Kindergartners toss pizzas, learn about food pyramid This “article” is ridiculous. Teaching kids about the food pyramid with pizza!? As one reader noted, a slice of Domino’s pizza has at least 250 calories, and processed tomato sauce is hardly a serving of vegetables. This just shows what’s wrong with our society today… We’re teaching kids…
Category: Education
Lou Dobbs: “Multi-culturalism does not work in any country in the world”
Why Complete Idiot’s Guides are Simply Better
My chemistry textbook: “A catalyst is a substance that increases the rate of reaction without being consumed in the overall reaction.” The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Chemistry: “Catalysts can be compared to my friend Erika (not that you know her). When I was in college, Erika was roommates with a woman named Ingrid. Erika helped…
Distaste for Your Professor? Better Keep it to Yourself
Let’s say you don’t like one of your professors this semester. Shouldn’t you be able to give him or her a review online? Apparently Syracuse University doesn’t think so. The Daily Orange‘s big story yesterday was about four SU freshmen, who, after apparently feeling their writing instructor didn’t “know what she’s doing ever,” started a…
The P-Word
Primitive shouldn’t be a naughty word Today in my International Human Rights class, my friend used the word “primitive” …And then all hell broke lose. Why the oversensitivity? The anthological definition of the word “primitive” is simply “Of or relating to a nonindustrial, often tribal culture, especially one that is characterized by a low level…
Thousands of Pages for Three Sentences
Sounds exciting… Is it just me or has the whole text book “requirement”/actual requirement ratio gotten ridiculous lately? Not sure of what I mean? I’m talking about when a professor lists five 300-page books as a requirement, but doesn’t use more than a few sentences of each for tests, and has you read a separate…