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Everyone's whores!

Is striapach mé.

Things will be different in the New Order. In the Zeta Reticuli system, we revere knowledge and reason above all else. Indeed, individuals must be evalutated at a certain educational level in order to participate in society. Such a deficiency in educational level would render the child you describe fit for nothing but base manual servitude in the spice mines of Tau Ceti.

We recognize that 2+2=4 is an immutable law of nature, and therefore is always correct, and that 2+2=6 is always wrong. Failure to accept the wrongness of that answer is considered in our culture the closest thing to your human concept of "sin."

Such an ideological system which prefers the emotional self-esteem of the child as more important than the absolute facts of knowledge would be an abomination to our people, and we would swiftly and mercilessly suppress such a system.

Deb wrote:It is the result of an approach called outcome based education. To over simplify the premise: if little Harold can not understand why 2+2 =6 is the wrong answer, then it is NOT wrong until the teacher can explain it to him so that he DOES understand.

And, if at the end of his time in the first grade he still does not understand, most likely, the teacher will pass him up to the second grade because it is easier to make little Harold be somebody else's problem.

The cycle continues until little Harold is ready to graduate from High School and he can play football and be a star, but he cannot properly spell, speak or execute mathematical equations.

Greznon wrote:Things will be different in the New Order. In the Zeta Reticuli system, we rever knowledge and reason above all else. Indeed, individuals must be evalutated at a certain educational level in order to participate in society. Such a deficiency in educational level would render such a child as you describe fit for nothing but base manual servitude in the spice mines of Tau Ceti.

We recognize that 2+2=4 is an immutable law of nature, and therefore is always correct, and that 2+2=6 is always wrong. Failure to accept the wrongness of that answer is considered in our culture the closest thing to your human concept of "sin."

Such an ideological system which prefers the emotional self-esteem of the child as more important than the absolute facts of knowledge would be an abomination to our people, and we would swiftly and mercilessly suppress such a system.

Deb wrote:It is the result of an approach called outcome based education. To over simplify the premise: if little Harold can not understand why 2+2 =6 is the wrong answer, then it is NOT wrong until the teacher can explain it to him so that he DOES understand.

And, if at the end of his time in the first grade he still does not understand, most likely, the teacher will pass him up to the second grade because it is easier to make little Harold be somebody else's problem.

The cycle continues until little Harold is ready to graduate from High School and he can play football and be a star, but he cannot properly spell, speak or execute mathematical equations.

Hey Greznon...if you ever get tired of being the herald of the New World Order, we could sure use you as a Public Schools Administrator here in good ol' Santa Cruz County!

The most recent argument here in California has to do with testing, and how "unfair" it is to handicapped students, who may not be able to pass the tests, and thus would be ineligible for high school diplomas. Well gee...I've always kind of figured that having a high school diploma was supposed to mean that one had managed to accrue and retain a certain level of education. No patch on the handicapped kids, who certainly deserve as good an education as they're able to receive, but perhaps...just maybe...if they can't pass the exit exams, they shouldn't get high school diplomas. What's wrong with letting them walk through the graduation ceremonies and receive a "certificate of acheivement" instead?

Redwolf

Redwolf

Redwolf wrote:The most recent argument here in California has to do with testing, and how "unfair" it is to handicapped students, who may not be able to pass the tests, and thus would be ineligible for high school diplomas. Well gee...I've always kind of figured that having a high school diploma was supposed to mean that one had managed to accrue and retain a certain level of education. No patch on the handicapped kids, who certainly deserve as good an education as they're able to receive, but perhaps...just maybe...if they can't pass the exit exams, they shouldn't get high school diplomas. What's wrong with letting them walk through the graduation ceremonies and receive a "certificate of acheivement" instead?

With our mastery of genetics, we do not have such things as "handicapped" people in our society. We have been handicap-free for at least 5,000 of your solar revolutions.

However, our educational system would please you. We recognize that individuals possess different abilities in different degrees. As much as we prefer uniformity and order, this is an immutable fact of nature which we cannot undue. Our education system is designed to increase an individual's content-knowledge and improve its intellectual reasoning ability. Midstage in the training process, the individual's specific talents and intelligences are assessed, and its course of training is modified to develop and enhance its specific inherent abilities.

At the end of the training process, the individual is assessed and placed in a category designating its type of intelligence and its level within that type. Based on its designation, the individual is assigned a duty within society best suited to his abilities which allows it to serve the society as efficiently as possible.

Because we recognize the collective good as superior to the individual's emotions, those are assigned a lower level do not see it as a slight or insult, but an objective and natural classification of their abilities. Whatever the designation, all individuals rejoice at the opportunity to serve the collective good.

Your human educational system is fraught with emotion, I fear. Your high school diplomas are very inefficient compared to our designations, and have become a symbol of emotional self-esteem. In the New Order, Terran education will be remodeled along Reticulan lines, and you will become useful and productive citizens of the galaxy.