On Friday 21 May 2021 19:14:42 J Leslie Turriff wrote: > On 2021-05-21 18:04:29 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > > You should go to school, not to learn by rote, that will be stale > > before you get across the stage for a diploma, but to learn how to > > learn for the rest of your life. Never, ever, let your curiosity go > > unanswered. Except maybe about gravity, which hasn't made it into > > the TOE despite 100+ years of trying by some 5 star minds. We don't > > even know its PV! > > > > Take care and stay well folks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > Yeah. Good luck getting today's teachers to teach how to learn > instead of how to memorize. > And that is indeed the crux of the matter. Problem solving is not on the agenda, the dregs of it vanished along with teaching phonics back in the 40's. I got the last class on that ever taught in Iowa schools in the 40's. That, and a tested 147 on the Iowa test, I have always said gave me a leg up on those that followed later. In the early 50's as korea was blowing up, I had the draft board move my number up as that was for 2 years, but volunteers were for 4 years, but I made a 98 on the AFQT. Next best in about 135 boys that day was 36. That got me instantly classified 4F, unfit for service because I wouldn't follow orders, they wanted machine gun targets. I sat for a 1st phone and got it in '62 without cracking a book to cram. Sick of consumer electronics, I switched to broadcast engineering in '64 and never looked back. I sat for the CET in '72, same story. 4 hours to do the test, gave it back in 45 minutes, 123 out of 125 correct. To say that the CET is a rare item is an understatement, dropping that on HR's desk has got me every job I've ever applied for. Married an old maid school teacher with a degree in music in '89 but she was a bit embasrrased at my lack of a formal diploma, and pushed me to get a GED, so I sat for that in '90. 2 weeks later I hadn't heard, so I made a trip to the P.O., the test givers $dayjob, and asked him about it. He asked in turn why I cared, it was obvious you were just doing it for the exercise weren't you? I had to admit he was right, but I got it a few days later. Now that lady has passed as of last Pearl Harbor Day, COPD. So after 31 years I'm alone again. > Leslie Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
