Keith Hudson wrote:
>
> In view of recent discussion regarding IQ tests the following may be of
> interest to some FWers. I don't know where and when it was published but I
> found it interesting because although I was aware of the SAT test in the US
> (much superior to our A level system, in my view) I didn't know a great
> deal about it.
> (I presume this article was published fairly recently.)
>
> Keith Hudson
>
> <<<<<<<<<<
> The SAT Revolution
[snip]
Public Television had a Ken Burns program about Thomas
Jefferson on last nite. Ken Burns is just slightly less
irritating than Condaleezza Rice, but he makes good
documentaries.
When Jefferson founded The University of Virginia, which the
show said was the first secular university in the world (we
won't talk about ancient Greece...) -- When Jefferson
founded the University of Virginia, one of his ideas is that
it would be a place where persons would come to study when they
felt they needed/wanted to, and leave when they felt that
was right, too. There would be no degrees, no entrance exams....
Well, things did not quite work out that way, but it does
show that these ideas were "in the air" long before
pinko standards-eroding John Dewey.
Like Mr. Byck, albeit at the opposite
end of the moral spectrum, such things became unthinkable
as history continued.
For anyone, such as myself, who feels there was very little
of any value in "the past" -- by which I am referring to what
the pedagogues taught in "history" courses" and seemed
like nobody could really have lived through it --, I would highly
recommend Pierre Hadot's _What is Ancient Philosophy?_
It is very important that we forget the past so that we
do not ask "Who killed Cock Robin?" (ref. the chapter
in David Landes' _Revolution in Time_ about how the
American watch industry got destroyed). Prof Fukuyama
would probably chime in: "You don't understand! We are living
in the fulfillment of History here and now in the U.S.A.
This is not just [comparatively] the best of all
possible worlds, but [absolutely]
a world that is All Good. (Gosh it's fun being
a Princeton Professor and media idol beloved even of
Condaleeza Rice!)"
As somebody defined (ref. most lamentably lost!) education:
What was once the leisured privilege of a few
Has become the obligatory tedium of all.
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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