The Know-Nothing Generation

[grizz441]

Sorry Grizz, too easy.   

No time to edit!! lol

[Dichotomy]

You are 32 years old according to U.S. averages of intelligence?  That doesn't make sense.

If you said you were 32 years old according to the average educated 32 year old U.S. citizen, that might make a little bit more sense, but still doesn't mean anything, since the average person is not very bright.

The human population will continue to get dumber and dumber since less educated, less intelligent, and less responsible humans will reproduce more often than intelligent, responsible humans.  There is no darwinism anymore to weed out the bad genes.  There are still many young intelligent people that become more valuable in each generation.

See the first five minutes of Idiocracy.  Sad but pretty close to true

[oakranger]

Almost everything I have ever learned in mathmatics I have used in real life including high level calculus and diff eq.

If you don't believe try me and I will attempt to give you a real life application.

what do you do?

[Ardy123]

The human population will continue to get dumber and dumber since less educated, less intelligent, and less responsible humans will reproduce more often than intelligent, responsible humans.  There is no darwinism anymore to weed out the bad genes.  There are still many young intelligent people that become more valuable in each generation.

BRAWNDO... It's got electrolytes!

[BoilerDown]

Anyone who seriously suggests that its the kid's fault is an idiot.  Its the parent's fault.  Its the fault of insufficient school funding.  But kids are born no worse or better than any previous generation, its their experiences after they are born that shape them. And the responsibility for giving them the best shaping experiences falls squarely on those are now blaming the kids.  Hypocrisy at its worst.  You call them the "know-nothing generation", they call you the "teach-nothing generation".

[grizz441]

what do you do?

I'm a math teacher.

JK lol.

structural eit and grad student.

[oakranger]

I'm a math teacher.

JK lol.

structural eit and grad student.

my pick was a math teacher, engineer, chemist, or accountant. 

[Vudak]

Let me get this straight...  The older generations have seen fit to reduce the learning objectives of the younger generation to factoids (SAT jeopardy tests--especially the subject tests), and the older generations are upset the kids use google?

[Motherland]

I always thought that math was stupid and useless past basic functions until I got to calculus.
'Ohhhh.... THAT's why we learned all of that stuff'

[CHAPPY]

Blame Mtv.

[Penguin]

I must agree with SAT Jeopardy- it makes no sense at all to do it this way.  For instance, let's say that I want to be a doctor in the ICU- will knowing what the xylem of a tree help me there?

How about a question like this (multiple choice):

A young man who has suffered a relatively minor gash in his thigh is rolled in- he's bleeding out.  However, this accident has occurred eight hours ago, and the head nurse is nowhere to be found.  You are suddenly placed in command of the unit.   As you ponder what to do- a nurse comes to you and says that the man is on the last blood bag which can be scavenged.  With no time left, and the man's life on the line, you must make the correct diagnosis and administer the correct treatment:

Does the man suffer from:
A.) Hemophilia
B.) A deeper gash than expected
C.) A blood clot being loosened
D.) Hypertension

You scream out the answer, but now, what will you do with him?

A.) Give him some morphine, and let him bleed out
B.) Tourniquet above the area
C.) An injection of Zyntha
D.) An injection of Warfarin

This is a way to test real skills in real situations.  Not just what a xylem of a tree is.

-Penguin




Answer Key

Number 1: A
Number 2: C

[Motherland]

School =/= vocational training.
School is to build a basic understanding of the world around you- math, science, history/geography and English. It's not to teach you how to do your job, that's what college is for.

[oakranger]

I must agree with SAT Jeopardy- it makes no sense at all to do it this way.  For instance, let's say that I want to be a doctor in the ICU- will knowing what the xylem of a tree help me there?

How about a question like this (multiple choice):

A young man who has suffered a relatively minor gash in his thigh is rolled in- he's bleeding out.  However, this accident has occurred eight hours ago, and the head nurse is nowhere to be found.  You are suddenly placed in command of the unit.   As you ponder what to do- a nurse comes to you and says that the man is on the last blood bag which can be scavenged.  With no time left, and the man's life on the line, you must make the correct diagnosis and administer the correct treatment:

Does the man suffer from:
A.) Hemophilia
B.) A deeper gash than expected
C.) A blood clot being loosened
D.) Hypertension

You scream out the answer, but now, what will you do with him?

A.) Give him some morphine, and let him bleed out
B.) Tourniquet above the area
C.) An injection of Zyntha
D.) An injection of Warfarin

This is a way to test real skills in real situations.  Not just what a xylem of a tree is.

-Penguin




Answer Key

Number 1: A
Number 2: C

It is important to i.d. xylem and phloem.

[Penguin]

School =/= vocational training.
School is to build a basic understanding of the world around you- math, science, history/geography and English. It's not to teach you how to do your job, that's what college is for.

Thought I made it obvious...    What school would teach this?

-Penguin

[Motherland]

Thought I made it obvious...    What school would teach this?

-Penguin

Well, SAT's are a test of what you've learned through school, so logically...