AugustineInUSA

@BasedPsychMD The idea of a seven-year-old with OCD and an anxiety disorder is an oxymoron And if you give a seven-year-old SSRIs you ARE a moron

Prescibed at 7 years old!? There needs to be serious consequences for careless medicine.

In 1971, for example, the assistant chancellor of the Diocese of Cleveland discussed the reality that Mass attendance had declined 11% since 1966 and he explicitly tied the liturgical reforms to this decline:

@SULLY10X Shame them publicly

She was bullied all year. So, when it came time to graduate, she refused to shake hands with the principals that refused to help her because they didn’t want to be accused of discrimination.

Today's college students seem to have no interest in actually learning. They don't want rigor. This is what happens when we reduce college education to a professional credential. Of course students used it to cheat. Why not cheat if the point of college is simply to "get a job?"

If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks. “Never speak to your wife in a mundane way but with compliments, with respect and with much love. Tell her that you love her more than your own life, because this present life is nothing, and that your only hope is that the two of you pass through this life in such a way that in the world to come, you will be united in perfect love. Say to her, ‘Our time here is brief and fleeting, but if we are pleasing to God, we can exchange this life for the Kingdom to come. Then we will be perfectly one both with Christ and with each other, and our pleasure will know no bounds. I value your love above all things, and nothing would be so bitter or painful to me as our being at odds with each other. Even if I lose everything, any affliction is tolerable if you will be true to me.’ Show her that you value her company, and prefer being at home to being out at the marketplace. Esteem her in the presence of your friends and children. Praise and show admiration for her good acts; and if she ever does anything foolish, advise her patiently. Pray together at home and go to Church; when you come back home, let each ask the other the meaning of the readings and the prayers. If your marriage is like this, your perfection will rival the holiest of monks.” St John Chrysostom

The key to getting kids to love writing essays is to have them argue a lot first. At The Socratic Experience, students spend months in vigorous Socratic dialogue in order to motivate substantive writing. 95% of writing is thinking. The sentence-level craft matters, but if a student has nothing to argue and no idea how to build a logical case, teaching them paragraph structure is like teaching someone to gift-wrap an empty box. We've discussed a pair of essays on "Should we bring the wooly mammoths back from extinction," one for and one against. Some students are all in with excitement about it; others are concerned about the potential for negative consequences. After spending an hour reading and discussing the ideas in the essays, making and hearing their peer's arguments, they gradually develop their own reasoned opinions on the topic. They are then motivated and ready to begin writing their essays. The oral argument becomes the scaffold for the written one. Students transfer the skills from discussion to writing with the help of their writing teachers: making a claim, supporting it with evidence, anticipating objections, and conceding points where the other side has merit. This is why our students perform well on AP-level writing. They haven't been drilled on essay formulas. They've been trained to think rigorously in conversation, and the writing is then taught using motivated examples from classroom discussion, with students owning their own opinions as they move forward.

@PropositoyVida Como pedagoga estoy totalmente en contra de los deberes, todo debe realizarse en el aula, los niños tienen que vivir y jugar y los padres no deben llegar del trabajo y someterse a las tareas de los hijos

En China, una madre capturó una imagen de su hija, que a las 2:26 de la madrugada seguía en vela terminando los deberes de matemáticas; los deberes aún no estaban terminados y la niña, abrumada por la situación, lloraba desconsoladamente

When I was teaching at a high school in Alaska, we read Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground" together. Paragraph by paragraph. We spent six weeks on that one story. Here's what paragraph-by-paragraph close reading actually looks like: I'd read a passage aloud. Then I'd ask, "What is the Underground Man really saying here?" Silence at first. Then someone would venture an interpretation. Someone else would push back. Within ten minutes, they'd be arguing about human nature, about pride and spite and self-deception. People hear this and assume I was working with exceptional kids. I wasn't. I was working with kids who had never been asked to grapple with genuinely profound ideas before. In my experience, when you treat young people as capable of serious intellectual work, and take the time to train them how to read difficult texts, they learn how to do so.

@GeneSohoForum @JohnSexton8676 That sounds like a much better system

@AugustineInUSA @JohnSexton8676 Aug, academic study doesn't suit 90% of young people & kills curiosity. My Bat Mitzah Plan would liberate all literate & numerate 13 year-olds from such oppression, offering apprenticeships, jobs, professional training. Interest in Higher Learning might start at 45, if at all.

Early in my career as a college instructor, I adopted a radical grading policy that I felt would be fairer to my students, while helping to preserve my own sanity. I hated that cowed look on the faces of my captive audience as I stood in front of a class. It also seemed unjust that passing my courses should be a prerequisite to a degree, that was in turn a prerequisite to a decent job, that for most students would have very little to do with introductory economics, even assuming many of them retained the material the day after the final. So on the first day of each class, I announced that all present would get a grade of C merely for signing up. As my concession to the system, those seeking a higher grade would have to do the work and prove themselves. The sign-up rate for my courses soared in response, with no one snitching to the administration about my subversive practices.  About 10% of enrollees ever showed up for class. But while the empty rows of seats bothered me, those who did attend seemed engaged. I eventually quit college teaching, vowing never to appear again before an unwilling audience. Was I just an uninspiring teacher with uniquely apathetic students?  In The Case against Education, George Mason University economics professor Bryan Caplan’s persuasive indictment of his own industry, Prof. Steven Pinker is quoted on his teaching experience at America’s most storied institution of higher learning. “A few weeks into every semester,” writes the eminent psychologist and polymath, “I face a lecture hall that is half empty, despite the fact that I am repeatedly voted a Harvard Yearbook Favorite Professor, that the lectures are not video recorded, and that they are the only source of certain material that will be on the exam.” Pinker adds: “I don’t take it personally; it’s common knowledge that Harvard students stay away from lectures in droves, burning a fifty-dollar bill from their parents’ wallets every time they do.” At Harvard, three-quarters of undergraduates score 98th percentile or higher on the SAT’s. Elsewhere, apathy is also the norm. According to data cited by Caplan, 25-40% of college students don’t show up for class, even though attendance is taken in some courses with a direct bearing on the final grade. What share of the rest would bother to show up if that weren’t the case? As for high school students, for whom cutting class is a serious offense, two-thirds report being bored in class every day of the school year, according to a survey Caplan cites. Whether Pinker’s absentees really are burning their parents’ money depends on what’s actually being sold. If, as Caplan painstakingly argues, students are mainly buying a  diploma, then it’s money well-spent, especially when the sheepskin bears the Harvard label.

