Some teachers are simply dumb.

Mitchell Holman · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

vermicule wrote in@kafka.homenet:

>
>
>>> just ignore what they were promoting... I found that my kids were
>>> extremely receptive to the notion that some teachers were just plain
>>> ignorant.
>
> In Australia, teaching and nursing are the courses with the lowest entry
> marks . As a result, some of what they teach in school is so replete
> with mistakes as to be hilarious.
>

Whereas in the US you can go to the finest
colleges in the land and still come out a
blithering idiot.

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
George W Bush, Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold
this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.''
George Bush, Aug 21, 2000

"All crimes are hate crimes"
George Bush Jr, explaining his opposition to hate
crimes legislation, 5/12/99.

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
George W Bush, Jan. 27, 2000

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so
are we. They never stop thinking about ways to harm
our country and our people and neither do we."
George Bush, Aug 5 2004

"You teach a child to read and he or
her will be able to pass a literacy test."
George Bush, February 21, 2001 -

Archived from group: alt>non>racism

Billy · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

"Mitchell Holman" wrote in message @216.196.97.131...
> vermicule wrote in
> @kafka.homenet:
>
>>
>>
>>>> just ignore what they were promoting... I found that my kids were
>>>> extremely receptive to the notion that some teachers were just plain
>>>> ignorant.
>>
>> In Australia, teaching and nursing are the courses with the lowest entry
>> marks . As a result, some of what they teach in school is so replete
>> with mistakes as to be hilarious.
>>
>
>
> Whereas in the US you can go to the finest
> colleges in the land and still come out a
> blithering idiot.
>
Berkeley is not the finest college in the land.

Mitchell Holman · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

steve wrote in
@news.orcon.net.nz:

> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>
>> vermicule wrote in
>> @kafka.homenet:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> just ignore what they were promoting... I found that my kids were
>>>>> extremely receptive to the notion that some teachers were just plain
>>>>> ignorant.
>>>
>>> In Australia, teaching and nursing are the courses with the lowest
entry
>>> marks . As a result, some of what they teach in school is so replete
>>> with mistakes as to be hilarious.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Whereas in the US you can go to the finest
>> colleges in the land and still come out a
>> blithering idiot.
>
> ...........
>
>> "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so
>> are we. They never stop thinking about ways to harm
>> our country and our people and neither do we."
>> George Bush, Aug 5 2004
>
> I was thinking the same thing.....
>
> That Bush went to Yale - and passed - does serious damage to their
academic
> reputation.

Bush's low grades kept him out of the University
of Texas law school but were somehow good enough for
Harvard. Gee, guess which one his daddy the CIA director
had connections to?

vermicule · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 4

>> just ignore what they were promoting... I found that my kids were
>> extremely receptive to the notion that some teachers were just plain
>> ignorant.

In Australia, teaching and nursing are the courses with the lowest entry marks .
As a result, some of what they teach in school is so replete with mistakes as to be hilarious.

toto · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 2581

On Sun, 01 May 2005 03:27:44 GMT, dragonlady
wrote:

>Actually, an international study was just released ranking colleges from
>all over the world. (I wish I could remember who did it, but it was a
>credible organization based in Europe). They rated UC Berkeley as the
>SECOND best in the world. Harvard was ranked first.
>
>So maybe not "the finest" -- but darned close.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,591-1343946,00.html

Britain wins eight places in world list of 50 best universities
By Tony Halpin
OXFORD and Cambridge are among the world's top ten universities,
according to a new global ranking published today.

They were fifth and sixth respectively in the league table of the
world's 200 best universities. Harvard, which boasts an endowment of
nearly $23billion (£12.7billion), was first in the list produced by
The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES).

American institutions occupied seven of the top ten places, with
Oxbridge the highest-ranked outside the United States.

London's position as a centre of global educational significance was
confirmed with four institutions in the top 50. The London School of
Economics was 11th, Imperial College 14th, University College London
34th, and the School of Oriental and African Studies 44th.

The only European university outside Britain in the top 20 was the
Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, in tenth
place.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, however, can lay claim to being the world's
most intellectual city, as home to Harvard and to the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, which was ranked at No3.

California also scored highly, with the University of California,
Berkeley, in second place, the California Institute of Technology,
fourth, and Stanford seventh.

Tokyo University, in Japan, ranked at No12, was the highest-ranked
institution in Asia, followed by Beijing University at No17.

