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2016 Postmortem

Octafish

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5. Did I ask if you've seen 'Where to Invade Next,' Wilms?

Reply to Wilms (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 3, 2016, 02:47 PM

Mar 2016

If so, sorry to repeat myself. If not, the movie is an indictment of the last 45 years.

Michael Moore went to Finland and discovered the Finnish schools are cranking out the most intelligent graduates on the planet.

Their secret: No homework; as well as short school days, quality teachers, no standardized tests, uniform codes--not for students and teachers--but for all the country's schools.

Like in the antebellum south, where it was illegal to teach a slave to read: The USA is intent on creating generation upon generation of ignoramuses.

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Bernie Sanders Says Hyde Park (UChicago) Made Him a Socialist, Social Justice Advocate [View all] Octafish Mar 2016 OP

^ Wilms Mar 2016 #1

UChicago taught Sanders to THINK. Octafish Mar 2016 #2

Many who do come up with the same two answers. Wilms Mar 2016 #3

Did I ask if you've seen 'Where to Invade Next,' Wilms? Octafish Mar 2016 #5

The Intentional Cultivation of a Criminal Class Wilms Mar 2016 #7

Bernie is really trying tooooo hard but that's ok. nt Jitter65 Mar 2016 #4

Yeah. His entire adult life he's worked to make this a better planet for ALL. Octafish Mar 2016 #6