How much more of fake GPA scores are floating about in third level student intakes and ongoing programmes?
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The school’s administrators concentrated on the self-esteem core values, not intellectual ones, therefore she actually excelled. “Failure is success.”
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Modern grading systems are a joke.
George Leef calls it “Grade Inflation”: Grades Just Keep on Inflating; Why Does It Matter? — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
In another article, he writes:
…in America today we have a preponderance of Takers over Makers. The Takers consume the taxes paid by the Makers and many of them have jobs that give them power over others since they are paid to enforce the rapidly multiplying number of rules and regulations. Moreover, the Takers exhibit a sense of superiority over the Makers, based on their idea that it is more noble to work for “the public interest” than to work in the morally dubious world of profit-seeking enterprise.
Being awarded high grades without effort fosters an “entitlement” system for the “Taker” mentality to flourish until everything collapses inward…
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Makes me think of Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”.
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Rockefellers’
I don’t wan a nation of thinkers.
I want a nation of workers.
The metality is there…
But has morphed…
As the economy is now a rentier economy…
Extraction of wealth; not production of wealth
Platforms monopolies; not industrial competitors
CHINA is a competitor…
AND, as Rockefeller said
“Competition IS A SIN!”
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This becomes a problem futher down the road, when those poor kids actually believe they are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I wished I had taken a picture of an apartment building in my neighborhood, a five story building, with the house number atached at the fifth floor in such small letters one can’t read it from the ground.
I wonder, who did that, what engineer or architect signed off on that.
There are roundabouts in my town, designed to increase flow of traffic, without having to stop at a red light. However, the roundabout is so small, its impossible to merge into traffic and I usually wait longer for a gap, than at a traffic light.
the previous generation is no better and are the people we rely on daily to make the world go round.
Keep your head on a swivel!
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I just noticed the name of the poor girl, African (Kikuyu/Kenyan) Origin : In the Kikuyu language, Makena means “the happy one” or “happiness” , reflecting a joyful and positive spirit.
Its all about feelings these days, no substance.
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Maybe her GPA was based on the group of students she was slotted into based on the evaluation tests given during her elementary school years. I know after I left elementary school where students of different learning abilities were all in one class, frustrating both for the brighter ones and embarrassing for the slower ones, in junior high everyone was divided into four groups 1 through 4 with 1 designating the brightest ones, with 4 denoting the dullest ones. A kinda human star system I guess.
The class material covered and difficulty was based on the ranking of the students in the class. Students in groups 1and 2 made up the semester honor roll. Those in groups 3 and 4 seldom if ever.
The same sorting continued in high school with less difficult classes but the ranking numbers 1 through 4 added to grade levels was eliminated.
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That grade inflation phenomenon seems to be backfiring in terms of producing fully functioning “workers” – as people are just not learning useful skills in schools, and are instead being goaded into hurling their hurt feelings at others, looking at screens, and clicking buttons.
As @ExternalObserver observes – there are quality issues everywhere where we care to put our attention (from building markings, to roundabouts, to bike lanes, etc). In Canada, these people with their inflated marks are having a hoot now trashing tax payer money by changing building and street names, and even city and municipality and park names, into a made-up academic language that is not English, and that no one knows – causing havoc for people who are forced to make address changes on everything (without even moving) into characters that are not even on their computers. For what???
Almost like such graduates with their high marks are incapable of doing anything, or thinking anything through rationally, and then rely on AI to tell them what to do. Not just in carrying out actual work, but the design of whatever it is, whether you’re talking building architecture, musical architecture, relationship architecture, infrastructure architechture, or xxx archtitecture – whatever it is, many just seem to rely on AI to design, and then impose these ridiculous designs on the rest of us.
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Yep, just read comments on Facebook posts, even
if AI generated they lack any rational response which reflects the algorithm maker’s mind.
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I think the magic word here is “Tolerance” to the shortcomings of others to a fold. How in the world did they manage to twist the meaning of tolerance.
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Indeed – that is the crux – how “tolerance” has been twisted and perverted and stripped of its original meaning. In the past, many free thinking individuals, in the western world, have been able to tolerate a wide range of ideas put forth at a dinner table or cafe with one’s companions. No one needs to be told to “tolerate” others on the basis of their immutable characteristics, as it is something that people do naturally.
But now, the woke establishment expects people to “tolerate” violent abuse and destruction of one’s own person and culture and religion, without pushback. And we are to “tolerate” shoddy quality or behaviour in the workplace or commercial setting, and meet this phenomenon with politeness (despite the money we waste on shoddy quality and services, also extorted through our tax dollars). It is as if the entire meaning of the word has been warped and twisted.
