If you could add one required course for all students what would it be?

[Faeelin]

I think a few classes on debate and religion would do everyone a world of good.

[Jon Miller]

I think thinking quantitatively which is why I said physics

Jon Miller

[TCO]

Kitty, that sounds like an interesting course for you to take. But it makes no sense to add it for everybody.

[KrazyHorse]

No, I'm advocating a course that would ensure that only those with some degree of intelligence would actually stand any chance of passing. This would dramatically improve the quality of university graduates.

[KrazyHorse]

And you know I'm kidding, right?

[Bereta_Eder]

tax returns, how to do them

[TCO]

I didn't have the impression that the question was asking about university students. He said a required course. Uni is not required.

Regardless, why advoacate such a course as Algebra 6? I mean people don't even have the prereqs for it.

[TCO]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
And you know I'm kidding, right?

or just acting like a typical physicist...

[KrazyHorse]

By the way, did you see the "discussion" paiktis and I had last night, starting at the bottom of this page?

[Juggernaut]

Sexual Interaction 101.

[Bereta_Eder]

By the way, did you see the "discussion" paiktis and I had last night, starting at the bottom of this page?


Yes a very educative exchange of ideas

[Wraith]

BTW, anyone interested can check out this site for some basic critical thinking info.
This stuff is really hard to teach with some kind of inherent bias...

Wraith
"There is a growing tendency to think of Man as a rational being, which is absurd. There is simply no evidence of any intelligence on the earth."
-- Marvin Martian

[MrFun]

Seems like David Floydd and a couple of others have this political bias against any education on minority groups.

Besides, the requirement that I proposed is not exclusively African-American content -- it would be integrated as one of the more important aspects though, since African-Americans have been very important in our country's history.

[Wraith]

--"Seems like David Floydd and a couple of others have this political bias against any education on minority groups."

More specifically, the PCization of it. Which was why I mentioned my cousin. Apparently the Incans and the Aztecs don't count as cultures to the multiculturalists.

My question, however, is why any history class should have a race-based focus of any kind? It should teach history. Don't teach "black history" unless you're talking about pre-colonization Africa or something. It doesn't make sense, you can't seperate out any one racial group from historical influences in recent history.

Wraith
Those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it - inaccurately

[MrFun]

But that separation has occured for over a century before the 1960's, by teaching everything in the eyes of white, European-descent men.

Bleh -- how boring, inaccurate, and skewed.