BS, thankyou for your insight and calm response. Thankyou all for your opinions. I agree to disagree. I think most modern "civilzed" peoples have yearnings for a less busy, simpler way of life. But realistically it isn't all it's cracked up to be I think most people who currently live in cities
Whether evolution is tool of God is essentially irrelevent. You're going to have to explain why. It is the main premise of ID I think. It may not be useful for making predictions about the world, but suggesting that religion is useless to people is silly. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=
Apparently I need a disclaimer (for the Right's PC brigade): This article is not an attack on people's right to live in the city. This article is not a political argument. It is simply a philosophical reflection on how I feel about city life and a defence of non-industralised societies. If you like the city, I enjoy hearing from you, and you are entitled to
There were practical lessons where you took a concept you learned in theory and applied it in the lab, but as far as expanding knowledge or looking at alternatives, that wasn't the objective. So you have core classes where they present one approach to the subject based on generally accepted guidelines. That's their objec
"Good point." Thanks Ziggy. "ID/creationism is NOT in anyway a scientifically testable theory" That was my point. "it shouldn't be presented as viable theory." Sure cos you know better than every religious person that has ever existed before your God, Science. Very multiculturally tolerant view there, Canberra boy (sorry, I'm being harsh for the sake of JU ;> ) "They are only valid within itself, as
"It really depends what job." There are jobs for a knowledge of sport history, but the proportion is very small compared to how many jobs there are for knowledge of political history. "But is this really because of some conspiracy to marginalise certain cultures " I never suggested any conspiracy theory. The whole tenet of postmodernism (and this is where we get into Foucault) is that there is no single person exerting this p
I agree Furry. Chak, yes my portrait of "postmodernism" may be somehwat biased I admit, and anyone truly interested should read Bourdieu for themselves as he is far more eloquent. You are still more likely to get a job for having an in-depth knowledge of the history of politics than for having an in-depth knowledge of the history of sport. You are more likely to get a job for having the ability to translate French into English than for hav
It is all very well that you know a bunch of uncouth rich people. But their knowledge about sport and the way they talk about sport or whatever they are discussing there is not how they made their money. Examples like Paris Hilton are a bit different. There we are talking about celebrity and no one would claim they got there through hard work.
BS, the politics VS sport thing is an example. I was alluding to things like reality TV when I mentioned that... "each generation marginally changes the values of the society". I could expand on the example further, I suppose. Certainly many wealthy people are only able to talk about certain topics in very yobbo ways. And many working class people are very intellectual. I don't deny this at all. You misrepresent/misunderstand me (for which
The ad certainly presents a clichéd stereotype, but this does not challenge my point about how people come to their economic fortune. However, yes I have noticed before that it is hard for you and I to debate because we have very different philosophical understandings of the world.
I never understood why Clinton was classified as Left. He's a Right winger who talks the talk of the Left. So he bought a copy of a few Left-wing texts and then regurgitated them, that doesn't make him Left.
This is a short history of course, and I think I may have dealt very quicly with my reasons for why Communism didn't work. To put it succinctly, the over-liberalisation was too open to being manipulated by corrupt leaders. That and Communism is supposed to be about choice, and therefore, you have to have the majority of the population in favour of it for reasons other than "They'll shoot me otherwise). I also dealt very quicly with my criti
Liberal philosophy is based on the assumption of the free, autonomous individual. Adam Smith helped give rise to the French ideal of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite and developed an economic theory (liberalised capitalism) based around this youthful ideal as it was then. It was thought that by abolishing the enforced, legalised markers of class distinctions (like
"Why not go farther and let them do their own evaluations?" Well, yes another interesting topic of debate. Self-evaluation is increasingly being used as formative (not summative) assessment. When you ask students "what do you feel you need the most work in? What do you need help with? What don't you understand?", kids actually start to care about the task of learning, because they see it as a responsibility to themselves rather than a teacher
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BS ignores the fact that the very reason a child may not be able to read may be the conditions you are picking up on. In Australia, you would be legally required to report the things you have noticed. It is unrealistic and unintelligent for a teacher to ignore the possible underlying reasons for a person's misbehaviour or academic inachievement. What a responsible and pragmatic little boy that child in the story is. What a fantastic reaction
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That is the best JU joke ever!
"aren't educators supposed to be leading the students because they know better? " Ummm, no. We don't know better necessarily. And the current focus in education is on admitting that. I like to sum it up as "A godo teacher doesn't know all the answers, but they know how to find them". Ziggy, There has indeed been a growing movement towards what is often called "democratic schools" particularly in the USA and these schools have met with
For those of you who can't read my article "Tasteless Jokes About the News", here it is on my other blog Link But be warned, if you think that tragedy + time = comedy, you're in for a rude shock...in my book tragedy = comedy!!!!
I had more of a think about this issue overnight and decided that I Mundine's plan goes against the very idea behind native title. When Vincent Lignari stood on his land until it was given back to him, he was offered more money. They offered him better wages, but he told them: this isn't about money, it's about land. Now Mundine wants to turn native title into a money-making exercise for Aborigines. As explained in Leah Purcell's Black Chicks Talking,
And when I say tasteless, I mean tasteless. You've been warned. On Friday I had a great time with friends playing all the games from the old TV show Good News Week (sometimes known as What About the Buzzcocks?). They used to play a game called 7 Days in 7 Seconds in which players were shown pictures from news stories of the past 7 days and had to guess what t
I'm sorry but you haven't ever convincingly justified your point about freedom and it is a subjective judgment. I agree with your point about statistics and really bad studies being discriminatory, but I don't agree this has anything to do with subjectivism. In fact your argument is one of the main criticisms that postmodernists make of the pseudo-sciences (like psychology).
There is a controversial plan to allow individual Northern Territory Aboriginals to lease or sell their own homes on native title land . Link . The idea is that this will improve health in communities where many people live in sheds, tents and shoddy housing. Although I admire Mundine’s attempts to mo
Thanks Furry. Yes Nelson annoys me at times. He used to be reasonable when he was a Labor Party AMA President. What happened? The thing is that he contradicts himself so often because he doesn't actually seem to know what he is talking about in any depth. There hasn't been a lot of Red Under the Bed action this year, crit lit has been about it.
Um, LW, I'm religious and have never declared myself a believer in Darwin (particularly Social Darwinism, which makes even less sense) because that would be dishonest of me. Don't worry Leauki, I picked up on your sarcasm and thought it funny. Since when did I not care about victims of Arab nationalism? I can't recall a time. Or are you saying that because I have some scepticism about the way the War in Iraq has been carried out that I obvio