Our western culture needs to resurrect what this word “tolerance” means, and be able to distinguish, once and for all, what is tolerable versus what is not, and stand up strongly and decisively against those things which we decide are not to be tolerated in our culture (i.e., the church burnings, the wokism, poor quality workmanship, etc). And, at the same time, our culture needs to contemplate “don’t do to others what we don’t want others doing to us” (i.e., bomb dropping).
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Dr. Farrell’s book “Rotten to the Common Core” delves deeply into the phenomenon you mention, about sorting systems. We’ve seen similar approaches right here in Canada, and the results of those kinds of education systems (i.e., education by algorithm) are unfolding now in clown politics by people, “educated” in those “common core” systems, who have been groomed to serve as agents to build the transhumanist politcal agenda that is overwhelming and replacing our western culture.
Dr. Farrell and his co-author, Gary Lawrence, point out (p. 153):
Handing over education and assessment to a ‘superintelligence’ future is the paradigm shift from which a return to the days of humans teaching humans will be impossible. The replacement of books with computers, teachers with computer links, oral and written exams with predictive software testing programs, is ultimately the replacement of human culture with a Transhumanist (inhumane) or technocratic culture. To borrow the warning of the Greeks, Icarus has flown too high, and the inevitable fall from the heavens must follow…)
Kids of any parents who are opting for home-schooling will owe their parents a debt of gratitude in years to come.
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Whoa, the clown politics article was something, no wonder Canada‘a ruling class is pushing and enforcing draconian censorship…you’ve my condolences.
I don’t know if Marcuse is still a must read for political science majors, he was for me in the 1970’s. Depending on how an instructor presents and interprets Marcuse’s works, he can be seen as a friend or foe of society. Luckily my political science professor was not a Marxist, and included his ideas in a political theory class not as a friend of humanity.
Obviously the majority of sociology and social science majors weren’t so lucky at colleges staffed with an abundance of Marxist professors.
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The worst one, I think, are laws that curtail the right of self defense of home, family and self.
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Thank you, Bill – yes Canada is not the country in which I was born.
I’m not sure we really even have what can be thought of as “a country” – the politicians seem to be working full force to dismantle the country.
And what is very eerie about all of this – the same garbage is being pushed in all of the western countries, perhaps in slightly different flavour profiles. What’s going on in Canada feels super creepy, as if this place is an epicentre of perversion practiced on a gullible population.
At least you studied political science, and so you maybe were onto what’s going on a bit sooner than we were – we just had gut instincts that something felt off, without fully appreciating the mechanics of it all.
Yes, that is a creepy one – that the clamps are closing in around people who want to defend their rights to their personal selves, families and property. How bizarre is that?!!
In Canada, people are upset about gun laws – and yet, are guns even all that effective to be able to defend oneself from the arsenal of political, chemical, pharma, psychological, energy, and super high tech mechanical weaponry that are available now? It’s almost as if we need shields for all these weapons that are being aimed at us every which way, including the shield of inner resilience…
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I am currently reading a semi-autobiography novel about the Organization of North American Nations (U.S., Canada, Mexico) written from the perspective of a genius tennis player with a Canadian mother and American father wrapped up in the Quebec separatist movement. Interesting since meeting several French Canadians personally whom explained their positions dating back to France’s
claims and settlements.
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I didn’t phrase my comment well, what I was trying to say or ask is, when does tolerance transform into surrender?
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This is the crux of the matter, and it is the question that is not thought through by most people who live for day to day comfort and convenience.
In our region, where we live, it seems that most people have already surrendered their minds, and that starts with the stupid communication devices tethered, 24/7, to nose and face.
When I was a kid, there was a bully in the school yard, bullying myself and my younger brother. I was a bit scared of the bully, who was taller than me, and had an aggressive way of pushing the kids. I told my parents that I was scared of that guy. And Dad (who did not offer to go and sort it out with the school on my behalf) gave me this advice: “Punch that guy in the nose, next time he comes at you”. Parental wisdom has many valuable life lessons, and that lesson put an end to the bullying.
But, outside of not cooperating with the modern political fiendishness, wherever and however I can, I am trying to imagine fighting a robot or cyborg or chemicals dropped from overtop. The modern technology that is being unleased is beyond the scope of my imagination, and so your excellent and sober question even has me stymied.
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