The Herd Mentality

[opsspec1991]

Which would you rather be, book smart to the point that your comprehension of the normal day to day interactions in and around the world is jaded to the point that your opinions are naïve and unrealistic, or would you rather have really good common sense and can see between the lines of all of this current politically correct talking points that you hear day after day from various people who want to direct your thoughts towards their way of thinking.
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I count myself as a person who can call a spade a spade and be circumspect of a whole lot of what I hear and see being projected by the national media, this old adage is quite correct, “If you say it long and often enough as fact, then sooner or later it will be considered fact, even if it isn’t”.
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The group mentality of the herd is seen every day and it’s sad that only a chosen few that can see through the bull **** and voice their opinions get the lowest dissemination to the American public.

 

[fuhr52]

We no longer teach and encourage our young to be the best they can be. We lower the standards so the learning impaired students have an equal shot at a career with the super smart kids. Wouldn't want smart kids to have an unfair advantage. Telling a lie often enough that people start to believe it as fact has been a left wing tactic for some time. Leave out all facts that could deviate from the agenda. Man made climate change and anti 2A are just two of the current left wing agendas using this tactic.

 

[aacx22]

When did "book" become a dirty word? I bet you your favorite firearm wasn't designed with street savvy. Neither was the Constitution for that matter. You can argue about the libs taking over schools and have a good conversation, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. Education is not the problem.

 

[Oldgrunt]

When did "book" become a dirty word? I bet you your favorite firearm wasn't designed with street savvy. Neither was the Constitution for that matter. You can argue about the libs taking over schools and have a good conversation, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. Education is not the problem.

Education, in itself, is a wonderful thing to have and one should garner as much as possible while being young. It will take you much further in life and on a much easier road. The educational system of today has been "dumbed down" in order to have an even playing field for all students but, in actuality, it has deprived them of little more than the basics. Students are graduating high school now who are barely able to read and write, have little, if any, knowledge of our history and no knowledge of our government. The problem is NOT education, it IS the administrators of school systems who have been the problem and not insuring that students are being taught properly. I realized just how bad things had gotten when one of my great-grandchildren told me that they were taught that the atomic bomb was constructed and used for the first time in the Korean War. Even the teacher didn't know the truth so that indicates learning has been going down for quite some time. There are many incidents of baloney being taught to kids today and, at the rate we are going, the word "Duh" will be a formal greeting for all. Our educational system has become too liberalized and political to be truly effective.

 

[Firefighterchen]

The opportunity for the younger to excel in education is there. After and before school programs, schools for the gifted, etc. What makes the biggest difference in the success of a childs education, is the parents support in their education. To many parents drop off their kids and say goodbye to not think about them for the next 6 hours, then they don't care about their homework, grades, activities, nutrition, sleep, etc. The best school systems are the ones with the most parent involvement. Far too many parents are "surprised" when they send home an anti constitutional history lesson...that lesson should have been squashed before the handout was passed around.

I do agree, our teachers are paid like trash and hard to get rid of, and the curriculum has been lowered. It's all backwards...but it's not gone if only parents would look for it.

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[Bluestar99]

My older brother and I had the exact same parents, and went to the same schools. My older brother would be considered "book smart, life stupid". I was always asked, "why can't you be more like your brother" ? He's always on the Honor roll. Well as it tuned out, I was just an average student. But I got the common sense he does not have. I can build or fix anything and I problem solve very well. Big brother went off to corporate life and I went on to own my own business. We both did well but we are very different people, who had the same support and opportunities from our parents. So it goes back to the old saying, "Is it nature or nurture" . I still worry about big brother going out in the rain. I'm afraid that if he looks up he may drown. LOL