect with real life from fellow humans to all of nature. A happy wave to you from across the Atlantic Ocean!