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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (48165)	5/24/2002 2:35:00 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

I never have understood how people can go on about life long learning, and then defend the fact that their graduates have learned little. It depends on what learning we're talking about. I can't see any useful purpose for knowing the date of the Louisiana Purchase, something I'm sure I once knew. Or who made the deal. Or the country from which we bought it. During the Cold War, it was probably useful to know that we purchased Alaska from Russia. Right now, it doesn't matter unless you happen to be in Alaska and wonder about all those old Russian churches. OTOH, I would expect students to be able to do word analogies or express themselves in grammatical English. And describe the scientific method, which I think was one of the questions frequently missed. You're right. Research and learning are easier of you know something about the subject. But I still think that, in the process of going through life, it's more important to be able to think clearly than to have information. In this environment, that is. If you're walking through the jungle, you'd better have the facts on which snakes are poisonous or how to treat a snake bite. For most things that we face every day, we have time to look up the information, and we probably get more than enough information. The problem is being able to sift through all that information and determining what's best to do.