That figures....
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Yeah, that's an important one, I definitely use that all the time, makes the code reviews interesting ;)
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28987787[^] The Department for Education said its aim was to prepare children for "life in modern Britain" ... by studying at least two Shakespeare plays. :wtf:
don't worry it is only until Labour gets in then it will be replaced by 2 TOWIE episodes
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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don't worry it is only until Labour gets in then it will be replaced by 2 TOWIE episodes
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
Ha well I suppose TOWIE is contemporary show. Maybe it has some relevance ... :~ I would hope that they temper it with this though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4r_a5adehs[^]
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Given that the new curriculum is being foisted on them by a bunch of people who have no clue and sticking to old-fashioned, often dogmatic, approaches about what they should be doing, I'd say all this over-prepares them for a life in modern Britain. I would say a working life, but I guess that opportunity will be denied to a lot of them. As for Shakespeare, my experience is the schools (as the knife addled rape shed I went to did) will take the easiest options, namely the "comedies". Comedy- perhaps, funny - nope. Two years studying A Midsummer's Night's Dream and Twelfth night, and the funniest thing was the name "Titania". Seeing one of the "proper" plays - "King Lear" later in life was a revelation though. Sill, I guess 16th/17th century plays set in some kingly palace or other will all be immediately relevant to a child born in Felling 400+ years later.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Keith Barrow wrote:
funniest thing was the name "Titania"
And Bottom. Don't forget Bottom.
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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Keith Barrow wrote:
funniest thing was the name "Titania"
And Bottom. Don't forget Bottom.
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
Heheheheh.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28987787[^] The Department for Education said its aim was to prepare children for "life in modern Britain" ... by studying at least two Shakespeare plays. :wtf:
I am probably a bit of an outlier on this - I think this is a brilliant idea. I studied the Scottish play when I was fourteen and read and saw other plays, written by the Bard, in my early twenties. I do have something of a bias as I was a voracious reader of English literature in my twenties and encourage everyone to explore the treasure trove that is our great literary tradition in the UK(I don't include Dan Brown...).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I am probably a bit of an outlier on this - I think this is a brilliant idea. I studied the Scottish play when I was fourteen and read and saw other plays, written by the Bard, in my early twenties. I do have something of a bias as I was a voracious reader of English literature in my twenties and encourage everyone to explore the treasure trove that is our great literary tradition in the UK(I don't include Dan Brown...).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
I'm being facetious really, I don't have a problem with learning about Shakespeare. It's just that they are harping on about 'modern Britain' at the same time. ;) Although ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM-Y1ch4b5c[^]
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I am probably a bit of an outlier on this - I think this is a brilliant idea. I studied the Scottish play when I was fourteen and read and saw other plays, written by the Bard, in my early twenties. I do have something of a bias as I was a voracious reader of English literature in my twenties and encourage everyone to explore the treasure trove that is our great literary tradition in the UK(I don't include Dan Brown...).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
My father was often beaten as a child at school, once for stating that in his view Shakespeare was "a tit-brained quill pusher". I preferred reading Tom Sharpe when I got to school, although the English teacher thought that inappropriate.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm assuming they'll be treating Latin as one of the compulsory 'Modern Foreign Languages' ;P Glad someone got to use that one. They get upset when I kick a ball around the office!
Being able to swear in Latin comes in handy at times...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
