The 10 Priorities (from Biggest Job)

[Anonymous]

I consider it virulently antisemitic and offensive to make Jews responsible for the Holocaust.

I find it an incredible stretch to come to that conclusion from the discussion thus far, whether or not Hitler did, or did not, have Rothschild blood in him.  We are talking about one incredible sick bastard here, who transcends any ordinary human being's conception of "vile" or "evil."  I don't think that there is any race or culture that you can say definitively breeds this type of beast; nor do I think you can say that there is any race or culture that definitively can not breed this type of beast.

The world is full of Hitlers. The beast is the race or culture that makes him their leader.

[Ursus]

"Character Culture," otherwise known as the culture of the cult that is Hyde... More lame buzz words to take in those with less than critical thought patterns, or those whose thought patterns have been interrupted by frustration or fear about what their teenager is up to, ha haa!  

I also recognize that old 70's refrain, that touchy-feely pseudo therapy, which is still present and recognizable:  "who are you?  where are you going?"  Where are they going with this small collection of sentences and half-sentences?  Maybe someone has a better idea just where...?

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Priority #8
Create A Character Culture

There are many other cultures "out there" today that vie for the attention of our kids. One of these is the Achievement Culture that overvalues the outcome and encourages avoidance of risk, challenge and shortcuts. Others are the influence of their peers and the media. We need to teach our kids who they are, where they are going with their lives, and what it will take to get there. We do this by creating a culture of character in our homes and classrooms... laying a foundation that starts with us, as parents and teachers.

[Anonymous]

One of these is the Achievement Culture that overvalues the outcome and encourages avoidance of risk, challenge and shortcuts.

  Hey does "avoidance" bind to "risk" and "challenge" but not "shortcuts"?

 Normally I would think that this is like 3(x+y+z) = 3x + 3y.+ 3z  So it seems like what is being said is : One of these is the Achievement Culture that overvalues the outcome and encourages avoidance shortcuts.

perhaps the mesuggi Bruin has misquoted

[Ursus]

Hey does "avoidance" bind to "risk" and "challenge" but not "shortcuts"?

Normally I would think that this is like 3(x+y+z) = 3x + 3y.+ 3z  So it seems like what is being said is : One of these is the Achievement Culture that overvalues the outcome and encourages avoidance shortcuts.

perhaps the mesuggi Bruin has misquoted

Nope, strict copy and paste.  Check the link to the source, I always include them (generally = the title).  I picked up that gap as well.  One of my main complaints and frustrations about this Series is the absolute and utter lack of editing know-how, lack of logic - both in sentence structure and otherwise, not to mention lack of a fundamental grasp of the English language... And yet this is what Hyde deems website material!  Pffftttt!

ORIGINAL SENTENCE:

One of these is the Achievement Culture that overvalues the outcome and encourages avoidance of risk, challenge and shortcuts.

I believe what they meant to say was:

One of these is the Achievement Culture that overvalues the outcome, and encourages avoidance of risk, avoidance of challenge, and shortcuts.[/list]
They could also have said it this way:

One of these is the Achievement Culture that overvalues shortcuts and outcome, as well as encourages avoidance of risk and challenge.[/list]

I had to completely rearrange the sentence in the latter example, but its meaning is the clearest.  The "overvalued" items have been grouped together, and the "encouraged avoidance" items have been grouped together, with the twain camps separated by a comma.  

I suppose one could argue that "shortcuts" qualifies as an "encouraged" item rather than an "overvalued" one, but if you're trying to create a sentence that includes "overvalued," "encouraged avoidance," plus plain old "encouraged" (no avoidance), you're gonna run the risk of mental stumbling on the part of the reader, as is currently the case...

[Anonymous]

My guess is as follows:

One of these is Achievement Culture, in which young people are encouraged to reach the outcome by taking shortcuts while avoiding risks and challenges.

Character culture will be a hard sell if the Gaulds cannot pass high school English proficiency exams.

[Ursus]

Character culture will be a hard sell if the Gaulds cannot pass high school English proficiency exams.

I guess they don't have to worry about that.  Hyde School does not offer high school English proficiency exams.

