Lincoln Research

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(04-21-2017 02:42 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 10:30 AM)L Verge Wrote:  

(04-21-2017 04:03 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  Laurie, I have never meant to attack anyone in person (feedback on the products was asked for) and basically agree on positive enforcement and the importance and necessity to teach from various angles. Yet IMO an advanced university student should be aware of the importance to provide sources/evidence, the more the less room for dialogue, and the responsibility you take over when spreading the truth under the academic seal. I frankly was disappointed of the lack thereof. Mass media is a tool of great benefits, but also great destructive potential, hence my request for responsibility.
So far and without, the "various angles" respectively what the reader gets IMO isn't "the truth" but one "blind man's description" of it (of an elephant).

I think what we all are missing here is that we are only seeing what Dani posted on social media sites -- not her more scholastic essay which was turned into her college professor. That is where I suspect you will find numerous citations.

To post them on quick-and-easy social media would turn off the masses. If the intellectuals among the masses want to pick up on her thoughts and then do research on their own, she has done her job well.

I personally doubt this way of presentation things attracts intellectuals in the search of enlightenment. Maybe I am too old-school to imagine. As for the others - how can they know this site is trustworthy and others that look the same and promise another truth aren't? And would they search for more or stick with the one truth they happened to came across? (My understanding of "newly created genre" was the intention to be the wheat that clearly separates from the cuff.)

However, it's not my business anymore to care of students' or anyone's education, or the level thereof, or the limit of the masses' intellectual level for not to put past to.

I apologize for my input here and regret spending so much time on this which I urgently had needed for my own studying (@Wild Bill - I understand more than ever why you turned to something different.)

I'm sorry if my posts have irritated you and others, Eva. I can only say that I have a 16-year-old grandson who is glued to his computer and social media. He is a straight-A student (throughout the years) and was recently inducted into the National Honor Society - and he's not a nerd.

I happen to know first-hand that intelligent students (no matter the age) will take their cues from social media - or society in general - and delve deeper into subjects that interest and matter to them. I have had some very interesting conversations/arguments with him on a variety of topics. Never underestimate a person's desire to learn. The spark is there, you just have to fan the flame.

That said, I'm done too...