Hey Larry, Interesting indeed, and I can attest to its truth. I've "gone back to school" - never went to college as a young man. I'm now, I guess, an official "college senior".
I don't know the answers to about half those questions you listed. But then again I'm almost twenty years farther away from my high school and earlier education. We have not been required to learn that information about our country or government here at this respected private college. What we have been required to "learn" in every single class other than some of the math and science and art ones, is that our country is bad, and that Americans are backwards and should feel guilty and look to Europe for salvation. Traditional Judeo-Christian concepts are regularly ridiculed and laughed at by the enlightened Phd instructors, history is revised, and the Koran and Bhuddism etc. are looked to for inspiration. Wisdom can also be found by looking to Mother Earth and the animals (of which we are the most wicked). This is a Catholic college. Oh well, whatever it takes to be able to get a decent job. Brian On 1/17/07, LarryT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In our recent discussions about education, etc - I found this in my in box today -- <<the Intercollegiate Studies Institute by the University of Connecticut's Department of Public Policy, surveyed 14,094 college freshmen and seniors at 50 U.S. colleges and universities from Massachusetts to California. It found a stunning ignorance. Seniors scored an average of 53.2 on the 60-question civics test. That's a big, fat F. More than half of college seniors could not identify the correct century in which the Jamestown colony was founded or name the battle that ended the American Revolution. Truly frightening, more than half also did not know that the Bill of Rights forbids the federal government from establishing a national religion. These are college seniors. Among the institutions whose students were surveyed: Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Michigan. It should go without saying that in a republic, civic education is a fundamental necessity. If even our elite college graduates have no idea what the First Amendment does, the country is in trouble.">> I thought it interesting -- Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D) www.youroil.net for Oil Analysis and Weber Parts Test Results http://members.rennlist.com/oil PORSCHE POSTERS! youroil.net Weber Carb Info http://members.rennlist.com/webercarbs Porsche Road Test http://members.rennlist.com/roadtest/ . ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brodbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Mercedes Quality > Tom Hargrave wrote: >> I'm sure that today's Mercedes are more reliable (better quality) than >> those >> manufactured in the 90's and those manufactured in the 90's are more >> reliable (better quality) than those manufactured in the 80's, etc, etc. >> > > A lot of the complaints seem to be in the "fit and finish" category. > Interior pieces falling off, paint flaking off, etc. Those things don't > make a car unreliable, but they do really hurt its image. It seems like > when a car maker wants to cut costs, the interior is the first place > they go. GM's current cars, for example, drive pretty nicely but they > have the interior materials of a much cheaper vehicle. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.12/631 - Release Date: 1/16/2007 > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
