Communist Education?

[JohnT]

No, it's because he hasn't learned any new words that lead to him repeating 'inane'. Repetitively.

[Patroklos]

I suppose you would have to do that for her when she is in a class she is not doing well in, then she might like it.

Though the girl in Wargames refused to have her grade raised. Idealist

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by Patroklos
I suppose you would have to do that for her when she is in a class she is not doing well in, then she might like it.

thats the problem, she is quite clever

[Patroklos]

Well, I'd take an intelligent girl that can hold a conversation over the one who wants maxism applied to her grading system.

But that is just me

[JohnT]

Patroklos, sounds like you and Saint Marcus Have Something in Common.

[The Templar]

Originally posted by Patroklos
It is a joke retards, and obviouslly so.

Translation = I guess it was an inane troll after all

Not too many people with a sence of hunor around here. But for your benefit I'll add an edit it for you.

I've got one, but the "joke" has to be funny.

[The Templar]

Originally posted by The Andy-Man
funnily enough, i used the same argument at uni on a socialist (a pretty one mind ) to prove that grading income tax is wrong. I said, if anyone who scores over 50% has 90% of their sore taken off of them and redistributed, would it at all be fair on her.


She didn't like it.... :worried:

Redistributing wealth is the allocation of a resource. Grading is supposed to be the measure of a resource. Therein lies the difference. What next? Is someone going to say that in a communist measurment system a meter should be the same length as a kilometer so that distances are not oppressed? Give me a break.

[JohnT]

"Grading is supposed to be the measure of a resource. "

Therefore, in a Communist society, your grades should help determine how the government uses you up?

[GePap]

Originally posted by JohnT
"Grading is supposed to be the measure of a resource. "

Therefore, in a Communist society, your grades should help determine how the government uses you up?

what government? After the proleteriat revolution, according to Marx (if not Lenin) there is no organized government.

[The Templar]

Originally posted by JohnT
"Grading is supposed to be the measure of a resource. "

Therefore, in a Communist society, your grades should help determine how the government uses you up?

Pretty much. Same way grades effect how private employers here decide to use you up.

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by The Templar


Redistributing wealth is the allocation of a resource. Grading is supposed to be the measure of a resource. Therein lies the difference. What next? Is someone going to say that in a communist measurment system a meter should be the same length as a kilometer so that distances are not oppressed? Give me a break.

the point i had been trying to make to her was that she worked hard to get88
% score, like people prolly work hard to earn 200,000 a year. And weather it was fair to steal that persons hard work and give it t oa bum who didn't revise and got 2%

[Ben Kenobi]

Don't commies know not to feed the troll?

If no one posts to the thread, it just dies.

[Shi Huangdi]

The commies really do need to lighten up, if a little joke like that gets their panties in such a bundle.

[The Templar]

Originally posted by The Andy-Man



the point i had been trying to make to her was that she worked hard to get88
% score, like people prolly work hard to earn 200,000 a year. And weather it was fair to steal that persons hard work and give it t oa bum who didn't revise and got 2%

Egad! Grades do not measure the amount of work you do - they measure your mastery of the subject.

Back when I taught, I would get people who would work as hard as they could and barely earn the B- because they were at their intellectual limits with respect to philosophy. Other people could write brilliant papers in one draft the night before they were due, and got A's.

So if I had equalized the grades, I would not have been "stealing" hard work from all of the high scorers - just as I was not failing to recognize the hard work of low scorers. It's just that grades are not earned via work - they are earned via mastery. Work may lead to mastery, but the grades don't take the pathway to mastery into effect. Unless you give bonuses for hard work - in which case grades are a two dimentional metric of work and mastery. But grades remain a metric. Redistributing grades would not be a redistribution of reward, such redistribution would be a skewing of the measurement - a falsification of data-points.

Is it necessarily fair that some people are more talented than others in an area? Probably not, but that's the way it is.

[GePap]

Originally posted by The Andy-Man
the point i had been trying to make to her was that she worked hard to get88
% score, like people prolly work hard to earn 200,000 a year. And weather it was fair to steal that persons hard work and give it t oa bum who didn't revise and got 2%

Thankfully, you having an 88% means nothing to anyone else-everyone can have an 88% in class, if they work hard enough.

NOT true in the modern economy- you may work 90 hours a week, but if the job you do is one anyone can do, as hard as it may be, then the market will see to it you get paid **** for all your hard labor. Hard labor is not what decides whether you make lots of money- it is whether what you do is profitable to do, and that changes all the time.

A lot of poor people work as hard as the rich- they just don;t work at the same thing.