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As educationally relevant as can be. The education establishment is peopled almost exclusively by socialists who believe everyone should have a guaranteed job, work 195 days (or fewer) per year and not have to bother about those pesky performance requirements.

Cheers,

Grant Coulson

What this ad piece which would fail as a grade 12 composition fails to explain is why all the countries that are far more socialist than the USA, (most of Europe, Canada, and many others have better education outcomes, better health outcomes, many have higher standards of living, most do better on the quality of life comparisons and are much happier with their lives than Americans who always seem to be on the edge of some class and race war.

 

You Americans need to get out more. Your glory days are long gone. The rest of us live much better than you do with our socialist health systems and our socialist education systems. We could have all moved to the USA long ago. We chose not to because life is better here.

Doug Little

Toronto, (thats north of the border)

 

I am not sure what this has to do with "Obama's socialism"?

Obama like all modern presidents governs over a mixed economy.

The story sounds apocryphal and as another poster rightly says what is this doing on an educational site unless it is true.

What is true is that many business school classes operate this way - where groups, not the whole class, get the same grade.

It is also true that Japanese workers often work in a similar way in that everyone has to stay until all the work is done.

Lastly, grading is a new thing. This is taken from Jack Betterly (may he R.I.P.)

quoting Neil Postman in Technopoly (NY: Vintage

Books, 1993, p. 13):

"...the first instance of grading students¹ papers
occurred at Cambridge University in 1792 at the
suggestion of a tutor named William Farish....To
say that someone should be doing better work because he
has an IQ of 134, or that someone is a 7.2 on a
sensitivity scale, or that this man¹s essay on
capitalism is an A- and that man¹s is a C+ would have
sounded like gibberish to Galileo or Shakespeare or
Thomas Jefferson."

Maybe a standard we should go back to not the same grade or different grades
but no grade?

 

 

I agree, stick to education news.  The problem with the argument or reasoning is the assumption that but for Obama, the U.S. would be a pure capitalist country.  Well let's try that on for size.  I'm game.  I'd love to do away with the FHA that provides socialist federally insured loans for housing, the FDIC that protects the wealth of the rich and middle class in banks; federally insured student loans that allows mostly middle and upper class students attend college; Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security; farm subsidies and price supports; the national school lunch program that provides free and reduced lunches to millions of children; public school systems and universities; declarations of national disaster areas that pours millions of dollars in socialist relief to victims of national disasters; and on and on.  Yes, let's do away with all vestiges of socialism in the U. S. and we'll see who is squawking then.

Dear Mr Shaughnessy:

 

Your topic as selected is unclear; your analysis is sketchy; evidence is lacking; please re-write giving evidence with a factual basis, supported by sound citations. Also, should (as mentioned elsewhere) discuss other countries where socialistic tendencies have not been a disaster - ie, be exhaustive and not selective -- I note that you use the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph as your quoted UK sources - hardly a broad review of the literature or the media.

 

Alternatively, stick to education topics.

Editor's note: I was the one who posted this piece not Michael.

Very simple explanation of why socialism does not work across the board!  Bravo for capitalism!  Now, if we could just work some of the kinks out..... Capitalism was supposed to be moderated by Christian values and ethics. 

 

 

<a href="http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/socialism.asp>Snopes</a> says your story is a legend. Did you even check? Can you even claim to be a "global leading news source" without doing so? Really?

Editor's Note: Got your attention as well as many others.

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