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Tuesday, June 18. 2013

Is "not too smart" a new learning disability?

Annals of education: the end of “smart”. 


As she says, it's not from The Onion. The guy in the video is smart but pitifully emasculated. I guess it goes with the territory. Every assertion he makes ends with a question mark. Lame, and not a word about education.

Posted by The News Junkie in Education, Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:28 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Well, it's the full circle. Dr. Joy Bliss showed us that these days being a conscientious student will get you diagnosed with a psychological disorder.
#1 JKB on 2013-06-18 15:21 (Reply)
Annals of education: the end of “smart”.

It's called Revenge of the Education Majors. Education majors know that people in other majors consider them dummies. SAT scores back this up. Education professors know that quite a few professors in other disciplines consider Education to be mumbo jumbo spouted by blithering idiots.

No one gets classified as "smart," and then Education majors and professors can get rid of their [well-deserved] feelings of inferiority.
#2 Gringo on 2013-06-18 22:16 (Reply)
I can't decide whether the "guy" in the video is a eunuch or a woman trapped in a man's body, but then again, what difference does it make? "He" has been beaten so far down by feminist vagina ideology he can't even stick up for the black brothers "he" surveyed. Pathetic. Get yourself a dog collar, pal.
#3 Agent Cooper on 2013-06-19 03:42 (Reply)
Doesn't the DSM have "not too smart" listed as intelligence deficit disorder?
#4 Ray on 2013-06-19 12:49 (Reply)

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