tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post3718280343777506523..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Eliminate Learning Facts?Always On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-75905321647977359502012-04-14T07:39:48.405-05:002012-04-14T07:39:48.405-05:00The Latin motto Adeo in teneris consuescere multum...The Latin motto <i>Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est</i> seems to have been adopted early on by the Jesuits -- certainly in principle if not literally.<br /><br />What I see there is tells me that INDOCTRINATION of one kind or other is vital in forming character.<br /><br />The Marxists have been in the process of PERVERTING and REVERSING centuries of CHRISTIAN doctrine and replacing it with diabolical human constructs now causing Western Civilization to march in lock step toward The Abyss.<br /><br />Of course you can neither embrace nor reject "God" without knowing who -- and what -- "He" is. <br /><br />Despite our vast capacity for cleverness, inventiveness and the acquisition of superfluous -- often distracting, misleading -- knowledge, human understanding of Truth remains in its infancy.<br /><br /><i>[HINT: God IS Truth -- among several other elemental-seminal things each of which are synonmous with -- and inseparable from -- each other]</i><br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-6746093911941963992012-04-14T07:27:34.332-05:002012-04-14T07:27:34.332-05:00Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.
So impor...<i>Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est</i>. <br /><br />So important is it to grow inured to anything in early youth. There is a value of instilling sound principles in the mind during the early years. So imperative it is to form habits in early years. —Vergil<br /><br />________________<br /><br />A MINOR POINT OF INTEREST:<br /><br />Is it Virgil or Vergil?<br /><br />The name of the Augustan Age poet and creator of the Roman nationalepic, The Aeneid, is sometimes spelled Virgil and sometimes Vergil. Which is right?<br /><br />Answer:<br /><br />While it is common to have at least 2 different spellings for Greek names, it is not so common with the names of ancient Romans. That's because the Greek alphabet is substantially different from ours whereas the Latin alphabet is substantially the same, so you wouldn't expect variable spelling for the name of Virgil/Vergil.<br /><br />There are some differences between the letters of the alphabet that the Romans used and the ones used in English. The Romans had a few fewer letters. Consonantal "i" used alternatively for "j" and "u" used alternatively for "v" are potentially problematic. You might see Iulius or Julius, for example. But the Latin vowels and the English vowels are written in the same way. A Latin vocalic "i" is written as an "i" in English, and a Latin "e" is written as an English "e".<br /><br /><b>The Roman poet who wrote the great Latin epic The Aeneid was called <i>Vergilius</i> by the Romans. This is shortened in English to Vergil. <br /><br />So, <i>Vergil</i> is actually correct</b>, but as in most matters of absolutes, there is good reason for the alternative.<br /><br />According to Gilbert Highet in The Classical Tradition, the misspelling (Virgil) began early, possibly as the result of Vergil's nickname Parthenias which was based on the poet's sexual restraint. In the Middle Ages the name Virgil was thought to refer to his magical (as in the virga magic wand) powers.<br /><br />It would seem that modern literature classes may spell Vergil's name Virgil. I never studied Vergil outside of the context of Latin, so for me, the name remains Vergil, but Virgil may by now be the more popular spelling.<br /><br /><br />http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/aeneid/f/VirgilVergil.htm<br /><br />Submitted by FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-73560884779743611012012-04-12T20:58:57.465-05:002012-04-12T20:58:57.465-05:00Lib-Mann
What that article most clearly illustra...Lib-Mann<br /><br /> What that article most clearly illustrates is the usual leftist bias of the Guardian. They apparently object to:<br /><br /> "One amendment requires that students be taught that economic prosperity requires "minimal government intrusion and taxation"."<br /><br /> " The new curriculum asserts that "the right to keep and bear arms" is an important element of a democratic society. "<br /><br /> " a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy."<br /><br /> Something wrong with any of that? Other than it annoys you?<br /><br /> Texans deciding what to teach their children is their businessviburnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15381796879179539552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-2478345358607902632012-04-12T17:50:27.455-05:002012-04-12T17:50:27.455-05:00Sam Huntington said..."State boards of educat...Sam Huntington said..."State boards of education dictate curricula; textbook companies merely incorporate what the leftists tell them"<br /><br />Yeah, tell that to Texas who is now using new text with all kinds of wacko distortions. I've been in education for 30 years. College Level. I know what I'm talking about. If you want to label this a another 'liberal plot' you're showing your ignorance.<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-historyLiberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-3958339064612841222012-04-11T17:25:12.471-05:002012-04-11T17:25:12.471-05:00Very interesting and sad at the same time.
This r...Very interesting and sad at the same time.<br /><br />This reminds me of something that went on in "teaching" colleges like George Peabody College (not part of Vanderbilt). They adopted the policy that teachers did not need to KNOW a subject in order to teach it. They simply needed to know HOW to teach, and could then teach any subject. Didn't work.<br /><br />Same thing now with schools not teaching spelling, or not checking spelling, because students have "spell check".<br /><br />Should a disaster happen and humans be left to their own devices/knowledge, we would be doomed. Well, some would be doomed, some would still have knowledge in their brain/computer banks, so it would be the survival of the fittest to the nth degree.<br /><br />Debbie<br />Right Truth<br />http://www.righttruth.typepad.comRight Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18274108313586611205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-63467837944941518902012-04-11T14:29:31.373-05:002012-04-11T14:29:31.373-05:00Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.
