US Politics Mega-thread - Page 2450

On October 29 2015 10:03 TheTenthDoc wrote:
Why does this current questioner talk soooooooo weird? It's getting under my skin.

On October 29 2015 08:55 notesfromunderground wrote:


Because they are not taught how to read books and think critically. I am a hard-core conservative when it comes to educational philosophy. There's only one way to get educated, and it involves starting with Plato, working forward, and then realizing that Plato was the wrong starting point.

On October 29 2015 10:05 GreenHorizons wrote:
Jeb's answer literally made no sense.

On October 29 2015 10:06 TheTenthDoc wrote:


It made more sense than Christie's gibberish about pharmaceutical companies somehow being held criminally liable for "price gouging."

But still not much sense.

On October 29 2015 10:10 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
You have to admit Marco Rubio has some political skill on the stage.

On October 29 2015 10:06 ticklishmusic wrote:



Just gonna hop back onto this discussion by quoting from a random point:

STEM has a bad rap for being heavily about memorization and frameworks. While maybe at a few places that is true, I think it is a mischaracterization about the vast majority of programs. The problem is that you have to walk before you can run let alone fly, and the waking part requires quite a large body of knowledge before you can get started on anything meaningful. For example, while I can understand clinical oncology pretty well, it took years to get to the point-- I had to take intro bio, genetics, biochem, microbio (and the various pre-reqs for some of those classes) before I could get to my cancer bio class.

Think of the beauty and logic in quantitative fields like physics, engineering and computer science-- think of how creative and how elegant solutions are to math problems that stand unsolved for hundreds of years, or the ingenuity it took to get a rocket into space. I can read about sort of how these things work and appreciate the human intellect for these things, but I can barely comprehend the mechanics and details of how all these things get done.

Did your wonderful, eye-opening humanities education let you see how amazing and creative STEM can be? Or is ignorance (or something else) the cause of your blindness?

PS. I probably read more books every year than you (if we want to measure dicks that way).

On October 29 2015 09:48 xDaunt wrote:

Would you vote for Trump because you think he'd change things for the better or because you think he'd be such a colossal disaster that he'd collapse the system? (I'm guessing the latter)