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Mom has gone back to school. Yeah shes in college to be a journalist. Lois Lane look out. Her classes right now are basic catchup classes to introduce you to college life and learning online. Great.... no really it is. I'll explain why.
In high school mom took french, for four years, and learned all kinds of confusing things in the last year or so. She learned all about future present ,past future, past past., present present and standard future and things like that. For those that don't understand. This is regarding grammar. Its just like learning standard present tense grammar but you have to do it all over again for each different tense you are speaking of/in. Now one would think oh since this is fourth year french... do french students learn all this in the fourth grade? Probably not.
Cause mom gets to college and all of a sudden she is learning the Englsh equivalent all the grammar stuff she learned in her fourth year french class. All that stuff was difficult enough for a high school student. Now as a college student it's just beginning to be understandable. Why dont they teach this in high school or even grammar school. Instead of saying... here learn this and don't ask why. Why dont these teachers understand that if you explain why it would be a helluva lot easier to learn that if you just said learn it and deal with it.
I remember grade school english as, only certain words are spelled a i and some words are spelled i a no need to ask why thats just the way it is. And so on... it went on like this all through grade school and high school. Not till college do we learn the why. How is it truly learning if we don't get a why.
Isnt it just force feeding. Are we really just drones to be turned out to the world. How the hell can we have a democracy when only the elite are expected to graduate college and actually think for themselves.
This stems back to a problem mom is having at work. Retail... entry level. They dont expect her to think... they just expect her to do. Remarkable. How can this idealist society.... this all powerful all assuming perfect country expect the vast majority to be drones like that.
And this entire though process stems from my sisters and i living with our adopted mothers the Amazons. *grin* Arent they great.
~B