When I worked in public schools they constantly talked about “closing the achievement gap.” They forgot to mention that Black homeschool students score 23-42% above Black public school students across all standardized tests. In fact, the gap between Black public school students and Black home school students is the greatest achievement gap in America education. I wonder why they never talk about it.

History has officially been made. Catholics are now almost 18% (~17.7%) of the world population 🇻🇦 at a record number of 1.42B According to the Vatican’s latest official records, the global Catholic population has just reached a staggering 1.422 billion baptized members for the very first time. That’s a remarkable jump of 16 million people in just one single year.

@JohnSexton8676 @GeneSohoForum The issue is that education has become about "signaling" in the first place. And signaling compliance and professional competence, not intelligence If that's what it's for, then we need alternative institutions for signaling vs. learning

@GeneSohoForum They’re not even mainly buying the diploma, when it’s a top ranked college. They’re buying the signal of “admission,”in turn a signal of intelligence. OC the SAT itself is a more accurate signal of that and you could create even better ones. But where’s the fun in that?

@ColoradoAlex3 You've never met him, know nothing about him, and you're calling him a "parasite?" This is not the American way This kind of cruelty gives the Democrats all the ammunition they need to stall the aggressive immigration policies we need to save the country

Living in the US for twenty years on an H-1b shouldn't be possible. The man is a parasite and I have no sympathy for him.

@TravisD2024 @Oilfield_Rando Vile

@Oilfield_Rando Exactly! I feel no sympathy for him. He made a choice and he has to live with it. We all have to do that every day!!

Wow I guess he should have built a life in his own country, not mine.

@Oilfield_Rando Your response is pathetic. We gave him rules and, he claims, he followed them. By his compliance, he missed the chance to see his dying mother one last time The idea that strong immigration policies require us to give up our humanity is ridiculous. Deport illegals and do justice

This H-1B worker has lived in the US for nearly 20 years and built a family here. His mom was dying in India. To visit her, he would need to wait months to book a consular appointment--with the soonest one available likely being scheduled one year out. He made the difficult choice of not visiting his dying mom because leaving without an appointment would mean separation from his children, job, and his other obligations. Much of the commentary around immigration focuses on how such bureaucratic burdens undermine immigrants’ ability to contribute and innovate. But we must remember that this red tape also prevents these people from being fully engaged with their own lives and meaningfully present in the lives of others. This matters too, and these seemingly non-economic problems will eventually translate into economic costs. If America is no longer a place where people feel empowered to be the best versions of themselves as they celebrate, struggle, and grieve, it ceases not just being the land of opportunity, but also the land of dignity and purpose. linkedin.com/posts/gautam-d…

@c0ntrabane Still, let us not forget that the two are not mutually exclusive but in fact mutually reinforcing

“Lord, during my time on earth i read Aquinas and Augustine and Liguori and-" “did you feed the hungry? did you clothe the poor? did you visit the sick?” “uhhhh…”

When I was at Harvard, the sociologist David Riesman took an interest in me and personally arranged my transfer to St. John's College in Santa Fe. At Harvard, I sat in large lecture halls listening to brilliant people talk. At St. John's, I sat around a table with fifteen students reading Euclid, Plato, and Dostoevsky, and we argued about what those texts actually meant. That experience rewired my brain. I learned that understanding doesn't come from being told the answer. It comes from wrestling with hard questions alongside other people who are also wrestling. The tutor at St. John's doesn't lecture. They ask questions. They let the silence sit. Their only role is to ask questions, not to lecture. It’s the practice I've spent my entire career bringing into schools and classrooms. I watched what happened to students, including myself, when the conversation was real and the texts were worthwhile, and I've been sharing this tradition with young people my entire life. Riesman saw something in a working-class kid and pointed me toward a tradition of learning that changed my life. I've been trying to pay that forward ever since.

@marishayone @WallStreetApes @ed_goblin I think 77 years would be excessive but a prison sentence with a fine and psychological counseling would be appropriate

@WallStreetApes @ed_goblin She should get 7 years for each duckling she killed. 77 years in prison seems about right. At least we know she won’t kill another animal. She’s a sick, disgusting, twisted, individual and should be locked up and away from society. She’s mentally unwell.

A Westside Jacksonville, Florida woman intentionally drove over a group of baby ducklings earlier this week, killing them The woman named Beverly Sasberry says she didn’t want the baby ducklings in her yard so she ran them over Beverly Sasberry has been arrested and faces 11 felony counts of animal cruelty I can already guess who she votes for