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Learning how to learn
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Letter to the editor of The Portland Observer. I was hoping that I could agree with Ron Herndon's comments (Parent's Corner, Making Good Teachers, Principals. The Portland Observer, September 14, 2011) but one thing struck me as I read this statement Remember, you can't become a licensed electrician unless you have been observed successfully wiring a house. I think the error here is that wiring a house and getting a human to read are not the same, not even close. So what is the way out?
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Learning how to learn
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To the students of any school, but especially the Jefferson H.S. students I saw when I visited Jefferson. What is expected of you after high school? The four years you spend in high school are the last years you will have for a free education. After high school is over, education costs thousands of dollars, no more free ride. No excuses about teachers, books, other kids or whatever will be accepted by the world after high school is over. You will be expected to:. Know and understand the political system.
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Ancil Nance's comments on false equivalency, guns, faith based ignorance, creationism v. evolution
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Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions.are again upon you. Abe Lincoln. If Scalia was such a strict constitutionalist, holding to the original intent, how could he ignore the conditioning clause of the Second Amendment, which cites the need for a standing militia as the reason for bearing arms? The system has failed again. Published in The Oregonian 2-16-16. Right now in Portland we fac...
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health care, guns, faith based ignorance, creationsim v. evolution
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1491, Charles C. Mann. 1493, Charles C. Mann. The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby. Big History, the Big Bang, Great Courses. The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins. The Burden of Southern History, C. Vann Woodward. The China Mirage, James Bradley. Doubt, a History, Susan Hecht. The End of America, Naomi Wolf. Faith vs. Fact, Jerry A. Coyne. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins. God and the Folly of Faith, Victor J. Stenger. Goliath, Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, Max Blumenthal.