For those...<i>Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est.</i><br /><br />For those who are interested in <a href="http://wordinfo.info/unit/3055/page:11/s:adsum" rel="nofollow">the meaning</a> of that Latin proverb:<br /><br /><b>Literal:</b> <i>So important is it to grow inured to anything in early youth.</i><br /><br /><b>Beyond literal: </b><i>There is a value of instilling sound principles in the mind during the early years.<br /><br />So imperative it is to form habits in early years. — Vergil<br /><br />'Tis education forms the common mind;<br />Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. — Alexander Pope (English poet and satirist; 1688-1744), in his Moral Essays. <br /></i>Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-7905548566558517012012-04-11T14:06:11.602-05:002012-04-11T14:06:11.602-05:00I agree, Speedy … but if you and I contend the exp...I agree, Speedy … but if you and I contend the expression “sound principles” excludes Marxist ideology, it is not hard to imagine that a devout communist would accuse us of being subjective. Our failure to “stand our ground” against what has been a neo-communist insurgency upon American values places us in this untenable position. The only solution is for parents to remove their children from public educational institutions, and place them with home schoolteachers or in private academies. Sadly, this is not likely to happen because most parents today are themselves a product of neo-communist indoctrination.Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-24074523518563183702012-04-11T13:41:48.883-05:002012-04-11T13:41:48.883-05:00Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est<i>Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est</i>Speedy Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01640242783952822072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-33256357251323011842012-04-11T10:26:27.521-05:002012-04-11T10:26:27.521-05:00I know lots of facts, most of them trivial, howeve...I know lots of facts, most of them trivial, however, I find that when a little known trivial fact is needed in certain unusual situations, the knowledge comes in mighty handy.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15633208787250567256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-49221252373399956692012-04-11T09:14:22.628-05:002012-04-11T09:14:22.628-05:00Don't worry about learning facts, kiddies, let...Don't worry about learning facts, kiddies, let's have a sing-a-long instead:<br /><br />Barack Hussein Obama... <br /><br />mmm... mmm... mmm.cubehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788126579896276199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-80534533792120927292012-04-10T23:31:26.650-05:002012-04-10T23:31:26.650-05:00Okay… Thanks, you git!
Ducky likes to pretend tha...Okay… Thanks, you git!<br /><br />Ducky likes to pretend that he and his ilk are superior to any other; it merely proves that Ducky is delusional. But let us examine the complex thought of Ducky’s hero, <b>Leon Trotsky</b>. “None of us desires or is able to dispute the will of the Party. Clearly, the Party is always right... We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being in the right.”<br /><br />This makes one wonder what the Russian people were thinking —even the Bolsheviks— when they elevated such a douche bag to national leadership. With that said, I think it is true that the creep to socialism and communism in America is impossible without democracy —and a leftist run public education apparatchik that each and every year makes our children dumber than the year before. <br /><br />I suspect that having Trotsky slugged with an axe might have been Stalin’s only contribution to humanity.Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-53741159548987460782012-04-10T22:16:00.885-05:002012-04-10T22:16:00.885-05:00Lenin? I'm a Trotskyite you git.Lenin? I'm a Trotskyite you git.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-41349102024898471172012-04-10T21:41:05.641-05:002012-04-10T21:41:05.641-05:00Ducky likes to pretend that he and his ilk are sup...Ducky likes to pretend that he and his ilk are superior to any other; it merely proves that Ducky is delusional. But let us examine the complex thought of Ducky’s hero, Vladimir Lenin: “Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.”<br /> <br />In contrast, we have an example of complex thought of a true American—whom Ducky detests more than anything. Thomas Jefferson advised, “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”<br /><br />If anyone is incapable of complex thought, it is the clowns who elected Barack Obama.Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-47886055484645976892012-04-10T21:29:37.073-05:002012-04-10T21:29:37.073-05:00If the Internet goes down, everything closes. I...If the Internet goes down, everything closes. I'm pretty sure that most, if not all major store cash registers are connected through Internet networking to inventory programs, so that inventories can be 100% up to date. When the Internet shuts off, most commerce in the United States will abrubtly cease. You won't be able to buy groceries. So if I were to attack the U.S. guess what I'd hit first?<br /><br />Likewise, telephone systems are all going over to the Internet. No emergency services, no communication and coordination.<br /><br />It doesn't even have to be an enemy attack. A really major solar flare could do the job.<br /><br />Humans are so smart. What a piece of work is man, so noble in reason.Black Sheephttp://www.newsbleat.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-34960759476588236902012-04-10T21:25:55.547-05:002012-04-10T21:25:55.547-05:00RWT: "...the easier and faster it becomes to ...RWT: "...the easier and faster it becomes to find information, the dumber and more ignorant some of us happen to become."