Read this book. You must! You must!

[Riles]

I'm just into it this past night.

Has anyone else read it?

http://www.richdad.com/books/Why-A-Students-Work-for-C-Students.aspx

 

[Riles]

I'm not starting another damn thread, so also...Game of Thrones, this Sunday!

Be there!

 

[Lancecastor]

Steaming students by IQ or Grades creates the rankings which ultimately push the less able to work harder than the smarter kids.

But an A student with a work ethic will still outpace a C student, regardless.

So the book makes a good point... grades arent everything.

But the stupid kids are actually smarter in life... Simply isnt an absolute.

 

[Riles]

Steaming students by IQ or Grades creates the rankings which ultimately push the less able to work harder than the smarter kids.

But an A student with a work ethic will still outpace a C student, regardless.

So the book makes a good point... grades arent everything.

But the stupid kids are actually smarter in life... Simply isnt an absolute.

I'm finding the examples of these less than academically minded individuals pretty amusing. Given that my oldest son is less than studious, and I struggle with his school to keep him focused on book work during the day it is a bit of a balm. Not that I won't keep pushing, but it's an interesting pov.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

This guy's theory would justify W.



Just sayin' . . . .



Of course, my grandfather used to say something similar, but it was more autobiographical than theoretical, I suspect.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm a psychologist. I went to college 8 years, took all the coursework and apprenticeships, and have the diplomas. And I've never met anyone who didn't believe they know at least twice more than what I know on the subject. My wife, is their leader.

But INTELLIGENCE is the talent for solving problems rather than skills for test taking.

The author is correct that schools exist to discipline children to become obedient employees, but it hasn't been true since darkies became pupils at public schools in the 60s. There is no discipline in public schools for a long time. Public schools now exist to employ 3rd rate people we call teachers. Teachers are a special interest group owned by the Democrat Party.

I own a letter written by a boy back in the 1840s. In it he details his school courses and the outcome the coursework will produce. The courses were all applied math, science, and business. What we call GEOGRAPHY was, for him, surveying and basic land features and their uses. In those days folks knew how to assess land and weather and animals and the other forces that affected their survival and prosperity.

Todays child needs know how to avoid the snares of pedophile teachers and crazed darkies and spics.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I'm just into it this past night.

Has anyone else read it?

http://www.richdad.com/books/Why-A-Students-Work-for-C-Students.aspx

Sound like classic confirmation bias for rationalizing educational underachievement. I've got to believe this would be a best seller in conservative circles, where educational achievement is frowned upon.

That "rich guy" author is a fraud and a huckster, IMHO.

 

[trysail]

I'm just into it this past night.

Has anyone else read it?

http://www.richdad.com/books/Why-A-Students-Work-for-C-Students.aspx

There's an old saying that is well known to habitués of the academy—

"Your 'C' students build your buildings."​

Big Government sponsored "Big Education" teaches and rewards conformity and subservience.

For the vast majority, complying with the dictates of Big Education is a low-risk, safe and secure path to respectable middle-class stability.

For the non-compliant or the hopelessly anti-authoritarian, the failure to comply is the beginning of an extremely high-risk life. The inability or unwillingness to conform inevitably leads directly to the "road less travelled." The vast majority of those on that path end up dead or marginalized. By dint of grit, luck and serendipity, a very tiny minority on that path achieve outsized success (be it monetary or intellectual). Those are the ones we hear and read about in the media.

What the media doesn't report is the fate of the other 999 of the 1,000 who went down the "road less travelled." They're dead or broke.




____________________

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

-George Bernard Shaw​

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[JohnnySavage]

It doesn't look like it has any aliens or alternate dimensions of reality, so I don't think I'd like it.

 

[Miles Long]

How many tits will be on display?

In Game of Thrones, I mean.

 

[unregistered]

 

[RobDownSouth]

How many tits will be on display?

In Game of Thrones, I mean.

This is the season with
well fuck it I can't get the spoiler tag to work

 

[Miles Long]

For Miles & Riles & any other GOT fans:

http://youtu.be/1cfNYdO--RA

That is pretty funny. I don't want to think how long it takes to edit that together, though.

 

[Riles]

All great points. I'm conflicted with my thoughts on it - I was raised in a generation where University education was the expectation, regardless of what bullshit degree you earned, but I lived in a "show me what you know, don't tell me" kind of world. College, where the focus was supposed to be more on the application than theory was the direction I took...but I'm not sold on that line of thought these days either.

I will likely direct the eldest into an apprenticeship program for trades. He's geared that way so far.

The book is an interesting read, I'll see what comes of it as I dig in deeper.

 

[Riles]

For Miles & Riles & any other GOT fans:

http://youtu.be/1cfNYdO--RA

Jelly, that's awesome. Thanks!

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

There's an old saying that is well known to habitués of the academy—

"Your 'C' students build your buildings."​

Big Government sponsored "Big Education" teaches and rewards conformity and subservience.

For the vast majority, complying with the dictates of Big Education is a low-risk, safe and secure path to respectable middle-class stability.

For the non-compliant or the hopelessly anti-authoritarian, the failure to comply is the beginning of an extremely high-risk life. The inability or unwillingness to conform inevitably leads directly to the "path less travelled." The vast majority of those on that path end up dead or marginalized. By dint of grit, luck and serendipity, a very tiny minority on that path achieve outsized success (be it monetary or intellectual). Those are the ones we hear and read about in the media.

What the media doesn't report is the fate of the other 999 of the 1,000 who went down the "path less travelled." They're dead or broke.




____________________

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

-George Bernard Shaw​

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What usta happen is: Folks without influence or other advantages made tons of money providing the world with stuff and services the world must have. They did so well at it that for a long time perfessers and government workers earned shit in comparison to nobodies with hustle and muscle. Today, though, fewer people start businesses, because the pols make it too fucking hard to open the doors.

Prediction: within a generation the private sector will be like military commissarys and post exchanges and mess halls; youll take what they got or do without.