Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Hyde Schools
Founder's Findings
Anonymous:
At least Gibbon was a true scholar, cited all sources and preferred the originals, even posed critique and analysis of his "footnotes"
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "No. 7" ---At least Gibbon was a true scholar, cited all sources and preferred the originals, even posed critique and analysis of his "footnotes"
--- End quote ---
True. My point is that people have been pointing at societal moral decline for hundreds of years. Social critics in the jazz age decried the loss of public virtue 20 - 40 years before the zenith of American Empire. It wasn't porn, pot or promiscuity that got us, ( I am assuming that you, Number 7, are a US citizen or live in an allied nation) to this nasty nadir, it was idiots like Rumsfeld and McNamara that squandered the blood and treasure of Our Great Nation. "Some blame the management, some the employees": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlAPDQdHqCY "Philosophy is useless theology is worse." Who would have thought a Scot could be so pithy my blue eyed son?
Be seeing you
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "# 6" ---
--- Quote from: "No. 7" ---At least Gibbon was a true scholar, cited all sources and preferred the originals, even posed critique and analysis of his "footnotes"
--- End quote ---
True. My point is that people have been pointing at societal moral decline for hundreds of years. Social critics in the jazz age decried the loss of public virtue 20 - 40 years before the zenith of American Empire. It wasn't porn, pot or promiscuity that got us, ( I am assuming that you, Number 7, are a US citizen or live in an allied nation) to this nasty nadir, it was idiots like Rumsfeld and McNamara that squandered the blood and treasure of Our Great Nation. "Some blame the management, some the employees": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlAPDQdHqCY "Philosophy is useless theology is worse." Who would have thought a Scot could be so pithy my blue eyed son?
Be seeing you
--- End quote ---
Aye.. My response was not to the substance, but a comparison of the seekers. Gibbon with his decades-long quest researching ancient documents and scrupulous scholarship, vs. Gauld with his narcissistic bombastic posturing, Reader's Digest, pop psychology, and LGAT experiences. Maybe that's an exaggeration of the former, but not of the latter.
As to substance? Maybe a tension is necessary between the moral condemners and the vacuous optimists, for them to feed off one another so persistently through the ages. An unfortunate, and sometimes fatal, tragedy for those caught in the mesh of one or the other.
Some sights are better left unseen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIil8k5QnFU
And I know I will be loosened
from the bonds that hold me fast
and the chains all around me
will fall away at last[/list]
Ursus:
Lols. For some reason, I don't think Joe is exactly the best person to be lecturing others about the "crass new value of personal gain."
—•?|•?•0•?•|?•— —•?|•?•0•?•|?•— —•?|•?•0•?•|?•—
Founder's Findings #5: Pay Students for Academic Achievement???
9/23/2008
If anyone still thinks that our educational system may not be unsound or even corrupt, they should take note of practices in both New York City and Washington, DC in which they are now paying students money on a monthly basis for academic achievement!
So students are not only now commodities to be "bought and paid for," but this practice replaces the character quality of curiosity with the crass new value of personal gain. To give you some idea of the tragic loss, while the system woodenly seeks to motivate students with such lesser human motivations, home school students obviously continue to instead utilize the more potent power of curiosity. A University of Maryland study of 24,000 home schooled students found that by ninth-grade, they were academically four grades ahead of their public school counterparts!
Don't mess with Mother Nature.
- Joseph Gauld
Anonymous:
Joe is no scholar. So yeah there is the part where I disagree with his premise and then there is a lack of scholarship. I am no scholar myself, but have dabbled in some management theory. My bent is to look at systemic causes rather then blame the individuals working in that system.
Joe is doing the Professor Hill. Trouble! Right here in River City, rather then a true Jeremiad. Howl was not selling anything.
BSY
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version