Motivating Students, or Why Big Bird Must Die: Regardless of ideological pedigree, today's educational reforms all share a common theme: students themselves are not responsible for their dreadful academic performance. The model is intravenous feeding: the student will arrive and passively be "fed" knowledge, so progress is just a question of discovering the right insertion techniques. This approach, of course, guarantees failure since nothing will succeed if students just don't care. [ Personal responsibility anyone? – JS ]
TWEETS
- New Black Panther Party Case Update: E-mails Call into Question the DOJ’s Story
- Realism Fueled by Practical Experience, Not Ideology, Driving Tea Partiers
Selective Thoughts
You have to love these people who argue that border enforcement is counterproductive because it keeps illegal aliens from leaving the country. It takes a certain level of belief that the American public is really stupid to foster that position.
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The rage going on about the loss by Mike Castle to the “radical” Christine O’Donnell begs for the truth. Republicans are not being reactionary by selecting new faces over some stale old faces. They are reacting to the American people saying they don’t want business as usual from the “good old boys.” The Democrats have not heard the message as, for example, they renominated Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters both of whom are charged with ethics violations by the House. Republicans are listening, Democrats are tone deaf.
Does President Obama Think Our Rights Come from Our Creator?:
The most famous words in the Declaration of Independence — and almost surely the most famous words ever written by an American — read, “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
On Friday evening, when President Obama addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, he quoted that passage as follows (on the clip at 22:30): “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal [pause], endowed with certain unalienable rights: life and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
In Obama’s version, there is no “Creator.
“A story is told about Daniel Webster. During his days in the city of Washington the great statesman attended worship regularly in a little rural church outside the city. Some of his colleagues were disturbed about it. They said it lacked prestige. And they asked him why he attended a little church in the sticks when he would be welcome in the more fashionable churches in Washington. Webster answered that when he attended church in Washington they preached to Daniel Webster, the statesman, but in the little church, they preached to Daniel Webster, the sinner.” Unknown
“You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.” John Kenneth Galbraith
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