Why Walk Around a Dumb-butt?
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
September 30, 2016 11:51am CST
Why Walk Around a Dumb-butt? -
There is an answer that is often used to respond to the question, "How old are you?" That answer is I am old enough to know better, but young enough to learn."
In our current time there seems to be plenty of complaining about the existing education system, at least as to that system not serving our youth and our countries as well as it should. This results in what you might expect - under-educated kids who grow up to become adults who are so often what I like to think of as "dumb-butts," people who have a hard time spelling their own names correctly, store clerks who cannot figure out how much change to give back to a customer who pays for a two-dollar purchase with a twenty-dollar bill, or perhaps it is those who don't know the difference between a hurricane and a tornado.
You get the picture, don't you?
The truth is that there are some teachers who don't really know how to teach, and they are so often confronted by students (and their parents and guardians) who don't want to learn. That is not the best of situations, is it?
But there is help out of these situations. This discussion is here so that you can learn of one of those helpful ways for those who want to improve themselves despite the opposing forces of low-grade schools, sub-par instructors, and other things such as insufficient school money or the scarcity of time to attend classes in regular "sit-down" school settings.
Free of cost to users, really excellent in the way of instruction, and comprehensive in its depth of available courses of study, here is the link to "Free-Ed dot net," probably the best of the best Internet education websites, that has been quietly doing its educational heavy lifting since 1997 - almost 20 years ago.
If you or someone you know needs to learn, now is a good time for you to learn about "Free-Ed.net."
While you are on that website, grab up some interesting knowledge for yourself. You may be "old enough to know how to use your keyboard, but you are also young enough to learn something new."
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@topffer (42155)
• France
30 Sep 16
I do not know where the problem has its source in USA. Here I think it is because young children cannot repeat anymore, at least in public schools. If a child has not listened how to read and write at 6 years old, then he will leave the educational system at 16 without knowing how to read and write. I cannot tell who are the "dumb-butts" here, the children victims of this system, the qualified pedagogues who have suggested it, or the honorable politicians who followed this suggestion ?
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@topffer (42155)
• France
30 Sep 16
@Ceerios Your comments also made me smile. I cannot tell that I have ever had a math phobia, but I was not seeing any practical use for them and I thought that one could easily survive with no more maths than the 4 arithmetic operations
. Then I needed basic trig for my job and I learned a bit more later when I had an interest for astronomy and sundials. But I still think that I can live most of the time without maths
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. Then I needed basic trig for my job and I learned a bit more later when I had an interest for astronomy and sundials. But I still think that I can live most of the time without maths.1 person likes this
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
30 Sep 16
@topffer - "Repeat" where you live is commonly labeled "No child left behind" here in the USA. It is a bad deal for everyone, no matter what it is called. Another not-so-wonderful practice where the practice exists is the skipping ahead to the school grade following the next grade in line - like pushing a child into grade-6 instead of moving them into grade-5 where they really belong. I am a victim of that practice which, as a consequence, caused me to miss out on lots of fundamental instructions in ordinary mathematics. Thus I am still a math dummy. Bless the Internet, however, for it is helping me learn the stuff even now.
Enjoy yourself, @topffer. I enjoy your comments and the rest. -Gus-
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
30 Sep 16
@topffer - Dear Friend topffer - From reading your above comment, I have learned that we must share some genes. We are definitely like-experienced and like-minded in so many ways. By the time I reached my final semester in college, I believed that I had left all of that incomprehensible math behind me - but, no. I had to undergo a math course that was more like gibberish than mathematics. (They called it "New Math.) Bad enough, that, but I was faced with the absolute requirement that I pass all of my final semester classes, for I had been sent to finish the schooling by the military, of which I was one. In other words, I must pass all courses or be punished. So, for the duration of that semester, math was the one thing I really had to study. From a failing grade at mid-semester, I raised the grade to an :A" at the finish. I do not remember actually learning anything as to the "New Math," but I passed that foolish course with a good grade.
It is a funny thing, when I studied such things as plane surveying, in which I had to use a ton of trigonometry, I had fine grades and enjoyed the daylights out of the many lessons and practicals, I easily failed in my ordinary trig class the second time I underwent it after doing poorly in the same course the first time through. I believe I have a math phobia. No doubt about it.
Your comment here made me remember things and caused there to be lots of smiling.
Regards, -Gus-
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
30 Sep 16
@Inlemay - You are absolutely right-on. One might wonder how little "Micheal" is going to fare in school after Michael's mama signs him up during registration. It is good to know that our friends at Free-Ed.net are still helping to supplement what may be lacking in many public and private school settings all over the world. -Gus-
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@Inlemay (17712)
• South Africa
30 Sep 16
@Ceerios In SA there is not restriction for anyone to get an education - They encourage people to keep leaning, short courses correspondence, and other means, but it had to come from the person themself to want to get ahead in life. Hopefully some great teacher will inspire the dumb-butt children to get smart.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
30 Sep 16
@Inlemay - Very good for South Africa. And it is like that in lots of places around the world. this Free-Ed.net website is really helpful to many who want to boost their knowledge without cost and with their having little time on their hands to soak up some learning that has been professionally prepared for "at-home" studying. -Gus-
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
7 Oct 16
Thank you, I will. I hope I don't fall into the category of teachers that you mentioned
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
7 Oct 16
@responsiveme - Friend ARM - I doubt that you would fit into the category of dummies or of ignorant teachers. Take a look at the Free-ED.net website. You might be able to help someone by referral and that website is a winner. -Gus-
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
7 Oct 16
Thank you...this does have a topic I want to learn ...data mining.This is a sign I should go for it instead of procrastinating
