Sociology > Education > Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition
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"Bareass Hussein Osama" |
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07 Oct 2007 09:54:17 AM |
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Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "R. Steve Walz" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 02:14:37 PM |
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Bareass Hussein Osama wrote:
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
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Competition is LESS supportive of skill development than is group
cooperation. People learn best with others to bounce ideas off of,
and accomplish the most with the diversity of one's differing
fellows! In fact, in that way people can "compete" at cooperating.
Trying to tell us that compettion and cooperation are are diametrically
opposed is purest bollocks!
And as for self-esteem, people develop it by group cooperation and
group consciousness, because it is inherent in self-esteem that we
look to how and whether others value us to know our value.
Your baloney here is well-sliced alright, but it is still baloney!!
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
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It is simply true that the focus on achievement in understanding rhe
MATERIAL is SIDETRACKED by concerns of academic competition! Look to
the stupid "no child left behind" ***** of this administration and
that it has invariably forced teachers to "teach to the test" rather
than teach the material coherently and with cooperative interaction.
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results.
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The problem with SO-CALLED competitive Capitalist society is that it
isn't fair to those who DO do the work and who DO try. And why? Because
the thrust of Capitalism is NOT merit-based advancement, but catch as
catch-can thievery and dishonest corrupt conniving as some supposed
quality for identifying those with greatest "merit", when actually all
we do thereby is hand our society over to CRIMINALS!!
Any Socialist society does a FAR BETTER job of identifying true merit,
if that is what everybody wants to do, but instead, a Socialist society
sees that the ONLY reason some are left behind is the accumulation of
nothing more than random bad luck, and that with social effort, the
society can recompense the deprived with remedial re-training, and NOT
merely with some feel-good give-away!
But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
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Trotting out Dr. Benjamin Spock you as your whipping boy won't
help you.
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
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But that lying, stealing, and back-stabbing IS the essence of
Capitalism! The notion that someone must win everything is inherently
wrong, unfair, and unDemocratic. But that *IS* what Capitalism
ultimately promotes, even though it imagines it will be well-received!
Steve
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
08 Oct 2007 03:58:46 PM |
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On Oct 7, 10:54 am, (Bareass Hussein Osama) wrote:
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem?
Well, for the socialiology morons, we always need
to reinforce their fragile cognitive belief structure,
that it wasn't a good you silly imbelice,
it was a real moon rocket you silly retard, not the
Rolling Stones flip side.
And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "Bareass Hussein Osama" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
08 Oct 2007 04:33:14 PM |
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On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:58:46 -0700, "zzbunker@netscape.net"
<zzbunker@netscape.net> wrote:
On Oct 7, 10:54 am, (Bareass Hussein Osama) wrote:
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem?
Well, for the socialiology morons, we always need
to reinforce their fragile cognitive belief structure,
that it wasn't a good you silly imbelice,
it was a real moon rocket you silly retard, not the
Rolling Stones flip side.
English is apparently not this poster's first language.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
08 Oct 2007 05:12:26 PM |
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On Oct 8, 5:33 pm, (Bareass Hussein Osama) wrote:
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:58:46 -0700, "zzbun...@netscape.net"
<zzbun...@netscape.net> wrote:
On Oct 7, 10:54 am, (Bareass Hussein Osama) wrote:
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem?
Well, for the socialiology morons, we always need
to reinforce their fragile cognitive belief structure,
that it wasn't a good you silly imbelice,
it was a real moon rocket you silly retard, not the
Rolling Stones flip side.
English is apparently not this poster's first language.- Hide quoted text -
Of course not, I learned english the hard way in London,
not the easy way, like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones did,
from AT&T.
- Show quoted text -
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| User: "Citizen Jimserac" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 05:21:38 PM |
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On Oct 7, 10:54 am, (Bareass Hussein Osama) wrote:
Interesting idea and I understand the intent which is to
criticize this mad drive towards egalitarianism which seems to
characterize some elements of the left.
While this criticism may or may not be valid, I will
warn those of you seeing only one side of this issue
that the right is just as guilty as the left in the
organized dumbing down of our educational system
to produce contented, docile and, most importantly,
obedient unthinking citizens. The result, the vast social warehousing
system known as the public education system
and the vast "education" industry which feeds off of it
have been exposed, brilliantly, by a former New York city
schoolteacher of 30 years experience who finally got fed up trying to
teach his students and decided to investigate exactly how our current
educational system got that way.
The result is a book (The Underground Guide to American Education by
John Taylor Gatto) that EVERY CITIZEN should read and the entire book
is available online with nice chapter summaries should you wish to
skip thither and fro while astonishing yourself with numerous ahas as
the sordid details of the "system" (and NO it is not a conspiracy) are
exposed,
at THIS link:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/toc1.htm
It is BOTH right and left involved in this little game and if you are
going to expose one side of it, you might as well see ALL OF IT.
Citizen Jimserac
NO child left behind but our country has been left behind, eh?
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| User: "robw" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 10:13:57 AM |
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When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there is no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "Bareass Hussein Osama" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 11:16:43 AM |
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there is no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "robw" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 12:00:43 PM |
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Busch is a liberal?
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "Bareass Hussein Osama" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 02:24:57 PM |
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive. But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "robw" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 02:40:02 PM |
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You're an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47093294.28941578@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there
is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete
with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive.
But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up
one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in
their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from
low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "Harold Burton" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 09:34:26 PM |
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In article <m96dnVFEbvlyqJTanZ2dnUVZ_sKdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote:
You're an *****.
Another cogent argument by a leftard.
Snicker.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47093294.28941578@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there
is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete
with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive.
