No. That’s the fault of progressive teaching methods.
Ditching meat for a vegan diet risks 'dumbing down' the next generation,
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Grow your own vegetables…and fruit if you have room… tend your garden it’s exercise and relaxing…red meat only sparingly…fish…and some chicken…be liberal with extra virgin olive oil…nuts and fruit to munch on for a snack…red wine with your main meal…sit around the table with your family…friends…have an enjoyable time…relax…laugh with friends and a glass of red…don’t stress…big killer…enjoy life and give thanks to God…don’t diet…they never work…it’s a lifestyle change that works…
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No. It’s part of the reactionary elite’s scheme to divert the population’s attention towards third-rate celebrities and soft porn.
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Perhaps a bit of both" problematical methodologies and bread-and-circuses.
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I’ve seen the Sun and concur with the latter. I have no knowledge of primary school teaching methods in the UK and, thus, cannot speak on the latter.
Well, I hadn’t read that about John Dewey and William Heard Kilpatrick, but okay.JonNC:
No. It’s part of the reactionary elite’s scheme to divert the population’s attention towards third-rate celebrities and soft porn.
PS: the Dewey Decimal System was published by Melvil Dewey, not John Dewey
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His decimal system was a triumph of cataloguing.
Anyway, wrong again, it was the ‘dirty digger’ himself, Rupert Murdoch. The Sun is a UK newspaper, we’re not talking about American politics - I haven’t the slightest interest in the US or what you Americans do to one another.
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I don’t know how a publisher sets the reading ability level of the citizenry.JonNC:
His decimal system was a triumph of cataloguing.
Anyway, wrong again, it was the ‘dirty digger’ himself, Rupert Murdoch. The Sun is a UK newspaper, we’re not talking about American politics - I haven’t the slightest interest in the US or what you Americans do to one another.
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My comment was entirely facetious - it seemed appropriate given the irrelevance of your comment.
Murdoch has is no responsible for British literacy than being vegan.JonNC:
Perhaps you should try harder?
We could keep on like this but it’s rather pointless.
Equally as irrelevant as your comments about Murdoch.
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How fortunate we are to have arrived, so quickly, at a point where we both regard everything the other says as worthless! This will save us from discourse ever again.
I never said that. I usually find your comments insightful. In fact, I think you and I agree regarding vegan diets and next generation intelligence.JonNC:
How fortunate we are to have arrived, so quickly, at a point where we both regard everything the other says as worthless! This will save us from discourse ever again.
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Yeah though what about the idea that if everyone went vegetarian/vegan, then we’d have more land to feed the world with since we would reduce the plots needed to feed livestock?
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What about that encyclical; aren’t those serious business?
It is also true that if more countries would adopt political and economic systems similar to what we have, their farming capabilities and capacities would grow, as well.
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If the Pope is urging veganism, show me a source?
It still would not rise to the level of sin, so I wouldn’t do it, but it would be something to think about.
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It still would not rise to the level of sin, so I wouldn’t do it, but it would be something to think about.
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I guess it depends in what field you are talking about. If you look at the British education system, for example, then yes, I’d say that successive generations have dumbed down significantly in the field of classical scholarship. I’ve heard it said, probably not without justification, than a schoolboy leaving an English public school in the latter half of the 19th century probably knew as much Greek and Latin as a student leaving a British university with a degree in classics does today. Public schoolboys used to be given assignments like, ‘Translate “The Charge of the Light Brigade” into Latin in the style of Virgil’, or, ‘Write an account of the Battle of Waterloo in Greek in the style of Thucydides’. The best public schools also taught Hebrew and even Arabic.
The teaching of science, on the other hand, is in fact much stronger now than it would have been even half a century ago. Admittedly, people will argue, for example, that the standard of A-level physics today is poorer than the standard of A-level physics 30 or 40 years ago. This, however, focuses narrowly on the level of attainment among the very best students. I would wager that probably more young people know more about physics today than they did 30 or 40 years ago or certainly 50 or 60 years ago when many students would simply not have studied physics at all.
One could also look at subjects such as history and English literature. Some people will argue that standards have dumbed down because students today are required to memorise fewer facts and fewer texts. I would argue that standards have in fact risen because students are instead expected to learn skills and to develop independent and original ideas. When I talk to people aged around 70 and above most of what they remember from history and English literature at school was being made to memorise things.
I can’t speak for all parts of the world, but in the UK the school leaving age has steadily risen from the late 19th century down to the early 21st century. Adult literacy rates have risen steadily throughout the developed world. I can’t speak for countries other than the UK, but until well into the second half of the 20th century it was quite normal for non-graduates, and even people with no qualifications at all, to become teachers. Now virtually every teacher in the UK has both a degree and a teaching qualification.
As I say, people can easily point to areas in which standards today appear to be poorer than standards two or three generations ago, but I think that this is often a selective sampling of the evidence. I would say that standards have in fact risen overall.
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Why do you worry about climate change so little? Climate change is almost certainly the biggest threat to virtually all aspects of future life on the planet, for humans, non-human animals, plants, and the very physical structure of our planet, e.g. melting ice. Apart from the immediate threat of, say, a war between Russia and NATO or a nuclear conflict in the Middle East, I really cannot think of a threat more important than man-made global warming.
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This is a new one. I always thought when the alarmists said “climate change can destroy the planet”, they were speaking figuratively, not literally.
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