As far as graphology is concerned as a career aptitude indicator: I’ve heard that only budding doctors can be spotted in this way.
Rigil
Mebbe; no guarantees though. then there’s the small matter of who presents it in the school.
I can imagine the response to the questions from Clifford’s “The Ethics of Belief” “Is it ever or always morally wrong (or epistemically irrational, or imprudent) to hold a belief on insufficient evidence? Is it ever or always morally right (or epistemically rational, or prudent) to believe on the basis of sufficient evidence, or to withhold belief in the perceived absence of it? Is it ever or always obligatory to seek out all available epistemic evidence for a belief? Are there some ways of obtaining evidence that are themselves immoral or imprudent?”
On the topic of education, our government is obviously and staunchly opposed to exceptionalism, presumably because, unlike as we do with athletic ability, the idea that we should differentiate according to academic capability is a heresy that simply cannot be entertained. (And it’s irrelevant that this rejection brings basic education down to a tick above the lowest common denominator, thereby harming everyone’s schooling.)
It’s like watching a train smash from a distance in slo-mo.
'Luthon64
Hrm, lately it feels like I’m watching a locomotive smash into a brick wall while going around a slight bend from 10 cars back. I can see exactly what’s going on. The full brunt hasn’t hit me yet, but I know it’s coming.
Oh, it’s already here. I work in education, and I see the thing from two perspectives. On the one hand, I deal every day with kids broken first by their own parents, and then broken some more by the system. But I can also observe firsthand how difficult it has become in South Africa to find staff capable of doing, well, anything at all. The lost generation we have created over the past two decades has of late begun hitting the streets, and it’s not a pretty sight.
And yet, in virtually all schools, we persist in the folly of thinking you can turn brain damaged kids into engineers.
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Ag FOK!, I loved that clip and now its tainted by these bloody idiots.
I don’t recall if I posted this…
They don’t teach you THIS shit in physics class!
I guess it’s true, the stupid does burn.
Here’s something truly facepalm-worthy: At its current NGC, the ANC recognises that graft and corruption are a significant problem. But, it contends (not for the first time), it was inherited from the Apartheid regime.
That makes about as much sense as saying, “If I’m a crook, it’s only because I fought against your father who was a crook.”
'Luthon64
Had a nice FB fight on the weekend on this. http://tac3news.com/nasa-proves-the-bible-is-true-the-missing-day/ I came across this some 25 to 30 years ago and I still cannot understand that anybody can be taken in by this. But the reason for the fight may have been my opening - “How bankrupt must a belief system be to use this as evidence?” It went downhill fast from there. ;D
It is a good job that in Joshua’s day the sun still went around the earth. If it was anything like today, the Earth stopping dead in its tracks would be quite catastrophic. Both for Joshua and his rivals.
This was pointed out to her, but of course not spelled out as nice as this. Will use this in future if I may. This is actually a good argument to show that, it was not a god (knows everything) but man who wrote the bible.
Making dogs swear an oath on the bible. (wtf!!)
The thing that irritates me the most about that whole Isis debate is the last bit: “…I would of changed my name.” Don’t know why, but of all the very American grammar errors out there, that one uniquely send me up the wall. I can deal with stuff like the very common there/their/they’re errors. But “would of”? EEEEEEKKKK!
Chances are that you won’t find a bottle with your name on it when you are rummaging through the supermarket fridge looking for a cola drink. I wonder if market research confirmed that Joe Anyman would rather pick a bottle of Coke bearing another first name than opt for a more anonymous Pepsi. I don’t fancy drinking someone else’s soda. What if they backwash?
Rigil
Technically if enough of them do it, it will become canonical American English.
I suppose so yes. But it still makes my skin crawl. Lots of new words do so, e.g. “learner” instead of the old-fashioned, and presumably politically incorrect, “pupil.” And in Afrikaans, “me” instead of mevrou or mejuffrou. Incidentally, is there an English equivalent, or is it still acceptable in English to talk about miss and mrs?
Another irritating Americanism: “off of.” E.g. I made a whole lot of money off of this project.