Dumbing Down America

[Scribbler1]

The candle. It's portable, it gives you light and you can use IT to light the other two things.

[Technosoul]

Scribbler1 - sorry but you failed the test.... I cannot wait so I will give you the correct (most logical) answer.

First you light the match. Ha ha. fooled you that time.

Remember "but you only got one match" and so you must light the match first to light the candle.

Technosoul.

[Technosoul]

Quote by: Technosoul Scribbler1 - sorry but you failed the test.... I cannot wait so I will give you the correct (most logical) answer. First you light the match. Ha ha. fooled you that time. Remember "but you only got one match" and so you must light the match first to light the candle. Technosoul.

Here is the 2nd question on your test.

How many pairs of animals did Moses take on the Ark with him during the Great Flood?

[rcne]

OK, I'll play. Moses only had one pair of animals. (one pair of each kind) Just what this has to do with the educational system, I don't know.

Unless this is from the chapter tests of the high school books.

P.S. Give your wife my sympathy, for having to work within our educational system today. I know some teachers who love to teach - but have to follow the game plan, with no deviation from it.

The sad part is that even if the class finds an area interesting, they must move on.

[PatrickHenry]

Technosoul, you devil. It was NOAH'S ark, not Moses. But the pairs of animals were one pair of each, except for the kinds that were good to eat and the birds of the air. There were seven pairs of those...

Genesis 6:19-20 And you shall bring into the ark two of every kind, of every living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. Two of every kind shall come to you to keep them alive; of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind. Genesis 7:1-3 And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation. You shall take with you every clean animal by sevens, the male and female. And take two of the animals that are not clean, the male and female. Also take of the fowls of the air by sevens, the male and the female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

[Scribbler1]

Quote by: Technosoul Scribbler1 - sorry but you failed the test.... I cannot wait so I will give you the correct (most logical) answer. First you light the match. Ha ha. fooled you that time. Remember "but you only got one match" and so you must light the match first to light the candle. Technosoul.

Rats!!!

OK, for my revenge I'll leave you with this one. Make a word from this: SECURA

It has to be a common English word, you must use ALL the letters and not SKIP any. Do not use any letter twice.
In 20 years NO ONE has ever gotten this one right, but we have a pretty sharp crew here so I don't know.

[bishop]

one word, or 6 words starting with s, e, c, u, r and a?

[The Iconoclast]

BAHAHAHAHA I got it ...hmm to prove that I figured it out, let me just say :

"have some tea..."

[Scribbler1]

Quote by: The Iconoclast BAHAHAHAHA I got it ...hmm to prove that I figured it out, let me just say : "have some tea..."

I wasn't kidding. I got this from one of those little books you buy at the supermarket checkout about 25 years ago, and I have never had anyone figure it out.

Until now...congratulations!
Now I'll let YOU give out the answer or see how far it goes (unless your hint gave it away).

[Morgan_Freeman]

The National Science Foundation funds a lot of good research, sure. But it also funds a lot of shitty research. When you're working for the government, you don't have to get results.

I say disband the NSA. This is just another example of government overstepping its constitutional limitations and inefficiently attempting to do something the free market can do a lot better.

[Scribbler1]

Quote by: Morgan_Freeman The National Science Foundation funds a lot of good research, sure. But it also funds a lot of shitty research. When you're working for the government, you don't have to get results. I say disband the NSA. This is just another example of government overstepping its constitutional limitations and inefficiently attempting to do something the free market can do a lot better.

If they do SOME good work, why disband it? And show me where the "free market" will REPLACE the NSA. It won't as it does all the research it needs to for it's for-profit ventures. But who will fund research that has no immediate value?
The "free market" is a great catchphrase and a dandy little religion but it isn't the answer to EVERYTHING.
Personally, if the government wasted HALF it's funding for science, it's a hell of a lot better than funding a 2-300 BILLION dollar (and counting) shithole in the Middle East.

[Technosoul]

Quote by: PatrickHenry Technosoul, you devil. It was NOAH'S ark, not Moses. But the pairs of animals were one pair of each, except for the kinds that were good to eat and the birds of the air. There were seven pairs of those...

Patrick, okay you more of less got the right answer, the right answer would be :"none" because Moses never had an Ark nor was he in the great flood.

These seem like trick questions but companies do use them to see if the potential applicant is good at "paying attention to details" because it is up to their supervisors to catch errors in texts completed by other employees, and to be quick at coming to the most logical answers for problems.

The reason I posted these questions is because this is a post about dumb America.

Technosoul.

[Morgan_Freeman]

Quote by: Scribbler1 If they do SOME good work, why disband it? And show me where the "free market" will REPLACE the NSA. It won't as it does all the research it needs to for it's for-profit ventures. But who will fund research that has no immediate value?

If it doesn't have value then why should *anyone* fund it?

[castille]

Americans are getting dumber because they choose to be dumb.

Some of the most successful people I know haven't even got a proper education. But they CHOOSE to learn. They devote their lives to learning.

Meanwhile, college kids spend their time partying and having fun instead of learning. Do you know many students in Singapore spend up to 15 hours a day learning?


Nobody is dumbing down Americans. It is Americans who choose to be dumb. If you become addicted to MTV, then you deserve to be dumb.

[Osborn F Enready]

SAUCER would be the correct answer to the word jumble.

[JohnLockeRocks]

Nobody is dumbing down Americans. It is Americans who choose to be dumb. If you become addicted to MTV, then you deserve to be dumb.

Unfortunately, Castille, I have to agree with you. There's nothing worse than television. I made the mistake of buying one a while back (so I could watch DVD's without staring at the computer screen). I plugged the thing in, turned it on... and saw this: "Today, our guests are fifteen-year-old girls who'll stop at nothing to have a baby!" I unplugged the thing, took it outside, and slammed it against a pecan tree a few times... then took a sledgehammer to it. I had to use a broom to gather the remains of the thing :-)

It's considerably easier to remain a passive non-being, to have your ideas spoon-fed, than it is to learn about the world around you. It's so much more comfortable, you know? But we're forgetting about John Locke, about Patrick Henry, about Thomas Jefferson, about what it was that made us something different, something better than what we were. Yeah, I know about Moro Crater. But I also know that we were the nation that rebuilt Europe after World War II. Our history has shown that we can be something better than what we've become.

Yeah, we've dug a hole for ourselves. It's what happens when you grow fat and complacent--back in the 50's, they called it a "Chevrolet mentality," a desire to have things that "bling" instead of things to make one think. Personally, I think that universal education is a great idea, but I think we need to get back to teaching in the schools. I think Johnny should be booted out of class for cursing at the teacher, rather than being diagnosed with ADD.