Well go for it then.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I never made an assertion about the disservice of a catholic education. i never thought you'd be one to believe something without proof.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

He said it was his opinion. There's no way to quantify such a thing, so that's really all we can go based on.

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It is my opinion and I can base it around strong logic. You asked me to show it in a way I don't know how to statistically. If you claim it is easy then you go ahead and do it and prove me wrong.

Imagine if there was a school where every single child spent one hour a day reading and discussing "The Grapes of Wrath" and another school where that hour was spent on science and math. I would believe that the school that did the science and math was better allocating learning time. You could ask me to prove it but I think there are too many factors to simply break it down even though the answer is obvious that reading and discussing "The Grapes Of Wrath" is not the right answer.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

There was a lot of math in Genesis.

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Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.- JD Vance
If you committed violence on that day, obviously, you shouldn’t be pardoned.- JD Vance on the J-6 insurrectionists

you know what's funny? this is pretty much what i end up telling people when i make the mistake of admitting that i can (freestyle) rap; of course your quote is translated into "anal-retentive grown up" as opposed to whatever you wanna call my BS ("wrongspeak" ?? =)

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actually I don't find it obvious at all. A kid that did nothing but read great literature would be FAR more educated than one who did math and science all day. Not to mention happier and a better citizen.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I remember it being letters, like Abacab.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Give me the math and science focus. Most employers don't care about your Melville and Hawthorne knowledge in an interview. Great literature is fine, but spending lots of time on it is best done as leisure activity.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

aw, Don, and I put you in my intelligent schema.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

One book. Not literature.

Don't be dishonest with your replies.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

you are so incoherent I can't follow. You think catholic education relates to one book? try thousands of books covering history, philosophy, languages, political science, etc etc.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

How much science and math are you gonna cover in that hour?

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Freedom is our Strength.

Anyone who wouldn't trade their time wasted reading Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales for time spent learning how to code CSS, C#, or Python should probably be launched by a trebuchet into an active tire fire.

Also, Google spellcheck didn't recognize or know what the word 'trebuchet' was, and I can't decide which side of this argument to blame that on.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Douchebag should be here soon to tell you feelings don't count and you can't ask people to prove a negative or something.

No, but they care enough enough to make sure their kids are studying them while your kid is in trade school.

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Freedom is our Strength.

Wrong. I'll hire goofs to do my coding.

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Freedom is our Strength.

I think it (sort of) depends on the student. Different minds benefit from different things for different tasks.

You should waste your time reading Hemingway so that I don't have to parse this purple prose.

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Though MANY dont agree, books are four DESK JOCKIES and kids who cant cut it in real estste!

Want to be middle MANAGMENT, read books. Want to kick JUAN out of his 1 bedroom and make$$$$,,,,,,,, hit the streets and learn!

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yeah, It's Big Brane!

Some minds benefit from a hammer to the back of the head too.

I'm just mostly derailing an idiot discussion for my own amusement.

Frankly, in a more sane version of my reply, I said essentially that which you did ... that there's gotta be a balance that is then, ideally anyway, individually tailored to the student to both accentuate their talents and abilities in certain areas and concurrently compensate for lack of same in other areas.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Hard to argue.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I changed the entire focus of the thread.

There are state mandates for amount of time spent on subject matters. Archdiocese schools have a longer school day and more days in school. Everyone happy?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

The Grapes of Wrath is terrific but East of Eden is my favorite Steinbeck. I bought it used for 25 cents at the Gurnee library but lost it at an airport. I miss it.

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I was perfectly clear. I never said it was only about one book. However, one period is dedicated to the study of one book.

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no it is not. you have no idea what you are talking about.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Yeah, I was thinking...I like Math and Physics and have always done well in those areas. I don't freaking understand Chemistry, and I don't think hours spent trying to learn it wouldn't be a benefit. People are suited for different jobs having them learn something they can't do is a waste of time and energy.

Hatchetman seems to have done a good job in distracting from the idea that it isn't about reading. Literature is a great subject in school. My hypothetical is if you read and discussed one specific book for an hour a day for every day for your entire school life.

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What is the primary focus of Theology?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!