The Crit Factories Are Catching Hell 🤣

[Impenitent]

it isn’t like they told Shakespeare to write anything…

but yeah, I think the drachma/euro exchange rate leaves something to be desired

[Optrader]

@WuWei

@Optrader

Sports does not build character. Sports reveals character. Do you admire Dennis Rodman or Colin Kaepernick more than Babe Ruth or Lou Gehrig? Lots of scumbags in professional sports.

All adults.

I will concede I should have stipulated “can when properly applied.”

Also, the properly applied is a function of the home, which too has become mostly disfunctional.

[DougBH]

@WuWei

@Optrader

and Shakespeare is actually reading.

It’s not practical reading.

It depends on what you mean by practical. Should we go directly from ABC’s to instructional manuals for equipment?

[DougBH]

@WuWei

Does it? Odd. Sports build character. Overcoming adversity. Practically.

Character doesn’t put potatoes on the table.

[GWH]

@WuWei

Troll and intellectual are not synonymous

Poeing.

[WuWei]

@DougBH

@WuWei

@Optrader

and Shakespeare is actually reading.

It’s not practical reading.

It depends on what you mean by practical. Should we go directly from ABC’s to instructional manuals for equipment?

Yes. No need for Shakespeare in schools.

[WuWei]

@DougBH

@WuWei

Does it? Odd. Sports build character. Overcoming adversity. Practically.

Character doesn’t put potatoes on the table.

Oh but it does. And keeps them there.

[DougBH]

So you want school to teach character but not values. I am confused.

[WuWei]

What? No.

[e7alr]

You don’t teach character, you build it through exposure to adversity.

[Nemesis]

I am not sure that adversity always has to be faced to bulld character, many people have good characters but have not faced any real adversity. Though I get adversity can be subjective.

[e7alr]

Learning to deal with lesser adversity is how the ability to deal with the greater adversities of life is developed. It is the failure to learn to overcome adversity that shows flaws in one’s character.

[Samm]

@WuWei

Shakespeare doesn’t do that. Shakespeare was immoral.

You misspelled “immortal.”

Which means you used the wrong verb tense too … “is”

[gooddad409]

@Optrader

@Nemesis

@Optrader

@Nemesis

@Optrader

@Nemesis

@e7alr

It is control of the word, what ever the means of conveying it, that is sought. Be functionally illiterate and you will likely have low language comprehension.

No one wants anyone to be functionally illiterate. This is we get into tin foil hat subjects.

Functionally illiterate people are easier to manipulate and control. The perfect American voter as our current administration demonstrates…

This old chestnut again. Just because someone votes in a way you do not does mean they are functionally illiterate and being controlled.

It’s very interesting that you claim in one post that language evolves and that methods of comprehension and teaching must evolve simultaneously declare the relevance of Shakespeare. I’m not knocking Shakespeare, I’ve read most of his work and enjoy them, and consider the language as one of the highest forms of English- BUT, functional illiteracy isn’t just about reading comprehension.

It’s awful difficult for people who can’t read our American Constitution to understand it, and if they can’t understand it, they’re not likely to bother trying to read it. It’s a circular disability that affects every aspect of a person. It creates ignorance and apathy in people as well. I don’t know and I don’t care. I’M ENTITLED is an easy mentality to produce in functionality illiterate people.

You are wrong here. There is a great push to produce functionlly illiterate people, not just in America either, and the success of that push is very evident.

i have no problem with people reading Shakespeare that has been translated into modern day language as long as his themes and ideas are not lost.

I completely understand the challenges many have in understanding the old form of English. For me personally I pushed my kids to get through that barrier some did and some didnt.

As a King James Bible guy, I got through the barrier long ago. I tend to believe most people could, they’ve just been convinced they can’t- again, it’s the why bother mentality.

As a King James Bible guy myself i had no trouble with the language.

I just didn’t care for Shakespeare. I had trouble getting interested in his writings.

I studied it enough to pass the tests but that’s about it.

I loved reading and read constantly (a wide variety at that) during my school years. Just not Shakespeare.

[Nemesis]

And nothing wrong with not liking Shakespeare but you did the work that was required and took an opportunity to expand your mind and outlook.

[Mountain_Soldier]

Crit factory… like University of Michigan?

How one college spends more than $30M on 241 DEI staffers … and the damage it...

Having recently embarked on a new five-year DEI plan, UM is paying more than $30 million to 241 DEI staffers this academic year alone

That’s fraud, waste, and abuse.

■■■ do they need 240 DEI staff for? I’d be furious if I was paying tuition for a kid to go there.

[Liberty323]

All those Women’s Studies and Social Justice majors had to land somewhere.

[Samm]

@Mountain_Soldier

Crit factory… like University of Michigan?

DEI boondoggle costs us millions — and harms students it claims to help

Having recently embarked on a new five-year DEI plan, UM is paying more than $30 million to 241 DEI staffers this academic year alone

That’s fraud, waste, and abuse.

■■■ do they need 240 DEI staff for? I’d be furious if I was paying tuition for a kid to go there.

From the link:

“According to the university’s Black Student Union, “85 million dollars was spent on DEI efforts and yet, Black students’ experience on campus has hardly improved.”"

What does that even mean?

[WuWei]

Nobody is grading them on the sLaVerY curve?

[Guilds]

@Mountain_Soldier

Having recently embarked on a new five-year DEI plan, UM is paying more than $30 million to 241

UM has 50k + students. Paying 241 staff members $30M, is about 125k year.

Math is hard.