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Comment on Watch 2012 Online Films by Harold

Harold — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:52:05 +0000

I am sympathetic to Robert Pondiscio’s view that curriculum is of paramount importance. I don’t think spending a lot of time teaching and learning “test taking strategies”, for example, is a good use of time. This is equivalent to trying to teach the IQ test as a curriculum. I would much rather they learn art, music, gardening, and foreign languages. Hence, although I am liberal politically and culturally, myself, but I feel that knowledge should be a doorway that helps us understand and connect with the past—because without a past there is no future. Therefore I tend to favor an old-fashioned culturally rich, humanistic curriculum, presented in a playful way, as much as possible, since with young children, it should be important to transmit the joy and pleasure of knowledge and not dampen their enthusiasm. I felt, especially when my children were in the lower grades in public school (I am not speaking of high school) that the curriculum was random and that there was little understanding of what was age appropriate and that this was true of the larger culture as well, especially the commercial entertainment culture (though this varied a great deal with the teachers). Also, too often vast amounts of time were wasted on busywork.

Comment on Most Popular Films of the Year by बालिवुत Bollywood

बालिवुत Bollywood — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:42:36 +0000

There’s no better known or infamous teachers union boss — or leader among America’s public sector unions — than Randi Weingarten, the cunning, charming, and oft-quotable president of the American Federation of Teachers. A frequent guest on shows such as The Colbert Report (on which she declared that teachers in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana skipping work to oppose efforts to abolish collective bargaining rules wanted to "make a difference in the lives of kids"), she is as comfortable on the talk show circuit — and playing the villainess in popular films such as Al Gore pal Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for ‘Superman’ — as she is at protest rallies. Unlike Dennis Van Roekel, the low-profile (and low-charisma) president of the much larger National Education Association, the quick-quipping Weingarten is more than willing to go toe-to-toe with big-name reformers such as Microsoft mogul Bill Gates and the notoriously combative Michelle Rhee, with whom she tangled for years, especially…

Comment on Impact Of Sexism in Sitcoms by x_1013_x

x_1013_x — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:05:54 +0000

Little Designing Women #sitcomnovels

Comment on Hannah Montana- TV Sitcoms by KM_Britt

KM_Britt — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:01:09 +0000

TV networks are poised to open their wallets next week and bid for upcoming Olympics broadcast rights.

Comment on Sitcoms And Sexism by brainerd tom

brainerd tom — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:01:06 +0000

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Comment on Best Motivational Videos and Films by stlouisbrowns

stlouisbrowns — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:35:50 +0000

You make a great point. The great majority of the GOP is not wealthy. I’ve thought a lot about this lately: the overall culture in America nurtures the super-scintilla-longshot dream of getting rich fast. — We produce very little anymore. — Our businesses are largely services, whether it’s writing software or whatever, running hotels, running restaurants, consulting consulting consulting, banking and financial horse shit — Many businesses are started not with the essentially agrarian idea of building long-term growth and value, but of building little holes that we can convince people are gold mines, and then selling it all as quickly and for as inflated a price as possible (witness the dot-com bubble) — Lotteries are pervasive and gambling is spreading — Entertainment is huge and kids grow up suffused in that entertainment culture Poor and middle-class folks in the GOP are nurturing the dream that one day they, too, may be wealthy or super-wealthy. And for the great majority of them it’s an empty dream, founded on nothing but this GOP-encouraged culture of luck.