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Well take a bloody bath before you come them. That should get rid of it.

Totally pretentious and all aren't we dear. Would you like to come over to the peasants place and have a cup of tea with biscuits, or sandwiches?

So that is why you don't use a dictionary, you can't stand the smell of yourself after doing some work.

Oh but I did. In seventh grade it was part of a story we read. Let me do the sweaty work for you though. Snake oil, (medicine) any of various liquids ...

So pretend you have a whole one and compare the definitions in the dictionary. Let's try the new online one instead, although the definition is exactl...

It just popped into my head as I was getting ready to leave so I wrote it down thinking that it might make sense to someone. It is open to interpretat...

Did you look up the meaning of snake oil? :cool:

Congratulations, here is a :clap: :clap: :clap: or 2 for you. But I doubt that you have considered everything about what was said. Was the first quest...

So you do not consider me to be in the category of people? Bloody charming. Do a poll to find out if anyone understood what you meant. The only thing ...

I don't see how you could possibly be surprised that people don't understand what you mean.

Put some snake oil on it then.

I don't see the point to this. Pretentiousness, noun, The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false app...

Does anyone remember the thread at the old place that asked about the last post. Not sure about the exact words but it went something like this I thin...

Oh what blankets on our bed when we use a can of worms for thread.

What would you consider a well thought out, wise question? Is there any that you would like to ask?

Stay in the shade Tiff. Keep cool about the way life moves on, cus there ain't a damn thing you nor anyone else can do about it. Have a smiley. :smile...

What could I possibly disagree with or agree with, you did not make a statement but asked a question. Oh, the question mark is missing. No, I did not ...

I am sure that Plato would disagree with the orientals. I do too, even my avatar does.

Is that a philosophical question, an ironical question or do you really want to know? It seems to me that if you think that we would know the answer t...

And in this sense the purpose of education is to change their behavior to suit the society. Behavior as in the way they live their lives, not as in di...

Does it not stand to reason, even by your own definition, that one must be in possession of knowledge to be able to impart it to others? I impart some...

Is it not the process by which one carries on a conversation? One party asks a question, the other answers. There would be very few conversations in t...

No, I asked you to explain what you think education is. As you seem to have the best answers for everything I thought I might take advantage of your w...

If you had read the thread it might be more than obvious why the topic was being descussed. Are you part of the 75%? Your habit of making supercilious...

I live in Central America, the Catholics are losing ground every day to the Evangelicals. But most of the candidates are catholic, they just don't use...

It would be impossible for most teachers to go beyond giving students anything more than the basics of their knowledge. How could a teacher that has a...

Your not a catholic so it does not matter to you? or This discussion is about Catholics so it does not matter?

Instead of writing all of this useless balderdash would it not have been nicer to really discuss the differences of how we each understand what educat...

They are taking over. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article207342744.html

I doubt anyone is up to the task of figuring out what goes on in your mind. How can asking a simple question be a charade? Only in your mind. But if y...

Avoidance is a defense mechanism, but I suppose that you being the embodiment of knowledge would already know that.

And what special qualifications do you have to be the judge? I think that my opinion is just as good as yours. I thought that I had already explained ...

5 was the best version. Get actualized once in a while will you.

There is nothing odd about the question. As you yourself have so often pointed out, words have several meanings. I would like to know what you, person...

Why did you not just go ahead and break it down and be done with it, instead of bringing it over here?

So what is education then?

If you mean by this, what subjects do I teach, then the answer is quite a few over the years. I have worked mostly in bi-lingual schools so it is not ...

Critical thinking, investigation and evaluation, written and oral communication skills are some of the things I call basic knowledge. I expect my high...

No, it is the main activity of a teacher. Your definition of behavior is too narrow. You take it as whether they are good or bad boys and girls. Every...

I do that often as well, pause to take a deep breath. That is a reasonable take on what a teacher is supposed to be. But it goes way beyond that. You ...

To modify the behavior of those being educated.

If it is an erection, then it has to be useful. To someone at least.

No, because you are cruel to cats. If you are going to eat one you should at least look at Alf's 1,000 ways to cook your cat book. Some of those recip...

Some people just cannot leave the universe to run its natural course. How can someone be so cruel as to tell Hanover that he is amusing? Oh the end is...

Meeting an ex student, that hated me, on the street and getting a warm thank you

Now I remember why I stopped coming to this thread. :worry:

It's just that you should not let a hamster debate with a frog. Why don't you try a toad with a rat? Is there a _____________ in the forum. We need on...

The Greeks won the Great Tomato War of 1386. It makes _________ to be ______________

As long as you as are not going backwards on the inbound lane, no problem. :grin:

Because we all got locked out. you cannot continue the game without access to it.