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 admisaok
Male, 18-29, Southern US
 324 Posts
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Sunday, November 02, 2008 7:23:29 PM
this guy thinks he is better than everybody... "your friends will not make you respect the venetian republic of the late renaissance-early renaissance heh heh" |
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 sh4dyp
Male, 18-29, Western US
1 Posts
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Friday, August 08, 2008 5:08:42 PM
The Digital Age just amplifies the stupidity and Intelligence in people, and about the 52% of seniors thinking that the Nazis and Japs were allies of the US... well with all the tests we get now DO YOU SERIOUSLY THINK WE EVEN LOOK AT EVERY SINGLE QUESTION!?!? No we make cool drawings with the bubbles! but there is some stupid people out there so it was probably only 10% that thought that. |
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 matchstick
Female, 30-39, Eastern US
62 Posts
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:25:55 PM
Children arguing about their own education is like pigs discussing the quality of their slop. |
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 Karen_Lumb
Female, 13-17, Europe
28 Posts
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 8:37:20 AM
Britain has a problem with education as well, it doesn't help that exams are getting so easy to pass I mean a kid writes F**k off on his English Language paper and gets 7% he would have got 12% if he would have added an exclamation point at the end. What is that promoting? I know I'm pretty bad at English, but least I actually managed to write answers in my paper. |
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 OJpimpson
Male, 18-29, Western US
45 Posts
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Sunday, July 27, 2008 2:01:03 AM
Solja Boy. That's all I have to say. |
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 Telzen
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
22 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 10:39:28 PM
Heh I wish I could visit some museums, I don't even know any around here. My family didn't even have a pc till I was 14 (1999) and hell I've never had the money for much technology (don't even have a cell phone lol). I wonder how those that grow up after computers got really main stream will turn out? Though as to the topic I do find a lot of teens are way into things like myspace. Though I think its more a failing of the school system and parents. |
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 Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5382 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 9:51:04 PM
Oh... and Toostep... 21 grammatical and spelling mistakes in one post. Obviously the educational standard hasn't dropped just recently. |
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Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5382 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 8:33:08 PM
I believe the comments posted thus far
prove the argument beyond all doubt
"Better to remain silent, and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" (Samuel Clements [Mark Twain])
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 RedSuit1
Male, 18-29, Western US
133 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 5:31:40 PM
look even parents are disagreeing with this statement shows how wrong this man is. |
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 turkeyman
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
381 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 4:19:25 PM
life-styles change over new decades, no son will live the exact life of his father and people are going to have to learn to accept that? |
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 maxog1
Male, 13-17, Southern US
134 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 12:07:29 PM
"artwork, and documents, and politics" *falls asleep* huh? those exsist? i thought they were just in the land of the magical tv. |
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 Tooostep
Male, 50-59, Southern US
46 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 7:06:21 AM
I have five children. The oldest in his thirties, and the youngest eighteen. I have two that are married and have children, and are great parents who not only contribute greatly to their children, but to society as well in being hard working, law abiding young adults. I have two that are presently attending college and working, and the youngest just grauated from high school and is working full time.
Intellect is a wonderful and must needed attribute for any society to progress and succeed, but I believe morals and values are what really determines all individuals true identity and actions being the foundation upon which that same society is able to function successfully.
I truely believe the world would be a much happier, friendlier and safer place with more good moral people than a world of intellectual geniuses. I see the majority of young adults as America's greatest asset! |
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 Aqua_Bird
Female, 13-17, Europe
538 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 6:57:25 AM
It really depends on the person. If that person has a drive to learn, they can learn SO MUCH using the internet about anything, even 'ideas' as he mentions. Same with art. Art has now become more 'accessible' due to digital art being so much easier to create and manage.But if the person does not have a natural drive to learn, they will blame their parents and teachers, despite the fact that they can learn about ANY topic that interests them with a simple internet search. Oh JESUS, 52% didn't know Soviet Russia was an ally?! |
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 SageLudwig
Male, 18-29, S. America
18 Posts
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Friday, July 25, 2008 1:51:17 AM
Abacab, it's not so much "who" is driving it .. but "how" .. the current education system in MOST of the world is based on the idea of "copying" each other, memorizing books instead of figuring out your own ideas based on books and the world around you.It's "socialy" more efficient to have non-logical people, driven only by social status, because they suppose most people aren't smart enough to figure out what's right and what's wrong by themselves. Will Wright (Sim City/Spore/The Sims creator and a drating genious.) did a keynote a couple of days ago on ComicCon (What a cult source eh?) and he said something that really caught my eye. He said that if you go to a kindergarden and ask children that paint/dance/write/create/have interest in life to raise their hands, all of them will. But go forward a few years in college and less than 1% will. |
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 obhwfgirl
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
128 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:25:05 PM
He's just some intellectual elitist who thinks that unless your time is spent in the pursuit of knowledge, then you're an unmotivated moron.BTW, I think it's shoddy education and lack of intellectual curiosity that's to blame, but honestly, if this is America's dumbest time for young adults, I'd sure like to know how society even operated 150 years before school was mandatory. Remember when you're a kid and everything was cool? Where learning was fun? When we had nap time (btw, Kindergarten doesn't have nap time anymore)? Yeah, it's because learning isn't fun. |
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 phasoo
Male, 18-29, Western US
226 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:58:50 PM
No abacab trust me, schools NEED more money. Come to phoenix in arizona, or mesa. wait, stay out of mesa. |
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 Abacab2112
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
386 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:40:54 PM
SageLudwig
Male, 18-29, S. America
8 Posts Thursday, July 24, 2008 2:15:14 PM
Nice idea Abacab, this way the schools can make contracts with Exon Mobil/etc and teach us their ways.