But they did offer (for one year, I am told) the possibility of graduating with high honors, or whatever it was then called, the year Laura (Denton) Gauld graduated from Hyde...

I believe only one person ever got that award, although I could be wrong on that point, but we do know for sure... that Laura (Denton) Gauld received this award.

I do believe I am correct in saying that Laura Gauld is the presumed writer of these sagacious snippets of advice and worldly wisdom?

[Anonymous]

Character culture will be a hard sell if the Gaulds cannot pass high school English proficiency exams.

I guess they don't have to worry about that.  Hyde School does not offer high school English proficiency exams.

But they did offer (for one year, I am told) the possibility of graduating with high honors, or whatever it was then called, the year Laura (Denton) Gauld graduated from Hyde...

I believe only one person ever got that award, although I could be wrong on that point, but we do know for sure... that Laura (Denton) Gauld received this award.

I do believe I am correct in saying that Laura Gauld is the presumed writer of these sagacious snippets of advice and worldly wisdom?

She certainly appears to be challenged.

[Joseph W. Gauld]

Ah, BULLOCKS! ya bull-headed pig-nosed IDIOTS!!  I created that award just for Laura, wasn't that clear to the infantile sniveling lot of you?!!  She has character, attitude over aptitude, otherwise known as solicitation for a future Headmistress whose loyalties could easily be bought with flattery, har har har!!!

Speaking of Mistresses, anybody hear lately from Laura's good friend Andrea VH?  Man, that generation sure did bring lots of goodies to Hyde, on both public as well as private fronts, if ya get my drift, har har har!!!  I sure do miss that thick blonde so... such a good natured and trusting soul... heh, heh, heh.

Fucking over the student body, both figuratively and literally,
Joseph W. Gauld, The Educator (of mind and body)

[Anonymous]

Andrea seems to have survived her Hyde education and post grad Hyde tutelage pretty well.  She has some good press from involvement with non-profits

[Anonymous]

Character culture will be a hard sell if the Gaulds cannot pass high school English proficiency exams.

I guess they don't have to worry about that.  Hyde School does not offer high school English proficiency exams.

But they did offer (for one year, I am told) the possibility of graduating with high honors, or whatever it was then called, the year Laura (Denton) Gauld graduated from Hyde...

I believe only one person ever got that award, although I could be wrong on that point, but we do know for sure... that Laura (Denton) Gauld received this award.

I do believe I am correct in saying that Laura Gauld is the presumed writer of these sagacious snippets of advice and worldly wisdom?

She certainly appears to be challenged.

  Who did they have proofread this?  That was a pretty obvious GUM gaff.  I are an injun neer an I seen it write off. I ain't no english teacher or nothin'.

[Anonymous]

Although, perhaps I could teach at Hyde.

[Ursus]

Although, perhaps I could teach at Hyde.

As far as I am aware, the only critical criteria for teaching at Hyde is the ability to suck -- HARD -- on a Hyde administrator's anal orifice.  This is not to say that all Hyde teachers exhibit this phenotype.  But... if you really want to teach at Hyde, and you have no other qualifications than desire alone, I would suggest you polish your puckering up capacities.

[Anonymous]

I guess I can't then.  I do not give rim.

[Ursus]

Priority #8
Create A Character Culture

There are many other cultures "out there" today that vie for the attention of our kids. One of these is the Achievement Culture that overvalues the outcome and encourages avoidance of risk, challenge and shortcuts. Others are the influence of their peers and the media. We need to teach our kids who they are, where they are going with their lives, and what it will take to get there. We do this by creating a culture of character in our homes and classrooms... laying a foundation that starts with us, as parents and teachers.

What exactly is their problem with achievement?  What is wrong with being ambitious and trying to excel at something?  Moreover, just how much moolah does Hyde think it'll rake in during its fund raising drives, if everyone were as non-materialistic as Hyde allegedly is, when giving 'till it hurts would squeeze but a few more nickels and dimes than a more flaccid campaign might ordinarily yield?

Does an "achievement culture" necessarily overvalue outcome? Encourage avoidance of risk and challenge?  Encourage the taking of shortcuts?

[Anonymous]

How can we teach our children who they are?

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts.

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;

For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.


What can bow teach an arrow about being an arrow?