US Citizenship test
I don’t know how (must have been a fluke, or thanks to an especially good US Politics instructor I had a number of years ago) but I got 18/ 20. Two wrong ain’t too bad at all. Take the test here.
On a more serious note, see here for a criticism of the new test. I’m quite happy with my citizenship, thank you very much, I just enjoy taking quizzes. ;)
90% here. I guessed right on the arcane name of the naturalization form but I guessed wrong the reason the Pilgrams came here. I thought they came here to meet the Native Americans. Isn’t that what Tanks giving is all about?
Naming the subdocuments of the constitution is a useful excercise for lawyers. They let my buy stamps without command this kind of knowledge.
Well done, arise Sir Servant Savant ;) I also guessed the arcane name of the naturalization form, so it was just luck.
Regarding the Arthur Neslen article, thanks to the Hanged Man too. :) I think your assessment is depressingly spot on
and that is why I think global lobbying efforts might be more judiciously applied in the US. And most other Americans, as indeed other affluent citizens elsewhere, are too caught in the headlights of consumerism and enticed by their plasma screens and consumer electronics to want to care too much, with heartening exceptions.
Unfortunately (fortunately?), all this aggregates and eventually has a boomerang effect. This comes in various guises of course but with the same result: we ignore the effects of our willful and determinedly ignorant destruction at our peril.
To round off with reference to another interesting link you kindly posted in comments, another Atlantis perhaps?
Thanks, Ann
Defining evil is not an easy proposition. Some would leave the whole subject until it becomes tractable by science [a little IED love note for my friend Hanged]. Maybe evil has properties like those of obsenity, which the Supreme Court of the United States, has been unable to constuct a valid legal test. Maybe it’s just something you can’t define, but you know it when you see it.
Caterwalling about the value of philosophy vs. science is not a subject I am interested in, but the positive value of these dialogues for me has been a major source of learning, and I expect that it provides this value to others. There are those of us who sit in the back of the classroom as it were. We listen and learn even though we do not always know what to say.
From Synchronicity by Joseph Jaworsky
Does education really “do” anything?
Sorry – to polute your blog comments with my personal dialogues. Not really. That’s the stated purpose of reclaiming space. I feel safe in this.
Love and value the discussion, please do keep it up and feel at home here anytime. Anyone who reads may surmise they’ve skipped a beat because part of the dialogue was via email, but this portion of it is fine as stand-alone discussion anyway. I have some ideas on whether education does in fact help and look forward to airing and sharing them soon. Just a point of clarification: which part of the quote was from Synchronicity by Joseph Jaworsky in contradistinction to David Bohm? (who incidentally is an intriguing read). More soon.