Common Core
Posted by CarolSeer2014 11 years ago to Education
It's time to have the conversation about Common Core. What are your thoughts, Gulchers, about the innate evil in Common Core?
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While we're very happy to have you in the Gulch and appreciate your wanting to fully engage, some things in the Gulch (e.g. voting, links in comments) are a privilege, not a right. To get you up to speed as quickly as possible, we've provided two options for earning these privileges.
How did you come to your conclusion?
Also, I've wondered what it was about Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead that turned you toward Objectivism?
I want to be careful. My understanding is that AR envisioned her Gulch inhabitants as temporary absentees, who would return back to the country to restore and rebuild. They shrugged so as to hasten the collapse and therefore hasten the recovery
My perception, and it might very well be unfair, is that at least some of the people who shrug now here, do it because they gave up. Of course, three will not be a real Atlantis, a copy of AR's imagined one. But there might be ways to fight the onslaught of moochers and parasites in such a way that they loose quicker than otherwise. It boils down, I think, of persuading minds. The most able ones first, but gradually many, many others.
What do you think?
I wish it were only in the ivy league schools. It is, unfortunately, much wider in educational institutions and much deeper in mass communications. We have a huge battle on our hands.
A warning, though, people in high places watch posts like these--
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A book you should read is her "For the New Intellectual--the Philosophy of Ayn Rand." Taking from the particular to the general. That is, from the novelist's instantiation of her philosophy to the philosophy itself. You will get a taste of her Attila the Hun/Witchdoctor analogies.
You do seem to either worship power or those in offices of power.
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