Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "Why did the School System Fail?" video.

  1.  @bobwhite9248  don't check your line with soap, have your supervisor check your work, orange tape, gray dope, hand tight, quarter turn, now you're the lowest level of gasfitter
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  2. IQ measures pattern recognition, as a basis for problem solving. Also IQ can go up due to setting familiarity - forget the name of the guy, was cited by Thomas Sowell, basically when you run kids through the IQ test a couple of times, the racial difference in IQ shrinks by three quarters or so - and there was also a case of a guy who was in for the death penalty for shooting people outside of ATMs to take their cash who ended up initially testing as legally retarded, then the prosecution ordered a do-over and he scored well in the 80s, which his lawyers attributed to trying to understand abstract arguments, but could also have had an element of setting familiarity as well
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  3. and I did NOT like that you brought up Germany. The German apprenticeship system, much like the German system of private insurance oligopolists donating health insurance to the poors as part of their cartel, works in Germany, where it is surrounded by cultural Germans.
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  4.  @jackdeniston59  The classical Chinese - hell, the pre-classical Chinese - loved having their bureaucrats do essays. The story of the composition of The Classic of the Way and Virtue is that an old man was driving a cart out from the borders of a state into unincorporated territory, and the border official stopped him and forced him to write an essay as a final tax on leaving the state to explain why it was that he was on his way out. You read say the Legge translation of that one, as it goes from this mysticism and analogies of primal matter and archetypes at the front, through descriptions of the ideal ruler, finally, right at the end, to the classic lines "let the state be small and the people few," and it sort of puts it context, you know.
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  5.  @jackdeniston59  or in other words, one of the three indigenous Chinese intellectual traditions originated as an essay
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  6. dude the Ontario teachers union is a monster from hell in terms of exactly the problems he was going on about as far as teachers creating conditions that work for them
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  7. I forget where I read it, but the argument went that when Adam Smith published Wealth of Nations in 1776, he could credibly claim to have read everything pertinent to the subject, which was something which has approached impossible in nearly every field of human endeavour in the quarter millennium thereafter.
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  8. There are a minority of creative women, but...I have no idea how they're supposed to distinguish themselves in modern times with the taint of diversity hiring constantly attached to their gender and the relentless depression imposed by the modern human resources department and its auxiliaries. If there is a Jane Austen or a Frieda Kahlo in modern times, I don't think she's going to get much further than writing rambles on social media or curating her IG, which may or may not be discovered by some learning machine a few centuries from now. The longhouse is plainly thoroughly opposed to female creative excellence. Further, males can be broken into organizers of files, and with the imposition of tremendous stress, be made to multitask.
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  9. I like that you ended this one by repeating your call for more boys' charters from your video where you brought that up as an implicit solution to your guess about what would reduce school shootings.
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  10. The funnest tit bits about 40k and Fantasy Battle lore for me were those Rick Priestley quotes where he'd just explain how he pulled something out of his ass in the 1980s as quickly as he could, and ow that's some beloved part of a moment in early adolescence for millions of boys and hundreds of girls. The Dark Elf lore is something I never appreciated up until I read some stuff on the difficulty of distinguishing between Tory and Jacobite narratives, which all tend to be the Fisher King - put the true king in place and everything will be right - i. e. Narnia, The Lion King, the Aragorn arc of LotR. Whereas Malekith is the true king of the elves, he's an evil dark magic using bastard who is promptly rejected by the gods of the elves, then runs away across the water to get up to no good. It is an unmistakably Tory narrative, albeit one plainly created with the sole purpose of making fun of Toryism.
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  11.  @galymzhankyrykbaev2976  I feel like when ISIS evaporated in Syria in the late 2010s - whether that was because Trump cut their funding or for some other reason - the propaganda engine that had been going through the War on Terror stoking distrust between Muslims and Christians was also allowed to run dry.
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  12. He looped back to charters, around the end. Cheers.
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  13. Had the British stayed out of WWI, there would have been a LOT of 20th and 21st century tragedies which would have been avoided.
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  14.  @colebehnke7767  It did somewhat sound like that movement to have fewer police officers, didn't it?
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  15. mmm...the problem with that argument is that 3/4 of the racial difference in IQ disappears when children are run through the test in several iterations and show lower anxiety toward the test-taking environment. As in, it gets pretty damned close to an error term.
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  16.  @Hackenschmidt.  This dude in the 1960s did it with American children. Forget his name. Cited by Thomas Sowell.
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  17. mmm 1987 Czech Republic was still behind the Iron Curtain, no?
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  18. I like how how it rattled to you to the point that you mask offed with the insinuation that "diverse backgrounds" might have an issue with formal language.
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  19. Bingo.
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  20. well it worked for Voltaire, at least according to Will Durant
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  21. well one would need to have a Stalin step in, and bring the ruler down on the desks of the teachers, for a start
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  22. multiple replies and edits. My, aren't your jimmies rustled. 😃
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  23.  @mam0lechinookclan607  If it shows up for you, look up a visualization of immigration and emigration of people who have filed patents broken up by country.
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  24. It goes back before the alphabet soup. Also if anything there has been a moderate pushback. My end of Toronto, the local day care had three flags, the indigenous genocide flag, the national flag, and the pedophile swastika. A couple of alphabets then got vocal on social about wanting physically to attack day care workers. The day care now has only the orange flag and the leaf. I would not put it past the fag-hag networks which have been the primary means of power projection of the alphabet ideology to hit a certain point where the people in them start to say "hold on, this isn't just not picking on a younger version of me, this is horrifying."
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  25.  @Donner906  I can't quite retain which YouTuber Contrapoints was, but the name does ring a bell.
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  26. and yet something in the area of two fifths of American youth have not heard of the Holocaust. Not that I can blame the teachers for that one - why would one stick ones neck into a topic like that? Especially around youth, and if it is not a required topic on the curriculum. Even if it isn't illegal to get things slightly off, the reputational blowback just isn't worth it.
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  27. I used to smoke with one dude who said that his view was that if all science students were forced to take one credit in philosophy and all arts students were forced to take one credit in statistics a lot of the problems of this world would be avoided.
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  28.  @Megabean  You didn't watch the video and you don't live in Canada. That's cool. Have a good one, man.
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