How to combat illeteracy. Make that illiteracy. Hell, just call it stupidity
Posted by Moonage on 11 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: National Politics
This is incredibly stupid. If enough people didn’t learn how to add, and therefore thought 1+1 were 3, would we change math as well?
English is complicated because it melds all languages together and leaves room for local dialect. That doesn’t mean people don’t need to learn how to use it correctly. If they want to grow up stupid, it’s their right. That doesn’t mean those who can learn rudimentery English have to dumb down to their level. If we keep lowering the bar, which seems to be the most common answer of late, we’ll all be stupid.
And, that’s not a good thing. We have more than enough stupid people to amuse the rest. I want the bar raised, not lowered. As much trouble as kids are apparently having learning the language they are expected to live with, I advocate learning at least two others before high school. Think that’s a tough bar? Check out Aruba and most ALL of Europe.
The reason our kids appear stupid is NOT because they were born that way. It’s because society has pandered to not "insulting" anyone and therefore keeps lowering the expectations for those not born stupid to behave in a similar fashion as those that truly are. If the normal kids don’t take it upon themselves individually to strive for something better than what they see the stupid kids acheiving, they can be just as stupid as the morons and some elements of society will be perfectly fine with that. Hell, they’ll dumb down the English language just to make them all appear equal.
That’s stupid folks. Very, very, stupid.
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