But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up
one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in
their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from
low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "Bareass Hussein Osama" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 03:49:53 PM |
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Sounds like you've stopped arguing and have entered juvenile mode.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:40:02 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
You're an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47093294.28941578@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there
is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete
with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive.
But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up
one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in
their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from
low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
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| User: "Harold Burton" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 09:34:49 PM |
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In article <47094670.34024812@news.newsguy.com>,
(Bareass Hussein Osama) wrote:
Sounds like you've stopped arguing and have entered juvenile mode.
long ago.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:40:02 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
You're an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47093294.28941578@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds there
is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" < > wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete
with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something non-competitive.
But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up
one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in
their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from
low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results. But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr. Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
.
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| User: "robw" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 05:46:12 PM |
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No, you're an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:47094670.34024812@news.newsguy.com...
Sounds like you've stopped arguing and have entered juvenile mode.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:40:02 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
You're an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47093294.28941578@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds
there
is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes
them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete
with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because
I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something
non-competitive.
But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without
having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the
idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided
that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up
one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in
their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from
low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools
shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like
a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level
playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results.
But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr.
Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that
the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
.
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| User: "Harold Burton" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 09:35:39 PM |
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In article <z7ednWKagZwM_JTanZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote:
No, you're an *****.
And you're stupid enough to prove his point.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:47094670.34024812@news.newsguy.com...
Sounds like you've stopped arguing and have entered juvenile mode.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:40:02 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
You're an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47093294.28941578@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds
there
is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes
them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete
with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because
I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something
non-competitive.
But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without
having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the
idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided
that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up
one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in
their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from
low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools
shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like
a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level
playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results.
But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr.
Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that
the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 06:14:06 PM |
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:46:12 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
No, you're an *****.
It looks like the liberal ran out of steam.
Typical
___________________
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:47094670.34024812@news.newsguy.com...
Sounds like you've stopped arguing and have entered juvenile mode.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:40:02 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
You're an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47093294.28941578@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds
there
is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes
them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood, complete
with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win because
I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success, from
winning, or at least from doing well at something
non-competitive.
But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without
having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the
idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided
that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke up
one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score in
their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer from
low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools
shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel like
a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level
playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results.
But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr.
Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that
the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
.
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| User: "robw" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 06:21:12 PM |
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Take me on.
Got game?
<Click@Knicklas.com> wrote in message
news:4709683b.42676109@news.usenetmonster.com...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 18:46:12 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
No, you're an *****.
It looks like the liberal ran out of steam.
Typical
___________________
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:47094670.34024812@news.newsguy.com...
Sounds like you've stopped arguing and have entered juvenile mode.
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 15:40:02 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
You're an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47093294.28941578@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 13:00:43 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
Busch is a liberal?
Yep. Just because he's not as radical as Kerry or Gore, doesn't
mean
he ain't a lib.
He turned his back on the people who elected him.
You;re an *****.
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <staying@home.net> wrote in message
news:47090659.17545359@news.prodigy.net...
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:13:57 -0400, "robw" <noddy093@comcast.net>
wrote:
When the Busch WH has had it's "T-Ball Day" games on the grounds
there
is
no
score kept.
Your thoughts????
Bush is a liberal. The latest evidence:
Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's
Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007
WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as
governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a
Mexican
national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. (snip)
"Bareass Hussein Osama" <here@home.org> wrote in message
news:4708f315.12542796@news.newsguy.com...
Eliminating competition from the lives of young children makes
them
intellectually lazy, a trait they bring into adulthood,
complete
with
an entitlement mentality: "I don't have to compete or win
because
I
already have self-esteem." Self-esteem comes from success,
from
winning, or at least from doing well at something
non-competitive.
But
when the world tells you that you deserve self-esteem without
having
to earn it, they are doing a tremendous disservice to those
they
believe they are helping to [gag] feel good about themselves.
It's no wonder the culture is filled with people who have the
idea
that they have infinite worth simply because they breathe.
________
In Praise Of Competition
By Burt Prelutsky
I would like to know the name of the buffoon who first decided
that
competition was a bad thing. Who was the silly goose who woke
up
one
morning with the goofy notion that kids shouldn't keep score
in
their
games so that the members of the losing team wouldn't suffer
from
low
self-esteem? And what fathead decided that high schools
shouldn't
have valedictorians because all the other seniors would feel
like
a
bunch of underachievers?
No doubt it was the same idiot who determined that a level
playing
field didn't really mean equal opportunity, but equal results.
But
who was he? Could it possibly have been, as I suspect, Dr.
Spock?
And, if so, why wasn't he ridden out of town on a rail?
It's not that I'm unaware that there can be a dark side to
competition, but that's only when the wrong people decide that
the
ends always justify the means, whether those means involve
lying,
stealing or back-stabbing.
(...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/in_praise_of_competition.html
.
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| User: "BizarroBush" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 09:30:36 PM |
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"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:D8mdnWhGUJRZ9JTanZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@comcast.com...
Take me on.
Got game?
Hank ain't got game to use his own name.
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| User: "Harold Burton" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
07 Oct 2007 09:36:34 PM |
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In article <D8mdnWhGUJRZ9JTanZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote:
Take me on.
Easy, into a battle of wits you enter unarmed.
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| User: "BizarroBush" |
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| Title: Re: Left-Wing Stupidity In The Educational System -- Eliminating Competition |
08 Oct 2007 02:07:19 PM |
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"Harold Burton" <hal.i.burton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hal.i.burton-AE789B.22363407102007@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
In article <D8mdnWhGUJRZ9JTanZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@comcast.com>,
"robw" <noddy093@comcast.net> wrote:
Take me on.
Easy, into a battle of wits you enter unarmed.
Not really. You just hate truth and truth always wins.
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