Category: Schroeder’s Corner
The Sorry State of Schooling
New article from the increasingly valuable The Free Press excerpts a book that makes the very strong case that the digitization of the classroom is harming student performance – immensely. The data presented in the excerpt is strong and this make intuitive sense to me. People learn tactilely and computers rob them of that experience. Sure it’s cheaper, less messy and less yucky to run a dissection simulation on a computer, but that same student, when confronted with an actual frog carcass might not have a clue how to proceed, despite having gotten a “A” with the simulation. – the simulation is just not that good. But I think the problems with computers in the classroom run much deeper.
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Science v Freedom
Some years ago I told a friend that was very high on EVs that he could have my (multiple) V-8’s when he “could pry them from my cold, dead hands.” Growing up in Indianapolis, IN – the center of the motorsports universe – my affection for the internal combustion engine runs deep. It is about more than speed it is about wrenches. Today’s IC engines with their heavy computerization are bad enough, but at least you can still customize, power-add, tweak and fiddle. With an EV, no such luck – they are a black box. So it is with great joy that I note the news that the Trump administration has rescinded the ridiculous CAFE standards the Biden administration attempted to put into place and the Senate has voted to block California’s attempt to outlaw IC engine powered auto sales.
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Bureaucracy Breeds Incompetence
Two major stories are floating around right now that are extremely important, but not getting huge traction. One is just how the National Guard shooter got in the country and what motivated him. Lots of investigation and investigation angles. The other is the breathtaking scandal erupting in Minnesota wherein Somali nationals have immigrated and are bilking teh taxpayers out of enormous sums of money. (None of the link just provided give a complete picture of these situations, just enough to make the point and to serve as a jumping off point for your own look into the problem.) There is a tendency to want to assign malfeasance to these situations – and there certainly was in the actors proper, but it would require a very large scale conspiracy (in other words an impossible one) for the government actions, or inactions, in these circumstances to be anything other than incompetence – sheer bureaucratic and leadership incompetence.
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The Gaslighting That Is Going On
So, the GOP held the 7th district Tennessee special election, preserving its narrow margin in the House. The reporting is fascinating. Fox, “With some votes still being counted, Van Epps was headed towards a nine-point victory.” Mediaite, “Van Epps, a former Army helicopter pilot, secured Tennessee’s 7th District with barely 54% of the vote, defeating Behn in a district Trump carried by 22 points just last year. ” One report – a decent victory, the other it was a very near thing. Which was it?
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Imagine That!
It’s funny how things work out. What we think will never happen does and what we think should happen never materializes. That’s one of the reasons the social engineering our government too often attempts these days is almost universally a bad idea. We think we know how things will work out, but we are almost always wrong. It’s like Dirty Harry said.
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Priorities
We’re all old now, but some of us grew up in the golden age of manned space travel. Mercury-Gemini-Apollo-Skylab-Space Shuttle are words intimately familiar to us. It was ever so exciting and adventurous. As a science geek, I was glued to the TV for every launch and recovery. In second grade we had what passed in those days for a “portable” (bloack-and-white) TV and we dragged it to school where we spent the day watching John Glenn’s first orbital journey. But then I got older and was told, much to my disappointment, that the world had higher priorities than space exploration. My dreams of moon colonies and Mars mission were dashed. Priorities…
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God, The Intellect and Advent
Quite a fascinating article, by Peter Savodnik appeared in The Free Press yesterday about how many influential public intellectuals are “suddenly” finding faith. It deserves comment on this First Sunday of Advent.
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How Christians Are Killing Christianity
A Washington Times op-ed points out how faith is necessary for our nation to work well. Agreed. But sometimes those of us of faith are our own worst enemies.
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The Best Argument For the Electoral College, Ever
The race for the next Governor of California is, given Katie Porter’s face-plant, turning into a three-ring circus. With the jungle primary system, the host thinks the leading Republican, Steve Hilton, has a shot. The Democrat Party is currently as fractious as the Southern California earthquake fault system, but I do not share his optimism. My reasons are for another post, another time. Meanwhile, the Dem zoo is all working to see who can get to the left farthest, fastest and that has lead to one candidate offering a position that is simply remarkable.
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It’s Not About Something To Be Thankful For
I have been trying since the weekend past t0 make a single point – that we should be thankful. Not wait around for something to be thankful for, but for what we have now, in this moment, even if it is not exactly what we want or somehow less than ideal. Thankfulness as an attitude makes every thing better.
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