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True, there might be problems... But I wouldn't say that the public school system we have now is anywhere near perfect either, with dropout rates in LA at 25% and even higher in other cities. Something is wrong, and it seems like since the introduction of the federal Department of Education and No Child Left Behind, things have only gotten worse.Corporatism in privatized schools may be a problem these days, but that's because personal responsibility has gone down the drain. Everybody expects the government to make decisions for them, instead of researching the options by themselves. |
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 shelerella
Female, 18-29, Western US
161 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:48:07 PM
Wha-wha-what?!?! Teenagers would rather hang out with their friends than go to museums? Woah! This guy is a genius! He has discovered a totally unexplored phenomenon! Somebody get him a medal!
This is not new news. Teenagers have been ignoring education in the name of friends for generations. |
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 Eika
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
29 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:55:13 PM
People in my generation (just turned 18, I can talk) aren't any dumber than that of another generation. I WILL accept that we- on the whole- lack drive and ambition, but so do dozens of 'adults' I know.In my class, I see kids who ignore the teachers and spend their entire class texting. They're there because they have to be; after school, they're at part-time jobs at department stores, supermarkets, or McDonalds. Several of them now have full-time jobs at those stores, and will likely work their the rest of their lives. A handful of us- maybe a quarter- plan on doing great things with our lives. I can name twenty adults off the top of my head who work full-time at department stores or factories, changing jobs often and doing 2 jobs at a time. When they're at home, they relax, watch TV, eat, or deal with their kids; nothing educational. Excluding relatives and teachers, I can only name 3 adults who do NOT follow this pattern. The majority is always dumb. Don't blame it on youth. |
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 psychoman364
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
35357 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:53:13 PM
2 points: Phasoo's first post embodied my sentiments: personal opinion. People all have different opinions, opinions that can't be changed. If someone doesn't like studying history or reading, it's their opinion and their choice. His opinions aren't and can't be inherently better than someone elses' because they're opinions on taste. Secondly, he's really not helping his cause here. He tries to make himself sound sophisticated, more knowledgeable and smarter than everyone else. I'm 19, and I have a fair degree of confidence that I could leave him with a blank stare with one sentence about psychopharmacology. Which relates to my first point - he makes his opinions sound inherently better than the opinions of teenagers, when there is no such thing as an inherently better opinion. |
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 Mitchster
Male, 13-17, Western US
466 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:51:58 PM
I believe the non nonconformities in teenagers are overriding the laws today.Way back when, teenagers were drinking when they were 16 years old: It was against the law, but who cares? Of course, now it's: You drink underage, and you get serious jail time. Teens are doing things teens are supposed to be doing: They are saying "F*ck the man! I'm an individual and I'll do what I want!" |
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 catbarf
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
1157 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:46:38 PM
"It’s not like the story of Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is any less compelling than Beowulf"You're kind of proving the point of the video. |
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 itsas333cret
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
112 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:36:14 PM
Everyone is an idiot.old, young, black, white, we are all dumbasses |
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 krizznitz
Male, 13-17, Western US
153 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:16:34 PM
Congratulations!!! Every teenager in America now knows that YOU are a DOUCHEBAG!!!!! |
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 NexusLetum
Female, 18-29, Western US
61 Posts
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Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:06:03 PM
Since no one else has, I'm gonna mention his comment about an hour or less of studying. I kinda think technology has allowed people to study more efficiently in a shorter amount of time so he just proves his ignorance. He should realize as a teacher that quality is better than quantity, but his teaching skills certainly seem to lack that method. |
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