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Funny, but we're not that far from this
No one actively prevents people from learning.
It's not like slave days where it was a crime to teach slaves to reach and write and a crime for them to learn how.
Yet, our culture - as projected by television - doesn't really encourage learning, does it?
This video is a joke, but it skates uncomfortably close to the truth.
What do you call a society that has every opportunity to learn, but actively chooses not to?
"Doomed" is one word that comes to mind.
Comment: There are ample examples that the dumbing down of America is real and that math is close to being viewed as in the video above, though it is satire. See also:
This Common Core math worksheet offers a glimpse into Kafkaesque third-grade hell
Here's another impossibly stupid Common Core math worksheet
Read parent's Facebook response to 'ridiculous' Common Core math homework
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It's a parody.
The video was made in response to another video where actual contestants responded to a question regarding whether evolution to be taught in schools (and implying that evolution is as sound as mathematics as an academic subject). Of course, it's not so funny if you think the parody was an exercise in looking down one's nose at others.
The video was made in response to another video where actual contestants responded to a question regarding whether evolution to be taught in schools (and implying that evolution is as sound as mathematics as an academic subject). Of course, it's not so funny if you think the parody was an exercise in looking down one's nose at others.
Hmmmm
Barbie Dolls are in physical form? I missed that announcement in the media. I guess we are truly doomed.
Barbie Dolls are in physical form? I missed that announcement in the media. I guess we are truly doomed.
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Needed a good laugh this morning Thank You but this is all too true
Needed a good laugh this morning Thank You but this is all too true
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