mediocrity

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Mediocrity

CodingCoffee @GopherDanny (814) • Philippines 27 Oct 15

Our generation today is satisfied on MEDIOCRITY! Students that learn at schools are satisfied with what they have learned at school and do not do something else that would broaden their knowledge. Workers are satisfied so long as...

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...dumb it down...

jeanneyvonne @jeanneyvonne (5500) • Philippines 3 Feb 12

As a writer, most of the time, I write more for other people rather than for my own pleasure. I still have some piece of work for personal consumption but I usually write for other people and whatever their whims may be. The...

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A ribbon for participation?

bounce58 @bounce58 (17380) • Canada 23 May 11

I was with a few friends yesterday and we were discussing kids and sports participation. My kids recently attended a taekwondo sparring tournament, and although some kids were beaten during the matches, at the end of the day, they...

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Society encourages mediocrity

CynicalStephen @CynicalStephen (283) • New Zealand 7 May 10

This idea came to me when I was in my biology class :0 We had a pop quiz on cells and the usual person got 100 percent. When our teacher said his result though , lots of snickering occurred. I heard insults like "nerd" and "get a...

anti intellectulism

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Mediocrity

joshua_w @joshua_w (501) • Malaysia 22 May 08

"Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity"-Søren Kierkegaard Saw this quote on the web one day while i was reading the news, and gave it some thought while driving home from work. Mediocrity. It...

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Living in Mediocrity

chinggay73 @chinggay73 (45) • Philippines 2 Jan 07

Don't you just hate being just so-so? I mean, yes, you might know a lot of things, do a lot of stuff, have oodles of talents or skills...but don't have one particular thing that you do so well, you can be considered an expert on...