<br /><br /> The problem with the information age is that the mere possession of facts confers neither knowledge nor understanding. It just creates 'instant experts' on any and every topic, who don't know what they don't know, and consequently make fools of themselves.viburnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15381796879179539552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-14005559395672679012012-04-10T21:10:29.057-05:002012-04-10T21:10:29.057-05:00How about we replace the teachers with smart phone...How about we replace the teachers with smart phones, I'll bet the fellows enthusiasm for technology will quickly evaporate.<br /><br />The way I'm seeing things, the easier and faster it becomes to find information, the dumber and more ignorant some of us happen to become. Particularly on the liberal side.<br /><br />"...lack of complex thought in the conservative mind."<br /><br />That's based on nothing more than bigotry and dislike of Conservatives. Time to get over your fear and ignorance ducky.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-40056036686410881392012-04-10T20:52:41.304-05:002012-04-10T20:52:41.304-05:00@Lib- Mann: And what, pray tell, would they be cr...@Lib- Mann: And what, pray tell, would they be critically thinking about if they know nothing?viburnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15381796879179539552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-81972916678515384012012-04-10T20:50:00.484-05:002012-04-10T20:50:00.484-05:00@@Libtard
State boards of education dictate curri...@@Libtard<br /><br />State boards of education dictate curricula; textbook companies merely incorporate what the leftists tell them, and collect their big fat checks from the taxpayer. In a few decades, after you’ve matured, you may gain some insight into how corrupt the education system is, including the swindle called “state mandated testing.” It goes a long way to explain why you are incapable of critical thinking.Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-9248743283823445142012-04-10T19:53:57.045-05:002012-04-10T19:53:57.045-05:00The problem is textbooks dictate curriculum in mos...The problem is textbooks dictate curriculum in most classrooma therefore precluding the development of critical thinking skills.Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-8322629890076886262012-04-10T18:26:43.336-05:002012-04-10T18:26:43.336-05:00The precise date might not be important, duckmeist...The precise date might not be important, duckmeister, but the chronological sequence of events certainly IS. After all, A random collection of facts is useless w/o an ordered sequence to string it together with. And dates facilitate retention of said sequence, despite the inutlity of date information for other purposes.Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-24825177032935291412012-04-10T18:03:26.767-05:002012-04-10T18:03:26.767-05:00I HAD A LONG DAY TODAY (FIRST DAY BACK TO CLASSES ...<b>I HAD A LONG DAY TODAY (FIRST DAY BACK TO CLASSES AFTER EASTER BREAK). BUT I WILL TAKE A MOMENT TO TYPE IN ONE COMMENT HERE.</b><br /><br />Duck,<br /><i>it is better to understand the political implications of say signing the Magna Carta than it is to know the exact date</i><br /><br />1. In order to discuss those implications, one has to know <b>WHAT</b> is in the document and the background leading up to what precipitate the drafting and signing of the document. Having those <b>FACTS</b> in one's head facilitates moving on to the further learning and analysis. Plus, knowing facts is a time saver, particularly in a classroom setting, when time is limited.<br /><br />2. I myself am not big on memorizing dates. I've never had much of a head for numbers. Nonetheless, June 15, 1215 is a date that I easily recall -- for whatever reason. I do think that it is essential that people know at least the <b>CENTURY</b> so that one can understand the process of the development of the implications you mentioned.<br /><br />It is my contention that understanding is developed because one knows facts. Furthermore, having access to facts doesn't necessarily lead to a greater understanding of principles, developments, implications, etc. Knowing and processing facts is one step toward the greater understanding.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-6527228827779882042012-04-10T16:52:42.474-05:002012-04-10T16:52:42.474-05:00Ducky: "In mathematics when has a student mas...Ducky: "In mathematics when has a student mastered enough that a calculator can be used to eliminate the mind numbing drudgery of calculation?"<br /><br /> When they can do it without the calculator. Not before. <br /><br /> "Exercising the mind with creative thought is superior to rote."<br /><br /> Disciplining the mind with logic both mathematical and propositional is probably more useful. At the very least it's of immense aid in seeing through all those 'creative' ideas and solutions based on fallacious reasoning, misconception, misperception, and wishful thinking that are all the vogue these daysviburnumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15381796879179539552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-28826786759145349382012-04-10T16:46:15.012-05:002012-04-10T16:46:15.012-05:00No z, it means that it is better to understand the...No z, it means that it is better to understand the political implications of say signing the Magna Carta than it is to know the exact date.<br /><br />Simple.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-81281981842707676012012-04-10T16:01:27.196-05:002012-04-10T16:01:27.196-05:00It's a tough question. In mathematics when has...It's a tough question. In mathematics when has a student mastered enough that a calculator can be used to eliminate the mind numbing drudgery of calculation?<br /><br />Math may be the most obvious (and most valid) but we see it in the abundance of spell checks and the like.<br /><br />Exercising the mind with creative thought is superior to rote.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-84126182765999869602012-04-10T15:18:01.637-05:002012-04-10T15:18:01.637-05:00Silverfiddle,
I have repaired the broken link.
Fo...Silverfiddle,<br />I have repaired the broken link.<br /><br />For some reason, Blogger inserted some broken code! I've been having that problem with Blogger accessed via Firefox with the OS Windows 7. **sigh**Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.com