Great Creeping Credentialitis, Matban!
*heh*
This is just a teaser for tomorrow’s Thursday Thirteen, “Thirteen Ways to Improve Public Education”
From a collection of Chrstopher Anvil’s “space opera” stories, Interstellar Patrol II-The Federation of Humanity, edited by Eric Flint, this:
Is a blacksmith qualified because a qualified blacksmith says he’s qualified, or is he qualified because he can work in iron? And if he can’t work in iron, what is his qualification worth, and what is the qualification of the person who qualified him worth? There are two forms of qualification, you know. One is the license to practice. The other is the ability to do the job. One qualification is granted by authority. The other qualification is acquired by thought and work. How closely these two qualifications correspond generally depends on how well the constituted authorities understand the actual conditions. There are many cases where the authorities don’t understand.
Just so, is a teacher qualified to teach just because they attained some set of credentials as dictated by politicians and educrats (each a class of persons that can’t generally find their own butts with a mirror on a stick… although they generally have no trouble talking out their butts… )?
Just asking…
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Posted: September 12th, 2007 under Blogroll.
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Time September 12, 2007 at 1:58 AM
Rep Baghdad Jim McDermott gets Knighted, and violates the Constitution….
Only Jim McDermott.
McDermott knighted by king of Lesotho
Jim McDermott, congressman and doctor, has added another title: knight.
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Time September 12, 2007 at 5:59 AM
The Knucklehead of the Day award…
Today’s winner is former Philippine President Joseph Estrada….
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Time September 12, 2007 at 8:35 AM
An Offer We Must Refuse…
An Offer We Must Refuse BY: PHYLLIS CHESLER (posted by request) Here he is again, Big Brother holding forth, bearing poisoned gifts, giving the infidels a chance–both to convert and to see our own Stalinized image reflected back to us…
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Time September 12, 2007 at 9:08 AM
The Fruits of Four Years of Investigation and Nego…
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Time September 12, 2007 at 1:07 PM
Random Wednesday Thought: Fortitude…
Reaching major life goals sometimes feels a lot like playing a game of “last man standing” on the beach as the tide comes in.
Anyone who’s been six and gone to the beach knows what I’m talking about. End of the day. The sun…
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Time September 12, 2007 at 1:27 PM
TD # 9 forms RIGHT ON TOP OF US…
Tropical Depression Number 9 has formed in the Gulf of Mexico just south of Galveston/Houston. The storm is currently located about 85 miles south-southwest of Galveston and 135 miles east of Corpus Christi with maximum sustained winds of 35 MPH and …..
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Time September 12, 2007 at 3:21 PM
WARNING – Being Anti-War can make you a killer…
Whenever I see anti-War rallies there are always a number of whackjobs holding up signs that are so violent as to border on inciting to riot….
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Time September 12, 2007 at 4:07 PM
Dennis Kucinich: The U.S. Must Pay Reparations to the People of Iraq…
Should Kucinich be badmouthing our president and policies on foreign television, let alone within a nation we’re not exactly drinking buddies with? …
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Time September 12, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Distractions…
Burglaries in my neighborhood, a new cat in the house, and my surgery is less than a week away….
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Time September 12, 2007 at 4:48 PM
General Petraeus: A Man For All Reasons…
In “Petraeus rebuffs ‘war criminal’ critics”, on Breitbart.com, I read: The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, hit back Wednesday at anti-war critics who accused him of being a White House stooge during an emotive two days of testimony…
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Time September 12, 2007 at 7:34 PM
Terrorist Threatens Britney, Madonna…
What’s worse than the corrosion of our culture by Britney and her ilk? The solution proposed by this nutcase. Add it to the ever growing List, but don’t tell this guy.Muslim terrorist leaders threatened to forcibly convert Britney Spears and…
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Time September 12, 2007 at 8:16 PM
Tropical Storm Humberto…
Tropical Storm Humberto is coming ashore slowly somewhere between Freeport and Galveston, TX. The current track is actually further to the east than originally expected to we will get the left side of the storm but the eye will still pass mighty clos…..
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Time September 12, 2007 at 9:53 PM
Britney Spears’ Number One Fan: Leave Britney Alone!!!!…
Leave Britney alone *sob* *sob* *sob*!!!
This makes Britney not look so crazy any more doesn’t it!!!!
BTW – yes this is a guy and yes this is the video that everyone is watching right now. Over 2.3 million views yesterday alone.
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Time September 12, 2007 at 9:56 PM
More Chris Crocker Videos: Britney Spear’s Number One Fan…
Give Me More
The Britney Pool
Psycho Bitch
Woah!!! Dude’s losing it. Seriously, already lost it. Still, I’m rolling in the floor laughing.
Check out the dude’s MySpace: Chris Crocker MySpace
Who am I? It’s more like WHA…
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Time September 12, 2007 at 10:22 PM
The Committee for Ex-Muslims Campaigns for Freedom…
One young muslim attempts to campaign for freedom of religion in islam. He gets a fatwah for his efforts. Guess that’s a ‘no’….
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Time September 12, 2007 at 10:41 PM
Muslim Terrorists Leaders Threaten to Kill Madonna…
They must have REALLY not liked Britney’s performance the other night!…
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Time September 12, 2007 at 11:05 PM
I Need Your Opinion……
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Time September 12, 2007 at 11:16 PM
I?ve Had Jury Duty This Week…
I?ve had jury duty all week and just called the juror information number and found out I have to show up again tomorrow! I?m so bummed.
Its not that its that hard or that I have a problem doing my civic duty, its just that I don?t get picked for …
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Time September 12, 2007 at 11:19 PM
Ask Me Anything…
Ask Me Anything #1
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Time September 13, 2007 at 5:54 AM
The Knuckleheads of the Day award…
Today’s winners are the New England Patriots Football team and their Head Coach Bill Belichick….
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Time September 13, 2007 at 7:47 AM
Over the top…
A deadbeat Dad named Terry Glover, who owed over 81,000 in child support, isn’t happy with the $1 million settlement for one son who was shot by a police officer. My heart bleeds…….NOT!…
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Time September 12, 2007 at 1:03 AM
Contrast: How Liberals and Conservatives chose to commemorate 9/11…
I will let you the reader make up your own mind if this is significant or not. I personally think it is, that it is a part of that core difference between liberals and conservatives.
I will not say by any means this is conclusive, or that it…