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Quotation Saturday: Education
Mamacita says: I’ve been writing exams for the college for the past two weeks, and my eyeballs are falling out of the sockets and spinning like a cartoon character’s. The only thing missing is the...
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Speeders, Texters, and Other Potential Highway Murderers
Mamacita says: All right, already, I’ll drive a little faster. Sheesh. But I know good and well who’s going to get pulled over, even with all the other drivers in the world going around me at a...
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Potty Mouth, Wiggly Little Boys, Recess, and Reading
“No two people are alike, and both of them are damn glad of it.” Mamacita says: That’s a quotation; that’s not me saying “damn,” although I frequently occasionally do. I am, to my shame, greatly...
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Wherein I Mourn the Death of Common Sense, and Admit to my Fogeyness
Mamacita says: I hate to think I’m turning into a fogey, or, even worse, am already there, but it seems to me that people are getting more and more ignorant by the minute. It doesn’t seem as though...
View ArticleI Worry About the Future
Mamacita says: I worry about the future. I worry about the future for different reasons than most people’s reasons. I worry about the future because present generations aren’t learning about the...
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I See Stupid People
Mamacita says: It worries me that so many of our students don’t have enough schema to make simple connections – at least, what were once considered simple connections. You know. Those people,...
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I Love Little Pussy
Mamacita says: People with tiny, limited vocabularies scare me. I am positive that these are the people who melt down in public and starting stabbing everyone within reach. It’s a fact that the...
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Those Who Burn Books Will, in the End, Burn Human Beings. . . .
Mamacita says: Banned Books week makes me sad. It’s a sad reminder that that there are such huge hordes of ignorant masses in the United States; we don’t like to remember it, and yet, sigh, there...
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Things That Scare Me
Mamacita says: I’m really not afraid of very many things, but those few things I am afraid of, I’m terrified of. TERRIFIED. Here are a few. 1. Driving in the dark on snowy roads with faded center and...
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The Dumbing Down of American Education
Mamacita says: Where did it begin, this ‘dumbing down’ of American education? Because, whether you want to admit it or not, our schools are set up to serve the lowest common denominator, and that is...
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My Semi-Pornographic Love Affair With Grammar
Sentence diagramming is really helpful. It’s also fun. Mamacita says: I love a good turn of phrase. I can be swept off my feet by it. I can be swayed and influenced and converted and my vote can be...
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Speeders, Texters, and Other Potential Highway Murderers
Mamacita says: All right, already, I’ll drive a little faster. Sheesh. But I know good and well who’s going to get pulled over, even with all the other drivers in the world going around me at a...
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Potty Mouth, Wiggly Little Boys, Recess, and Reading
“No two people are alike, and both of them are damn glad of it.” Mamacita says: That’s a quotation; that’s not me saying “damn,” although I frequently occasionally do. I am, to my shame, greatly...
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Wherein I Mourn the Death of Common Sense, and Admit to my Fogeyness
Mamacita says: I hate to think I’m turning into a fogey, or, even worse, am already there, but it seems to me that people are getting more and more ignorant by the minute. It doesn’t seem as though...
View ArticleI Worry About the Future
Mamacita says: I worry about the future. I worry about the future for different reasons than most people’s reasons. I worry about the future because present generations aren’t learning about the...
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I See Stupid People
Mamacita says: It worries me that so many of our students don’t have enough schema to make simple connections – at least, what were once considered simple connections. You know. Those people,...
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I Love Little Pussy
Mamacita says: People with tiny, limited vocabularies scare me. I am positive that these are the people who melt down in public and starting stabbing everyone within reach. It’s a fact that the...
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Those Who Burn Books Will, in the End, Burn Human Beings. . . .
Mamacita says: Banned Books week makes me sad. It’s a sad reminder that that there are such huge hordes of ignorant masses in the United States; we don’t like to remember it, and yet, sigh, there...
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Things That Scare Me
Mamacita says: I’m really not afraid of very many things, but those few things I am afraid of, I’m terrified of. TERRIFIED. Here are a few. 1. Driving in the dark on snowy roads with faded center and...
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The Dumbing Down of American Education
Mamacita says: Where did it begin, this ‘dumbing down’ of American education? Because, whether you want to admit it or not, our schools are set up to serve the lowest common denominator, and that is...
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