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Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $.20 per inch?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
“Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.”
…schools should be factories "in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products...manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
Originally posted by Uber Fr0g
annnnnnnnnnnh try again!
I saw this a while back to and was fooled. Go to this link, It's a tired urban legend..
www.snopes.com...
[edit on 25-1-2006 by Uber Fr0g]
Originally posted by skippytjc
Possibly the biggest conspiracy of our time?
Why do I ask this question?
Because we were designed to be stupid. More specifically, Americans have been designed to be stupid.
The USA’s current school system was designed to suppress creativity and free thought. DESIGNED THAT WAY! The very people who put together America’s school system did so with the sole intent to keep the classes separated and to supply the industrial revolution with content, conforming workers. This was actually planned and it’s the same system we use today.
This is not my opinion, this is fact and I will prove it to you.
But before I do, I want to share a portion of an 8th grade final exam from 1895 with you:
Remember John Dewey? (Dewey Decimal System) Here is a quote Mr. Dewey made in 1897 you were never supposed to hear:
“Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth.”
Yeah, he said that. “…maintenance of the proper social order…” that’s a gem huh?
How about this one from the Dean of Education at Stanford Elwood Cubberly in 1905:
…schools should be factories "in which raw products, children, are to be shaped and formed into finished products...manufactured like nails, and the specifications for manufacturing will come from government and industry."
Who are these guys you ask? These are the very guys who created and implemented today’s school system. The one that ALL American’s in the last century was educated with.
The system was designed to produce a proportionate number of “worker bee’s” and limit the amount of highly educated free thinkers.
Am I over thinking this? These quotes don’t prove anything you say? Well read this one from William Torrey Harris, the actual US Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906:
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.
Harris all but states it as fact that 99% of students are “automata” by design! This is the very man responsible for the educational system. Not convinced yet that the US government wanted its masses to be uneducated robots? Would you believe the President himself?
President Woodrow Wilson:
We want one class to have a liberal education. We want another class, a very much larger class of necessity, to forego the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.
I don’t know how else to spell this out for you. The very people who are responsible for creating and implementing the current United States school system designed it to keep the majority uneducated.
Let’s revisit that 1895 test. Think about how hard that exam is today, for anybody, let alone a 13 year old. But the reality is that this was a typical exam PRIOR to the implementation of today’s educational system. Educators back then had one priority: To teach you and make you smarter.
But as a collective, too many smart people didn’t serve the interest of the country as a whole. So a system to churn out the appropriate percentage of “worker bee’s” was implemented.
Find me one college level professor, from any institution, that can score a 100% on that 8th grade exam in the times allotted and without a calculator or PC. You cannot. Because they were designed to be stupid, just like you and me.