Australian universities featured particularly well. Six were among the
top 50 in the World University Rankings, led by the Australian
National University in sixteenth place.

France, by contrast, managed just two universities in the top 50, with
the École Polytechnique in 27th place and École Normale Supérieure
30th. Heidelburg University, in 47th place, was Germany's only entry,
one fewer than Hong Kong.

Britain was home to 18 of Europe's top 50 universities, and six of the
top ten, but not a single institution from Spain, Portugal, Italy or
Greece made the list. The United States had 62 of the top 200
universities, followed by Britain with 30, Germany 17 and Australia
14. Twenty-nine countries were represented in the global rankings
overall.

Universities were placed in the table with the help of findings from a
survey for the THES of 1,300 academics in 88 countries. They were
asked to name the best institutions in the fields that they felt
knowledgeable about.

The table also included data on the amount of cited research produced
by faculty members as an indicator of intellectual vitality, the ratio
of faculty to student numbers and a university's success in attracting
foreign students and internationally renowned academics in the global
market for education. The five factors were weighted and transformed
against a scale that gave the top university 1,000 points and ranked
everyone else as a proportion of that score.

Harvard, whose faculty members have won 40 Nobel prizes, emerged as
the world's best university by a considerable distance, with
second-placed Berkeley rated 120 points behind at 880.2. Oxford scored
731.8, slightly ahead of Cambridge on 725.4.

John O'Leary, Editor of the THES, said: "Leading universities
increasingly define themselves in terms of international competition.
By taking account of the views of academics from across five
continents and using the most up-to-date statistics, our ranking gives
an informed picture of the world's top universities."

A world league of the best 500 research universities, published in
September by academics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China,
placed Cambridge third behind Harvard and Stanford. Oxford came
eighth, while British universities ranked second overall behind those
in the United States.

Last December a report by Richard Lambert, former Editor of the
Financial Times, urged the Russell Group of Britain's leading 19
universities to establish a league table of the world's best research
institutions, by which they could measure their own performances.

You can see the list by enlarging the picture at the end of the
article.. Harvard is first by about 200 points, and UC Berkeley is
2nd, MIT and CIT are 3rd and 4th and Oxford is 5th, Cambridge
is 6th. There are many countries included in the list, but the US
has the most entries. (parenthetically for those who have noticed
Herman Rubin posting here, Purdue is not on the list )

--
Dorothy

There is no sound, no cry in all the world
that can be heard unless someone listens ..

The Outer Limits

dragonlady · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 2193

In article , "Billy"
wrote:

> "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
> @216.196.97.131...
> > vermicule wrote in
> > @kafka.homenet:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>>> just ignore what they were promoting... I found that my kids were
> >>>> extremely receptive to the notion that some teachers were just plain
> >>>> ignorant.
> >>
> >> In Australia, teaching and nursing are the courses with the lowest entry
> >> marks . As a result, some of what they teach in school is so replete
> >> with mistakes as to be hilarious.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Whereas in the US you can go to the finest
> > colleges in the land and still come out a
> > blithering idiot.
> >
> Berkeley is not the finest college in the land.
>
>

Actually, an international study was just released ranking colleges from
all over the world. (I wish I could remember who did it, but it was a
credible organization based in Europe). They rated UC Berkeley as the
SECOND best in the world. Harvard was ranked first.

So maybe not "the finest" -- but darned close.
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care

Bradley K. Sherman · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

In article ,
dragonlady wrote:
>
>Actually, an international study was just released ranking colleges from
>all over the world. (I wish I could remember who did it, but it was a
>credible organization based in Europe). They rated UC Berkeley as the
>SECOND best in the world. Harvard was ranked first.
>

But Berkeley has much, much better weather!

--bks

dragonlady · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 2193

In article ,
bks@panix.com (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

> In article ,
> dragonlady wrote:
> >
> >Actually, an international study was just released ranking colleges from
> >all over the world. (I wish I could remember who did it, but it was a
> >credible organization based in Europe). They rated UC Berkeley as the
> >SECOND best in the world. Harvard was ranked first.
> >
>
> But Berkeley has much, much better weather!
>
> --bks
>
>
>

Having lived close to both, I'll drink to that! (On the other hand,
University of Wisconsin at Madison -- also a fine university -- has
worse than either. . . I suspect that one of the worst of the fairly
decent colleges (in terms of weather) is University of Minnesota at
Duluth.

