Something tells me that a great many of those educated by our current university system would have great difficulty in reading and understanding this address.
They’re all literal, they have no real worldly experience and can’t comprehend what our forefathers meant (even the educated ones) because these men spoke with conviction and wisdom.
Never have we ever lived in a time where we can better see the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
This is how I've felt for a long time. I see people who are intelligent but are not wise far too often. People with little application of life experiences. People who form conviction from emotions. It's sad to see.
In early American education, for many Americans, the only book in their house was The Bible - and it was probably the King James version. If your house had two books, the other was likely to be a collection of Shakespeare.
Book collections weren't common in everyday American homes until the cost of book production became more affordable.
It's easy to understand the results when those were the texts your mother used to teach you how to read and write.
I always use the Bible when studying foreign languages to compare grammatical structures, practice translation, learn idioms, etc. I use an English one and one in whatever language I’m studying. Very useful!
Totally! One of the most handy things I did was memorize some verses in the target language that I knew verbatim in English. I broke down the structures of both, and from then on I had grammatical references for the other language that I could simply retrieve from my brain notes during exams lol.
The King James Version of the Bible and Shakespeare were also the main usage examples used in Websters Dictionary up until the 60s.
I bought an Unabridged Websters from 1938 off ebay awhile back and what has happened to English in America, as well as what has happened to dictionaries in general all map to the Sam effort to erasf our history and change definitions of words, as well as destroy nuance.
Something tells me that a great many of those educated by our current university system would have great difficulty in reading and understanding this address.
They’re all literal, they have no real worldly experience and can’t comprehend what our forefathers meant (even the educated ones) because these men spoke with conviction and wisdom.
Never have we ever lived in a time where we can better see the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
This is how I've felt for a long time. I see people who are intelligent but are not wise far too often. People with little application of life experiences. People who form conviction from emotions. It's sad to see.
Work in Higher Ed. Can confirm!
In early American education, for many Americans, the only book in their house was The Bible - and it was probably the King James version. If your house had two books, the other was likely to be a collection of Shakespeare.
Book collections weren't common in everyday American homes until the cost of book production became more affordable.
It's easy to understand the results when those were the texts your mother used to teach you how to read and write.
I always use the Bible when studying foreign languages to compare grammatical structures, practice translation, learn idioms, etc. I use an English one and one in whatever language I’m studying. Very useful!
That's a very good idea, I should try that too.
Totally! One of the most handy things I did was memorize some verses in the target language that I knew verbatim in English. I broke down the structures of both, and from then on I had grammatical references for the other language that I could simply retrieve from my brain notes during exams lol.
The King James Version of the Bible and Shakespeare were also the main usage examples used in Websters Dictionary up until the 60s.
I bought an Unabridged Websters from 1938 off ebay awhile back and what has happened to English in America, as well as what has happened to dictionaries in general all map to the Sam effort to erasf our history and change definitions of words, as well as destroy nuance.
As well by their parents and perhaps even their grandparents. I don't think the failure is recent.