tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post495387422861830602..comments2024-03-29T10:53:28.617+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond does it again with a repetitive by rote Donners ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-18635007962211591902017-01-24T23:07:48.359+11:002017-01-24T23:07:48.359+11:00"...internet nerds, hedge fund trustees, a lo..."...internet nerds, hedge fund trustees, a load of gun nuts and a large number of disgruntled pilots..."<br /><br />Throw in hairdressers and telephone sanitisers, DiddyWrote, and you just about have Douglas Adams' B-Ark.FrankDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-83508140381857046232017-01-24T23:03:00.843+11:002017-01-24T23:03:00.843+11:00Good points, Anony, but I invite you to consider h...Good points, Anony, but I invite you to consider how tenuous Donner's grip on reason must be if he thinks the Iliad is a source of valuable <a href="http://loonpond.blogspot.com/2017/01/in-which-pond-keeps-track-of-broady-boy.html?showComment=1484134764439#c8659516979229407091" rel="nofollow">life lessons</a>.FrankDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-35537306948008741232017-01-24T20:17:00.817+11:002017-01-24T20:17:00.817+11:00Hi GB,
I totally agree, that their overweening se...Hi GB,<br /><br />I totally agree, that their overweening sense of superiority is why they could see themselves as heroic figures in a dystopian future but that would actually make for a great comedy.<br /><br />Can you imagine a bunch of internet nerds, hedge fund trustees, a load of gun nuts and a large number of disgruntled pilots (with or without families) all shoved into a concrete bunker and hope that this will be the future of humanity?<br /><br />I doubt it would last a month.<br /><br />Actually I think there might be a book in that.<br /><br />DW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11113031292852660732017-01-24T19:35:33.345+11:002017-01-24T19:35:33.345+11:00" the preppers ... were having their fears re...<b>" the preppers ... were having their fears reflected and reinforced back to them."</b><br /><br />Not so much their fears, I think DW, as their heartfelt desires. Oh, to be the big, tough survivor in a destroyed world ! If you can keep your life when all about you are losing theirs ... and you can even blame it on them.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-44639955045395665502017-01-24T18:09:02.480+11:002017-01-24T18:09:02.480+11:00Hi Dorothy,
thank you for the link to the New Yor...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />thank you for the link to the New Yorker article - a slightly worrying read.<br /><br />Interesting to see how a lot of the preppers were from Silicon Valley and I wondered if they had fallen into the trap of being in an echo chamber and that they were having their fears reflected and reinforced back to them.<br /><br />A while ago I thought about buying one of those combination torch/radios which you can charge up by either wind-up or solar as I thought it might be useful during the storm season. I did some searches on Amazon (a site I rarely use) to see what was available. A mistake!<br /><br />Whenever I log into the Amazon site now my suggested purchases are for things like; A Mini Survival Tin, Water Purification Tablets, Survival Matches and The Ultimate Preppers Guide.<br /><br />Bloody algorithms.<br /><br />DiddyWrote<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-51093986995336044192017-01-24T17:19:40.226+11:002017-01-24T17:19:40.226+11:00Yes for a thoroughly politically incorrect examina...Yes for a thoroughly politically incorrect examination of "catholic" his-story I thoroughly recommend the book The Criminal History of the Papacy by Tony Bushby.<br />And of course such sordid doings are still very much standard practice as explained in footnoted detail by David Yallop in his book The Dark Heart of JPII's Vatican, and as to be found by doing a search on the topic The Vatican and World Politics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-46286602438856488862017-01-24T16:56:13.644+11:002017-01-24T16:56:13.644+11:00An excellent article, thanks Anony. Unfortunately...An excellent article, thanks Anony. Unfortunately, I do not expect that the rote thinkers such as Donners would ever read Pasi Sahlberg's wise, and experienced, pronouncements - or, if they did, would understand a word of it.<br /><br />The whole unhealthy absorption of so-called educators (eg Donners) with artificial, and eminently gameable, "tests" such as PISA and TIMSS is reminiscent of the corrupted use of the Binet-Simon scale by the likes of Lewis Terman.<br /><br />It is just so easy, and so ridiculous, to concentrate on reducing students and their education achievements to a single number whether that be a TIMSS/PISA score or a (Terman) Stanford-Binet "IQ" score. But if I had to apply an "IQ Test" to Donners, I would suggest that such insensible reductionism is all he can understand (and it can be learned by rote, too).GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-63797091662515183902017-01-24T16:16:28.657+11:002017-01-24T16:16:28.657+11:00Given Donners' dedication to high standards of...Given Donners' dedication to high standards of teaching, shouldn't he be given six of the best when he falls short of his own requirements? While it's set in Scandinavia, "Beowulf" isn't a "Norse legend" but an Old English poem.<br /><br />As for advocating that students learning about Queen Boadicea, that's the story of an uppity woman leading a revolt against lawful authority, burning London and finally, when the whole exercise fails, killing herself. Is Donners actually advocating that students draw inspiration from tales of violent revolution, wanton destruction and self harm? <br /><br />He also fails to indicate whether the older spelling / pronunciation of "BO-dah-CEE-ah" should be replaced by the now commonly used Boudica ("BOO-dee-kaa"); surely, in Donner's world, only one can be correct?<br /><br />100 lines, Mr Donnelly, and stay behind to clean the blackboards!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-89121731781973193572017-01-24T14:38:51.523+11:002017-01-24T14:38:51.523+11:00https://pasisahlberg.com/a-conversation-on-lessons...https://pasisahlberg.com/a-conversation-on-lessons-from-finland/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-82228914004211788482017-01-24T14:15:55.836+11:002017-01-24T14:15:55.836+11:00Dorothy - the dog botherer's MO seems to have ...Dorothy - the dog botherer's MO seems to have taken off.<br /><br />http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0822/c90000-9103605.html<br /><br />This man only assaulted female dogs, however.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com