How could he notice that you are embarassed [sic] by our scores?
It's a figure of speech, capitalizing upon his use of the same device in the previous post. ("Have you noticed that areas [such as Africa] where education barely exists, democracy barely exists?")
Along that same vein, how could you know what 'rrufff' had or hadn't noticed?
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Or are you scared to back up your point with facts, and instead substitute your worthless opinions?
I only expressed an opinion: that U.S. education scores are embarrassing. And I feel that they are, for the reasons I'll be pleased to specify below. But this, I should add, points a finger to where your ultimate ineffectiveness in arguments is laid bare. You fail (or refuse) to understand that facts - or opinions stated as facts - require evidence. On the other hand, opinions - however threatening or odious you may find them - simply do not.
A fact has, or carries, the quality of being actual; it is a piece of information that carries objective reality. As such, it depends upon substantiation.
An opinion is a view or appraisal formed in the mind of an observer. It comprises a formal, and subjective, judgement. As such, it has no requisite qualification.
That should be useful - bookmark for future reference if you like.
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/~dorn/_disc5/00000054.htm Oh, how embarassing! [sic]
I agree; it is, or should be, terrifically embarrassing: you're citing a single post off of a bulletin board at University of South Florida's College of Education? Moreover, a link posted by an individual referred to only as "Snider," itself containing a dead link?
ROFL!
Allow me to cite the following results of the 2000 Program for International Student Assessment conducted along with the National Center for Education Statistics.
edweek.org
nces.ed.gov
As you'll see, in 2000 the U.S. scores only slightly above the average in reading literacy, and scores below average in both mathematical literacy and science literacy.
Incidentally, which one of the countries that is "embarassing" [sic] us uses a non-governmental education system?
I'm pleased that you asked. From my perspective, the issue of socialized education finds its' veritable Waterloo where we compare performance to the commitment of funds to education, which you'll note in the 2003 Digest of Education Statistics (see the bottom of the page, "Finances")...
nces.ed.gov
...cites the United States as being among the highest of the many nations studied in primary, secondary, and higher education levels. To spend that much with results as mediocre as they are is, to me, quite embarrassing. Insulting, even, to the extent that my dollars are used to continue funding it.
nces.ed.gov
I'm not surprised that you, who've spoken volumes about private media concerns filling a yet-unproven "propaganda" role would, simultaneously, defend the government-run education system; that is the sort of stuttering, Amtrak logic that your ilk seems to thrive upon. But I wouldn't expect the funding-to-performance statistics to embarrass you; given your affinity for citing sources like these (note links in posts)...
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...as well as your refusal to back up assertions of varying degrees of hilarity when confronted...
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...my conclusion is that there simply is no embarrassing you.
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