Last blog I wrote about various verifiable facts on the 112th Congress. Ironically, last Sunday the NY Times had a quiz in their Education Life Section on the 112th. Add this test to your schedule. Think of it as a break from studying for finals. Here is the quiz:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/09/education/edlife/20110109-edlife-quiz.html?ref=edlife
Because we have clearly established it is politically incorrect and socially unattractive to worry about grades I won’t ask how you did! You will know how well you did because it is a multiple choice test and you can calculate your score. As we examine the very interesting and important esoteric questions of truth and fiction, we will be present our views through our individual prisms and we will be evaluated based on the prisms of another. Unfortunately, the world outside AS is not as patient and does not always have the time to assess and categorize our multiple intelligences on multiple factors. Most colleges want the score card. Will we know the facts as presented in the quiz above? Our junior year is a battery of ACTs, SATs, SAT Subjects, APs and Prairie States. How well will we know the facts and chronologies that make up the history of the United States? It does matter. Particularly today, facts are needed when news agencies and politicians spin history to suit their goals. Michael Steele (RNC ex-chairman) said his favorite book was War and Peace and then quoted the first line as, "These were the best of times, these were the worst of times..." John Boehner (House speaker) said he was quoting the constitution when he said,"We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights including life liberty and the pursuit of happiness." They both have their facts wrong. Will you know your facts by the end of junior year? When will you have the time to learn them?
Good luck on your weighted GPAs next week.
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