[tips] Random Thought: A Quickie On Seeing Each Student

2010-03-13 Thread Louis Schmier
The students had been working on and presenting The Song project. You should have seen them! You should have read their original lyrics!! These are students who had surprised themselves because they had accepted, as they moaned and groaned, that they couldn't write, that they

Re:[tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010-03-13 Thread Allen Esterson
From Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?, by John Cloud in Time, cited by Stephen Black: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968042,00.html These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more

Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010-03-13 Thread John Kulig
Interesting. Even in the US the terms are undergoing transformations. The current Obama administration (like Clinton's) is nowhere near liberal compared to Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson. Even more bizarre is that when the Clintons pushed for single-payer health care system in the 1990s,

Re: [tips] Random Thought: A Quickie On Seeing Each Student

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher D. Green
A 1300-word quickie? I've given essay assignments that are shorter. :-) Chris Green York U. Toronto == Louis Schmier wrote: The students had been working on and presenting The Song project. You should have seen them! You should have read their original lyrics!! These are

Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher D. Green
Allen Esterson wrote: Oh, dear, the perils of translating from the UK to the US! Do not conflate the American use of the term liberal with what is meant in Britain by Liberal. Although the history of UK's Liberal Democrats has some relevance here, the problem is translating from the

Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

2010-03-13 Thread Christopher D. Green
John Kulig wrote: Interesting. Even in the US the terms are undergoing transformations. The current Obama administration (like Clinton's) is nowhere near liberal compared to Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson. There's a very good reason that Obama's no FDR. He doesn't have anything