Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bbn.com!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!md3b+ From: md3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Donald Drown) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: I have here.. Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 90 04:08:00 GMT References: , <1990Nov13.181742.10791@odin.corp.sgi.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: <1990Nov13.181742.10791@odin.corp.sgi.com> >archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Doctor Benway) writes: >In >md3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Donald Drown) writes: >* >*You can't expect such a diverse audience, here on the net, to all know a >*speech that was given before most of us were born. It is not stressed in >*school, like "four score and seven years ago..." Nor should it be, the >*general idea behind McCarthy's idiotic behavior should be looked at. >* > >The only excuse for not recognizing that speach is poor education. So now we have gotten down to insulting the intelligence of fellow netters. I have a poor education, or was taught badly, because I don't know about the patterns (or the exact) speech. This is bullshit. Why should teachers stress the learning of speeches. Memorizing speeches ranks in there with some of most worthless learning I have done in my years. I would much rater learn about what McCarthy did, and then I would know more about that. In that learning someone would have read that speach to me, or I would have read it myself. It would not have stuck in my head. Can you recognize speeches given by Carter when the hostages came back? No, I can't. Nor should I care if I can't. I should know what was going on then, and understand other things about that time period, but what the president said when the hostages stepped off the plane is worthless information for people who play trivial pursuit for cash. -Matt (md3b@andrew.cmu.edu) "Hear the crashing steel, feel the stearing wheel."