I'm not so sure that the fact that rising stars like Rubio are working intensely on immigration reform matters that much to the Republican base, who are very opposed to it. I think that most Republican Senators and Congresspeople are going to defer to their base rather than Rubio's political ambitions.
My sentiments are in line with New Dealer's sentiments, I think that the immigration reform is going to either be filibustered in the Senate or defeated in the House. Which is immensely frustrating because amnesty for undocumented aliens is desperately needed for the sake of justice and efficiency. I work with immigrants for a living so I also have a professional interest in this.
My personal opinions of the proposals are that its the best we could expect. The provisional resident status is deeply stupid and inefficient. Undocumented aliens should be given permanent residency right away and allowed to naturalize after the normal five years. There is simply no need to make them go through a ten-year limbo out of quixotic need to inflict some sort of penalty on them for entering illegally. Its useless and the monetary penalty is enough. Its an expected shame that the right to petition for spouses is not to be extended to same sex-couples.
This is true of all education including home-schooling. Every type of schooling teaches a particular type of socialization. The British public schools like Eton taught their norms like the stiff upper lip. Finishing schols designed to turn out proper ladies have their norms that they impart on students. So do Evangelical home-schools or Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas. If your defining this as thought control than all education that involves one person teaching another is thought control.
I think it depends on the public school district. My public high school didn't really attempt to control the thoughts of its students because it went agaisnt the academic culture of the school. In really large public school districts, thought control is impossible on practical grounds. Its in the smaller but less academic public school districts that you get thought control.
Until the late 19th and early 20th century, you needed to know the Classics and Greek and Latin if you wanted to be considered educated in the Western context. The United States was probably the first Western country to severe the Classics from education.
The repetitive element was kind of annoying but at least Eddings was clever enough to create a plot point for it. What I liked about the Malloreon was it showed how the characters changed, thought hard about how even the death of the Big Bad is not going to lead to utopia, and it really fleshed out the compexities in the Angaraks, whom I always felt sympathetic for.
A thousand years ago was 1013. This was still before the Crusades started and Europe was a violent place. The people on top were knights prepared to use violence. Smart people were in the background. It wasn't till the 1200s that we really got to be in charge.
I know. I was trying to come up with manly jobs or at least jobs with a machismo culture that require higher education. Law, fimance, computer programming, engineering, and even accountancy have macho cultures.
They could study history or economics than go to law school or work for a few years and go back for an MBA. Law, for all its problems, and MBAs are manly. They could just man up and realize a college degree of some sorts is necessary these days and study computer programming.
I also think that a lot of men are under the impression that if they seem overly educated, it would hurt their romantic and sexual prospects.
The problem is that we really can't reform campaign finance in our country without Amending the Constitution since a lot of political spending is protecting by the First Amendment according to the Supreme Court. Good luck with that.
In many working class families, there is an implication that higher education is feminine or if not feminine at least effeminate. A lot of working-class men probably do not want to go to college because they think the manly think to do is work right away or that the type of job college will lead to is entirely unmanly. When you add the old stereotype of male intellectuals as eggheads, you'd see why people with a certain investment in a certain form of masculinity avoid college.
Now we educated types know this bulk. Business people, doctors, lawyers, and computer programers are all capable of being very machismo. All of these careers require a lot of education.
There are long-ties for tuxedos. Men no longer have to wear a bow tie again, unless they are in full tails and white tie. Bow ties always pissed me off for some reason. The only person who get get away with them is Churchill.
Wouldn't Aristotle himself be fine with the notion that philsophy had to change with the times? It was Plato who argued for eternal truths, Aristotle was the one who introduced the idea of subjectivity into philosophy.
American education never really had a strong classics tradition. Mastering Latin and Greek and their associated works was part of the European education tradition since the Middle Ages. During the 19th century, the Classics were stil the cornerstone of elite European education and the what the best and brightest studied during their adolescence before university. I have European friends who went to gymansium where they studies Latin, Greek, and the classics. This tradition was never incorporated into the American education system. I think thats why we have a lot of debates on whether or not kid's should learn the classics today.
The advocates of class-based affirmative action believe that its way too help African-Americans and people of color without causing bitter feelings among whites. The logic seems to be that since people of color are disproportionately poor than many of them will be included in a class-based affirmative action scheme but that white people won't feel bitter because white people will be helped as well.
The problems with this is that not all people of color are poor and middle to upper class people of color are often still victims of racism. They need the same legislation to help them that poor people of color do. Its also entirely possible that fewer people of color would be helped by a class-based affirmative action because the numbers of poor whites out way them.
Affirmative action, for all its faults, is really the only way to deal with the legacy of anti-Black racism in the country. Some people argue for a class-based affirmative action as an alternative but I think a class-based affirmative action is going to disproportionally benefit poor white people over African-Americans.
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On “Immigration Reform’s Big Tent”
I'm not so sure that the fact that rising stars like Rubio are working intensely on immigration reform matters that much to the Republican base, who are very opposed to it. I think that most Republican Senators and Congresspeople are going to defer to their base rather than Rubio's political ambitions.
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My sentiments are in line with New Dealer's sentiments, I think that the immigration reform is going to either be filibustered in the Senate or defeated in the House. Which is immensely frustrating because amnesty for undocumented aliens is desperately needed for the sake of justice and efficiency. I work with immigrants for a living so I also have a professional interest in this.
