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Re: lower taxes and cut education and military 50 percent
« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2016, 07:08:10 PM »
No not just the times tables, there just need to be more times tables.  Easy and simple to learn, just takes some rote work.  But no need for a "new" method to learn math and sell new textbooks every 5 years.

99 percent just need enough math to sit around a poker table or get through a mortgage app and not get taken.  Division, percentages, quick addition and subtraction.  Trigonometry is worthless to 99 percent.  We gotta quit trying to educate everyone for college.  It's neither necessary nor optimal.

100% agree, getting some young kids involved in a trade school and teaching them how to balance a bank account and save would be more beneficial.

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Re: lower taxes and cut education and military 50 percent
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2016, 07:11:23 PM »
Which of these ideas have you personally experienced? Did the degree you got from the school of YouTube do more for you than your degree from Stanford?

YouTube wasn't around when I got any of my degrees.  They are just pieces of paper.  The learning is what matters.  If they had a system where you could test out by taking the test or writing an essay and still get the degree because you'd learned it yourself, many many thousands would do it that way.  They won't let that happen because it's just a money racket.

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Re: lower taxes and cut education and military 50 percent
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2016, 08:26:58 PM »
The benefit of university education versus studying by yourself is that it makes available the necessary time.  Someone who set aside four years/six years/ten years of their life for full time study would be better informed than someone who paid for the same number of years in a classroom, assuming this someone isn't one of the dumb shits who needs a school to carry him through by gearing everything down so his slow ass can keep up. 

Modern tertiary education has nothing in common with institutions which operated in a time when knowledge was unavailable to anyone who could be bothered looking for it.  The attempt by the modern university to present itself as a unique suppository of knowledge is as transparent as the merit badge it bestows on anyone willing to pay the fees and meet an academic standard which even the developmentally impaired could achieve, and apparently do.  You don't need to look too hard to see that they walk among us, pulling their expensive acronyms, which they are forever pointing to, along behind them in a little red wagon.  Essentially, modern university is for people too stupid to learn on their own.  I present: its graduates.

Nevertheless, employers, themselves half-witted alumni of some useless center of overpriced textbooks and uninspired lecturers, take a kindly view of people burdened by obscene debt.  An applicant so poor he'll suck your cock for a quarter.  That's the one to hire.  This is why it is nearly impossible to find employment without a college education.  I, therefore, hope you will look kindly upon my application to attend your little schoolhouse.  I'm not sure which you're in there but it really doesn't matter.  I see little difference between one and the next, so I'm just sending this same letter to everyone.

PS - I have the money.
PPS - I don't want to be fucked with.  I'll quietly attend and quietly graduate and quietly pay all the fees.  Just let that happen and stay out of my way.  Do not fuck with me.




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Re: lower taxes and cut education and military 50 percent
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2016, 08:51:22 PM »
the heavy hitters of gb agreeing with the nigerean falkan
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Re: lower taxes and cut education and military 50 percent
« Reply #29 on: February 26, 2016, 09:33:31 PM »
Yes, let's cut the military budget from 18-20% to 10. Brilliant ::)

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Re: lower taxes and cut education and military 50 percent
« Reply #30 on: February 27, 2016, 04:51:33 AM »
Yes, let's cut the military budget from 18-20% to 10. Brilliant ::)
you have to make obvious cuts but there will always be obscure gov programs popping up left n right messing up the budget
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Re: lower taxes and cut education and military 50 percent
« Reply #31 on: February 27, 2016, 06:41:46 AM »
The benefit of university education versus studying by yourself is that it makes available the necessary time.  Someone who set aside four years/six years/ten years of their life for full time study would be better informed than someone who paid for the same number of years in a classroom, assuming this someone isn't one of the dumb shits who needs a school to carry him through by gearing everything down so his slow ass can keep up. 

Modern tertiary education has nothing in common with institutions which operated in a time when knowledge was unavailable to anyone who could be bothered looking for it.  The attempt by the modern university to present itself as a unique suppository of knowledge is as transparent as the merit badge it bestows on anyone willing to pay the fees and meet an academic standard which even the developmentally impaired could achieve, and apparently do.  You don't need to look too hard to see that they walk among us, pulling their expensive acronyms, which they are forever pointing to, along behind them in a little red wagon.  Essentially, modern university is for people too stupid to learn on their own.  I present: its graduates.

Nevertheless, employers, themselves half-witted alumni of some useless center of overpriced textbooks and uninspired lecturers, take a kindly view of people burdened by obscene debt.  An applicant so poor he'll suck your cock for a quarter.  That's the one to hire.  This is why it is nearly impossible to find employment without a college education.  I, therefore, hope you will look kindly upon my application to attend your little schoolhouse.  I'm not sure which you're in there but it really doesn't matter.  I see little difference between one and the next, so I'm just sending this same letter to everyone.

PS - I have the money.
PPS - I don't want to be fucked with.  I'll quietly attend and quietly graduate and quietly pay all the fees.  Just let that happen and stay out of my way.  Do not fuck with me.

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