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December 10, 2007
Self-Esteem Triumphs Over Accomplishment
You have to hand it to moonbat educrats: their strategy of making actual learning secondary to stroking students' self-esteem is working. A recent international test reveals that American 15-year-olds are falling behind other industrialized countries in math and science. But so what? According to self-ratings, they think they know as much as anybody, and therefore can take pride in their inherent worthiness without becoming degraded by competitive endeavor.
Test analysts found that the less students knew about science, the more optimistic they were that the challenges of global warming can be overcome.
Don't fret, moonbats: an imaginary problem can only be overcome by draconian measures of imaginary effectiveness, which require no knowledge of science, and only a smattering of the hysterical global warming propaganda that is passed off as science in our schools. Just ask the noted scientists Al Gore and Laurie David.
On a tip from Byron.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 10, 2007 12:05 PM
Comments
I am a college history professor. This semester in my freshman World Civ class I had the students take part in a group project in which they were to plan an expedition from Point A to Point B in Year X. Each member of each group was to be responsible for a particular aspect of the trip: transportation, finance and trade, cultural differences, religious differences, political structure. The students were to present their research in class and to be graded by their peers.
I had one young man e-mail me at 11:46 p.m. the night before his presentation claiming that he "couldn't find anything" dealing with the different religions in China and India circa 1350. Despite the fact that he had received the assignment fourteen weeks earlier, he just couldn't find anything. I suggested four items for him to research concerning religious differences.
Come the next day, his presentation consisted of reading the list of things I had told him to look up, complaining that there was no information available, and telling the class that Hinduism was the same thing as Buddhism. When I asked him if he had maybe looked in his textbook for any information on these two religions, his answer was that the textbook didn't have any to say about them (there are of course, some thirty pages in our text dealing with these two world religions).
The class grade? Out a possible 110 points, fully two-thirds of the class gave this fine young scholar a full 110 points "because he tried." The kids I'm getting today have been conditioned by the public school system to expect an automatic A if they just show up.
Posted by: Uchuck the Tuchuck at December 10, 2007 9:46 PM
Uhhh PROF, why are the other students giving this guy a grade instead of the instructor??????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If you are not part of the solution, YOU ARE A PART OF THE PROBLEM!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: kuhnkat at December 10, 2007 11:03 PM
Uh Ohhhhh... Kuhnkat is back.
Dont worry Professor Einstein, he is only kidding. Ummmmm... arent you, KCat?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(sorry I couldnt help it)
Posted by: Freedom Now at December 11, 2007 6:53 AM
I'm not a complete idiot (I only went as far as a Ph.D, with no fellowships following). The total grade for the project was the average of the student grades for each participant, averaged together with my grade of their in class presentation and my grade on their written report. Since Skippy's written report was on par with his in-class presentation, he did not receive a passing grade for the project.
I'll suffer the derisive laughter with proper humility. It was a dumb idea to expect any kind of realistic scores from peer grading, and that's a mistake I will not be repeating.
Posted by: Uchuck the Tuchuck at December 12, 2007 7:26 AM