My personal opinions of the proposals are that its the best we could expect. The provisional resident status is deeply stupid and inefficient. Undocumented aliens should be given permanent residency right away and allowed to naturalize after the normal five years. There is simply no need to make them go through a ten-year limbo out of quixotic need to inflict some sort of penalty on them for entering illegally. Its useless and the monetary penalty is enough. Its an expected shame that the right to petition for spouses is not to be extended to same sex-couples.
On “Teach Her Good”
I'm sure it was a good source of entetainment for the entire admissions office, maybe even the entire faculty, for days.
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I'm sure it was a good source of entetainment for the entire admissions office, maybe even the entire faculty, for days.
On “G-d and Man and Sex on Campus: Moral Relativism Goes to College, An Historical Perspective, Part III”
This is true of all education including home-schooling. Every type of schooling teaches a particular type of socialization. The British public schools like Eton taught their norms like the stiff upper lip. Finishing schols designed to turn out proper ladies have their norms that they impart on students. So do Evangelical home-schools or Ultra-Orthodox Yeshivas. If your defining this as thought control than all education that involves one person teaching another is thought control.
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I think it depends on the public school district. My public high school didn't really attempt to control the thoughts of its students because it went agaisnt the academic culture of the school. In really large public school districts, thought control is impossible on practical grounds. Its in the smaller but less academic public school districts that you get thought control.
On “The Little Children Suffer”
The tree of libery must be occasionally be watered with the blood of kindergarteners. (Sarcasm).
On “G-d and Man and Sex on Campus: Moral Relativism Goes to College, An Historical Perspective, Part III”
Would romantic anachronist be a good term?
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Until the late 19th and early 20th century, you needed to know the Classics and Greek and Latin if you wanted to be considered educated in the Western context. The United States was probably the first Western country to severe the Classics from education.
On “Continuing Thoughts on Careers and the Workplace”
The repetitive element was kind of annoying but at least Eddings was clever enough to create a plot point for it. What I liked about the Malloreon was it showed how the characters changed, thought hard about how even the death of the Big Bad is not going to lead to utopia, and it really fleshed out the compexities in the Angaraks, whom I always felt sympathetic for.
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The Malloreon isn't that bad. I liked reading about Garion as an adult.
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A thousand years ago was 1013. This was still before the Crusades started and Europe was a violent place. The people on top were knights prepared to use violence. Smart people were in the background. It wasn't till the 1200s that we really got to be in charge.
On “On the need for political finance reform…”
It's what kids do when they use their teddy beat for therapy.
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Hipsters don't have good fashion sense?
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I know. I was trying to come up with manly jobs or at least jobs with a machismo culture that require higher education. Law, fimance, computer programming, engineering, and even accountancy have macho cultures.
"
They could study history or economics than go to law school or work for a few years and go back for an MBA. Law, for all its problems, and MBAs are manly. They could just man up and realize a college degree of some sorts is necessary these days and study computer programming.
I also think that a lot of men are under the impression that if they seem overly educated, it would hurt their romantic and sexual prospects.
"
The only non-fictional person who can get away with a bow-tie is Churchill.
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I think one of the worst aspects of our Constitution was the high bar set to amend it. It really could have been a lot lower.
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The problem is that we really can't reform campaign finance in our country without Amending the Constitution since a lot of political spending is protecting by the First Amendment according to the Supreme Court. Good luck with that.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HigherEducationIsForWomen
In many working class families, there is an implication that higher education is feminine or if not feminine at least effeminate. A lot of working-class men probably do not want to go to college because they think the manly think to do is work right away or that the type of job college will lead to is entirely unmanly. When you add the old stereotype of male intellectuals as eggheads, you'd see why people with a certain investment in a certain form of masculinity avoid college.
Now we educated types know this bulk. Business people, doctors, lawyers, and computer programers are all capable of being very machismo. All of these careers require a lot of education.
"
There are long-ties for tuxedos. Men no longer have to wear a bow tie again, unless they are in full tails and white tie. Bow ties always pissed me off for some reason. The only person who get get away with them is Churchill.
On “G-d and Man and Sex (!) on Campus: Moral Relativism Goes to College, An Historical Perspective, Part II”
What about lions and and tiger and bears? Oh my.
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Wouldn't Aristotle himself be fine with the notion that philsophy had to change with the times? It was Plato who argued for eternal truths, Aristotle was the one who introduced the idea of subjectivity into philosophy.
American education never really had a strong classics tradition. Mastering Latin and Greek and their associated works was part of the European education tradition since the Middle Ages. During the 19th century, the Classics were stil the cornerstone of elite European education and the what the best and brightest studied during their adolescence before university. I have European friends who went to gymansium where they studies Latin, Greek, and the classics. This tradition was never incorporated into the American education system. I think thats why we have a lot of debates on whether or not kid's should learn the classics today.
On “New Rule”
The advocates of class-based affirmative action believe that its way too help African-Americans and people of color without causing bitter feelings among whites. The logic seems to be that since people of color are disproportionately poor than many of them will be included in a class-based affirmative action scheme but that white people won't feel bitter because white people will be helped as well.
The problems with this is that not all people of color are poor and middle to upper class people of color are often still victims of racism. They need the same legislation to help them that poor people of color do. Its also entirely possible that fewer people of color would be helped by a class-based affirmative action because the numbers of poor whites out way them.
"
Affirmative action, for all its faults, is really the only way to deal with the legacy of anti-Black racism in the country. Some people argue for a class-based affirmative action as an alternative but I think a class-based affirmative action is going to disproportionally benefit poor white people over African-Americans.
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