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Started by Admiral Yi, November 14, 2013, 04:07:30 PM

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garbon

Quote from: viper37 on November 14, 2013, 08:07:41 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 14, 2013, 07:35:53 PM
Why would your American child need to know a foreign language? :huh:
why does one need history or philosophy at all?

I was talking in Ide's scenario where he will punish his child doing well in history. Seems the utility of a foreign language would also be low in such a setup. Better those efforts were channeled elsewhere given the marginal benefit.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ideologue

I didn't say I would punish him--or, hopefully, her, insofar as I'd do my best to never have a male child.  If she were interested in history/literature at the expense of her economically viable studies, I'd be a bad parent if I didn't try to reach her and try to understand what her troubles were. :(

Re: foreign language, foreign language skills are always a plus factor.  She'd be learning Mandarin, Portuguese, Hindi, and/or Arabic.
Kinemalogue
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CountDeMoney

Quote from: mongers on November 14, 2013, 08:00:51 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 14, 2013, 07:46:10 PM
But in the end, I won and showed them all--demanding parents and all those fascist teachers--by doing exactly jack shit and not amounting to anything in life.  :smarty:


My friend, this is bullshit of a high order; a life can be redeemed by just one right act, though you might not realise it at the time; some of the people who peddle the 'amounting to something in life' are cowards, who lack the imagination to do anything out of the norm, the norm set by similar dullards who went before them.

Luckily, the great thing about being over 40 is that all the how-come-you're-not-a-real-professional-like-a-doctor-or-lawyer-you're-not-even-a-father stuff pretty much stops in your mid-30s.   It's smooth sailing from here on out.

Ideologue

Mongers is a good egg.  He tried to mail me a movie once.  It got eaten by customs or something, but he's made something of his life, in my book. :hug:
Kinemalogue
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Sheilbh

Yes for GCSEs and AS-levels. Gave me some money when I did my A-levels too, towards travelling  :)
Let's bomb Russia!

Ideologue

Btw, garbon, serious question--where would the effort be better channeled?  More math?
Kinemalogue
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garbon

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Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2013, 09:25:51 PM
Btw, garbon, serious question--where would the effort be better channeled?  More math?

Accepting your rules, and typical school subjects, sure. That or more science. I don't think those language skills would show themselves to be more useful unless you want your child to move to one of those places.

Now, of course that isn't a position I actually hold in our real world. But then I also wouldn't reject excellence in history or literature, particularly not when they are mandated parts of school curricula.

edit:Actually perhaps more business classes. My school was pretty shitty but we had a lot of classes on computer applications.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ideologue

I want her to be able to do engineering and business deals with foreigners.
Kinemalogue
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garbon

Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2013, 09:33:51 PM
I want her to be able to do engineering and business deals with foreigners.

Why should she do that if she can just get others to handle it for her? Besides, at least for the Hindi piece, wouldn't she be better off conducting the deal in English?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ideologue

She's not being born into the Malthus Family, at best she'll be the one someone else will get to that for them.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Ideologue

Also I'm very surprised no one seized on my sex-selective abortion allusion.  You're a jaded lot.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2013, 09:39:59 PM
Also I'm very surprised no one seized on my sex-selective abortion allusion.  You're a jaded lot.

We need your educated and professionally-driven daughter to cancel out derfetus' traditional-gender-roles, stay-at-home daughter at the polls.

MadImmortalMan

I'd give students a year of credits just if they went and lived in Japan or China or someplace for a year. Even if they did no classes during that time.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

garbon

Quote from: Ideologue on November 14, 2013, 09:39:24 PM
She's not being born into the Malthus Family, at best she'll be the one someone else will get to that for them.

I'd hope unlike you that she'd reach for the stars. :)
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

Quote from: MadImmortalMan on November 14, 2013, 09:42:17 PM
I'd give students a year of credits just if they went and lived in Japan or China or someplace for a year. Even if they did no classes during that time.

That seems...odd.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.