readings week 4

The preposition part made me laugh because I’ve heard it too many times. The story goes a speaker was at a Harvard and was asking a student “Where is the library at?” The student responded “Here at Harvard we don’t end out sentences with prepositions” The speaker said “Let me rephrase. Where is the library at asshole?”
Some of the other tactics reminded me of my mother. Which is quite sad but she used to use many of these. Thankfully she has changed but it still gives me experience with the "conversational terrorism."

The Virtual Education article was interesting. "These kids had maybe never had the feeling of being transported by a good book," but could eventually support themselves by working computer programs. That is my favorite part but by far the saddest yet so true. Children are being taught so much new stuff and being loaded with new technology information but missing simple and basic principles. It even said working with computers helps improve test scores.
In Weeds, when Shane is asked what he learns in school he responds, "How to pass the state tests so our school can get more funding." I agree. Schools focus so much on the curriculum that will be on tests that students do not actually learn. My senior year of high school, my economics teacher handed out the study guide for the final and that was all we worked on all semester. It seems like schools are training robots.