Are You Being Dumbed Down? Want to Take an 8th Grade Test From 1895 To Find Out?, page 2

That test is an urban legend.
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Continuing, can you answer these PRESENT DAY 7-8th grade exam questions?
Can a student from 1895 answer them?

Math:
edinformatics.com...

Science:
exam 8th grade

Algebra:
www.quia.com...


[edit on 3-4-2008 by battlestargalactica]

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What's the point of knowing more technical information if you don't know the basics.

"I can fly a plane... now if only I knew where I was going..."

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We had politics when I went to school, it was called civics. Now days public school systems don't teach children how to process knowledge, instead kids who do not learn are pushed along anyway.
All a person has to do is listen to many of these pro-sports figures who hold bachelors degrees, yet couldn't put two sentences together to save their life.

Originally posted by Kanati
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All a person has to do is listen to many of these pro-sports figures who hold bachelors degrees, yet couldn't put two sentences together to save their life.

it's so depressing, and true.

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Yes, I can answer the questions posted. Why? Because education of self doesn't end with acceptance of the diploma. Intelligent people continue to read and learn, adjusting their opinions as necessary and revising what they've already learned as new information becomes available.

My caveat is that the new information is rational and supported by solid research. One huge example of an area where I constantly sit on the fence and simply listen without revising a great deal is medicine. Researchers in this field seem to contradict themselves every other week.

They can't even decide whether eggs are good or bad for a person. I've simply taken the Buddhist path with respect to eggs - moderation. They have their good points and their bad points, so I walk the middle ground.

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I disagree to some extent. Ask a contemporary musician to use a computer and he or she will more than likely know more about the ins and outs of the computer's OS than folks who sit in cubicles and use computers all day long. Chance's are in addition to being proficient on a traditional instrument such as a violin, cello, guitar, or drums the musician would also have developed decent audio engineering and recording skills, computer skills, and maybe even know a bit about computer programming languages.

What I'm saying is that today some otherwise traditional professions require greater proficiency and integrated knowledge of many would-be separate disciplines. Taking your farmer scenario, I could imagine that growers of the future would want to know as much as possible about the artificial environments that they choose to grow food in. That if they manufacture original foods they would also have strengths in chemistry and molecular biology/genetics, pathology and virology. As well as having a technical understanding of the hardware that they use. Also, they probably would design their own custom software programs to control that hardware so that it would meet the unique specific needs of those growers.

For producers the trend is toward knowing more, not less. For consumers the trend is toward knowing less and not more. This is readily apparent these days in technologically advanced societies.



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