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Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
When we get old enough, we finally discover that we were smarter when we were about three . . .— March 12, 2016 3:32 p.m.
Lawyer sues Thomas Jefferson School of Law
I would, but they wouldn't get it.— March 12, 2016 3:27 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Mr. Williams: "Students, being young, think they're scamming the system . . ." Don't most have to be carefully taught?— March 12, 2016 8:43 a.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska once said that the most intelligent statement anyone could make is "I don't know." Her poetry, of course, is excellent. The real world is fuzzy; our perceptions of it are linear. We are bound by the blinders of culture, our presumptions, our suppositions. "First-rate" is something like "world-class." Feeble attempts to reduce complex phenomena to language--a limited concept quite unable to make sense out of senses. Some try, as through "Fuzzy Logic," fractals, and chaos theory, but we never quite make it, do we? You are quite right about IQ tests. The arrogance of the "educated," and an indictment of testing of any kind--especially for "assessing" the "progress" of any individual. Especially heinous is the practice of hanging GPA's (averages are, by definition, mediocre) around the necks of people (especially the young) like the Mark of Cain. Whilst, of course, conferring certifications upon the cooperative.— March 11, 2016 11:55 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Try Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Mine the Harvest" is one of her best collections. Read "Not for a Nation." Her translation of "Les Fleurs du Mal" (with George Dillon) contains an excellent essay on translation.— March 11, 2016 11:35 p.m.
Lawyer sues Thomas Jefferson School of Law
That's one possible supposition (I suppose, but should I suppose or ask you for the evidence behind your supposition--which applies, of course, to all suppositions, including mine?), but not the irony I had in mind. I was thinking more in terms of what a joke the whole "legal" system is. Certainly there must be some "honest" judges, just as there must be some juries who actually THINK. I don't mean well-intentioned. Juries are commonly hoodwinked by lawyers for the defense and the prosecution who care more about self-promotion than "justice." But we're getting off the subject of law schools that perpetuate the fantasy of the law being any sort of level playing field--level mine-field, perhaps.— March 11, 2016 10:58 p.m.
Lawyer sues Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Oh, the IRONY!— March 11, 2016 9:48 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Too bad they don't have the option of ballet. Now THAT'S athleticism!— March 11, 2016 6:44 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Neither of us has any data. In general, I would tend to agree with you, but the principle holds true regardless of the particular context cited. My guess would be that industries and professions suffer similarly. Any kind of guild system tends toward authoritarianism, which tends toward conformity, which tends toward marginalism of throwing out ALL of the nonconforming babies with the bathwater. As a result, only a few exceptional individuals survive. Say, for example, people like Noam Chomsky and Richard Feynman.— March 11, 2016 6:41 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Mediocre minds, if they can recognize them at all, fear first-rate minds. Unfortunately, the authoritarian "education" system has a plethora of the former.— March 10, 2016 9:02 p.m.