Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. - MaxedOutMama

I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. Kim du Toit

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them. Moshe Ben-David

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The New New Math

Unix-Jedi emailed me a link to this one. Sabra of Trailer Park Paradise tells the story of her third-grade daughter and the San Antonio school system's "Strategies" method of teaching multiplication. Quote of the day:
We learned a saying in Russian...повторение мать улица. Repetition is the mother of learning. Drills don't sound fun, but you know what? They work.
Yes, they do. But apparently they don't build a child's self-esteem.
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