I never want to live in Duluth again. They have 4 seasons (almost
winter, winter, still winter, and road repair). I'll visit during road
repair season -- but the weather there makes Harvard seem downright
balmy.
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care

Jeff · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 2091

"Richard" wrote in message @csa3.bu.edu...
> In article , Mitchell Holman
> wrote:
>>
>> Bush's low grades kept him out of the University
>> of Texas law school but were somehow good enough for
>> Harvard. Gee, guess which one his daddy the CIA director
>> had connections to?
>
>
> George W Bush never attended Harvard Law School.

He attend Harvard's business school, getting him an MBA.

Jeff

Mitchell Holman · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

Richard wrote in@csa3.bu.edu:

> In article , Mitchell Holman
> wrote:
>>
>> Bush's low grades kept him out of the University
>> of Texas law school but were somehow good enough for
>> Harvard. Gee, guess which one his daddy the CIA director
>> had connections to?
>
>
> George W Bush never attended Harvard Law School.
>
>

Nope. Never said he did. He couldn't get
into UT's law school because of the low grades
that didn't matter when he applied to the Harvard
Busisness School. Affirmative action is wrong,
but "heritage admissions" are just dandy, it seems.

Conservatives can be such frauds, you know?

Mitchell Holman

"Human life is a sacred gift from our creator"
George Bush, August 9, 2001. This, after bragging
about how many prisoners were executed under his
watch as Texas governor.

steve · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

vermicule wrote:

>
>
>>> just ignore what they were promoting... I found that my kids were
>>> extremely receptive to the notion that some teachers were just plain
>>> ignorant.
>
> In Australia, teaching and nursing are the courses with the lowest entry
> marks . As a result, some of what they teach in school is so replete with
> mistakes as to be hilarious.

They both pay shit....which might explain it.

Thank John Howard's government for that....Lying little toad.

steve · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

Mitchell Holman wrote:

> vermicule wrote in
> @kafka.homenet:
>
>>
>>
>>>> just ignore what they were promoting... I found that my kids were
>>>> extremely receptive to the notion that some teachers were just plain
>>>> ignorant.
>>
>> In Australia, teaching and nursing are the courses with the lowest entry
>> marks . As a result, some of what they teach in school is so replete
>> with mistakes as to be hilarious.
>>
>
>
> Whereas in the US you can go to the finest
> colleges in the land and still come out a
> blithering idiot.

............

> "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so
> are we. They never stop thinking about ways to harm
> our country and our people and neither do we."
> George Bush, Aug 5 2004

I was thinking the same thing.....

That Bush went to Yale - and passed - does serious damage to their academic
reputation.

Billy · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

"R. Steve Walz" wrote in message @armory.com...
> Richard wrote:
>>
>> In article , Mitchell Holman
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Bush's low grades kept him out of the University
>> > of Texas law school but were somehow good enough for
>> > Harvard. Gee, guess which one his daddy the CIA director
>> > had connections to?
>>
>> George W Bush never attended Harvard Law School.
> ----------------------
> It was their rival, Yale.
> Steve

He also got a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard in 1975.

Billy · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 3

"R. Steve Walz" wrote in message @armory.com...
> Billy wrote:
>>
>> "Mitchell Holman" wrote in message
>> @216.196.97.131...
>> > vermicule wrote in
>> > @kafka.homenet:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>> just ignore what they were promoting... I found that my kids were
>> >>>> extremely receptive to the notion that some teachers were just plain
>> >>>> ignorant.
>> >>
>> >> In Australia, teaching and nursing are the courses with the lowest
>> >> entry
>> >> marks . As a result, some of what they teach in school is so replete
>> >> with mistakes as to be hilarious.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > Whereas in the US you can go to the finest
>> > colleges in the land and still come out a
>> > blithering idiot.
>> >
>> Berkeley is not the finest college in the land.
> -----------------------
> No, it's a university, and the second finest.
> Steve

Well it does produce a lot of blithering idiots.

R. Steve Walz · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 1906

Richard wrote:
>
> In article , Mitchell Holman wrote:
> >
> > Bush's low grades kept him out of the University
> > of Texas law school but were somehow good enough for
> > Harvard. Gee, guess which one his daddy the CIA director
> > had connections to?
>
> George W Bush never attended Harvard Law School.
----------------------
It was their rival, Yale.
Steve