Posted by alexandra_k on April 10, 2021, at 17:41:10
In reply to Re: Why Did ASTRA ZENECA change name to Vaxzevria?, posted by alexandra_k on April 10, 2021, at 17:32:28
There was this thing about taking novels out of NCEA so they could herd the students through with film or media. They say it's about disguising the lack of reading comprehension.
At University (in Australia as well) there is a push to not teach primary texts.
When I came through as an undergrad I read Plato and Kant (in translation). Development would be learning languages, as well, to be able to read them in their original form. That would be progress.
But things have gone the other way. The studnets aren't asked or required to read Plato and Kant, anymore. The lectures aren't about close analysis of a passage, anymore. Rather, insofar as those things are taught the kids are expected to kludge together the lecturers powerpoint slides in essay form and spit them back with linking words. Maybe type the slides into google and see if they get hits and insert a reference or two...
Else they replace difficult texts with texts that are simpler. Nagal's 'what does it all mean' or textbooks or whatever. Things with a lower reading age.
They say it's about the students not being bright / motivated. But it's a way of depriving studnets of an education is what it is.
Where are the kids supposed to go if they want to grow and develop their reading comprehension of texts that are difficult?
The answer is: Overseas.
It's not clear whether the High Court Judges of NZ have the reading comprehension to understand what 'based in the reports of examiners' means.
Or what 'freedom to work to international standards of scholarship' means.
To comprehend (3 years later) that that means when the external examiners are willing to sign off that a graduate research degree has been finished... That means it's been finished. That means you confer the Degree.
Or it means you get shut down and you pay out your studnets. Your student slaves. The kids you carefully selected for their state of intellectual handicap? That was the plan?
F*ck*ng psychopaths.
They get sick... The vultures gloat.
There is no medicine, here.
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