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bdmazur
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A student in an education course at NCSU was asked to finish the following statement:

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"I expect the strangest thing about moving from being a student to being a teacher will be..."


This student's answer:

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"The one thing that I would find the strangest from being a student to a teacher would be the ability to start teaching of what I know to students. It is the overcoming of fear that one has to take control over to succeed in. Once that is achieved than it would be mostly smooth sailing."


Count the mistakes. Ready, go.

8/21/2009 12:59:55 AM

j_sun
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I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh...people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and...I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our...

8/21/2009 1:03:12 AM

Metricula
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Quote :
"like such as South Africa"

8/21/2009 1:11:12 AM

GREEN JAY
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get out of here, Miss America

8/21/2009 1:17:57 AM

j_sun
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are.. is a children learnding

8/21/2009 1:20:08 AM

bdmazur
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It is almost understandable that a beauty queen would mess up a speech on national television.

However, a university student who types something up for a class, and has the opportunity to proofread before submitting, should not be this bad.

8/21/2009 1:28:08 AM

j_sun
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THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA IS GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN

8/21/2009 1:31:25 AM

DoeoJ
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i watched the video of the miss america thing again.



wow.

8/21/2009 8:05:36 AM

LaserSoup
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Quote :
""The one thing that I would find the strangest from being a student to a teacher would be the ability to start teaching of what I know to students. It is the overcoming of fear that one has to take control over to succeed in. Once that is achieved than it would be mostly smooth sailing.""


TNTC...I'm trying to understand what they're trying to communicate but it makes no sense.

8/21/2009 8:38:30 AM

SaabTurbo
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Quote :
"I expect the strangest thing about moving from being a student to being a teacher will be... The one thing that I would find the strangest from being a student to a teacher would be the ability to start teaching of what I know to students. It is the overcoming of fear that one has to take control over to succeed in. Once that is achieved than it would be mostly smooth sailing."


This is what I gathered from it:

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"I expect the strangest thing about moving from being a student to being a teacher will be the transition from learning to teaching. I will have to control and overcome my unnamed fears in order to succeed as a teacher. Once I have done so, it will be smooth sailing."




Most of what they wrote was a bunch of what they probably thought of as "fancy talk" that the "essay people must want to hear". This was probably a very simpleminded person who thought that "sophisticated people" just switch words around and say things in a confusing manner in order to "sound more sophisticated".

8/21/2009 8:44:47 AM

sylvershadow
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is your student named Sarah Palin?

8/21/2009 9:17:30 AM

bdmazur
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Its not my student, that would be very unethical of me. I just happened to see it on a vista board on a friend's computer.

8/21/2009 1:26:12 PM

Jennabelle
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Quote :
"Most of what they wrote was a bunch of what they probably thought of as "fancy talk" that the "essay people must want to hear". This was probably a very simpleminded person who thought that "sophisticated people" just switch words around and say things in a confusing manner in order to "sound more sophisticated". "


Hopefully this is a teacher outside of language arts. I could understand a math or science oriented person trying to sound like a better writer by coming up with whatever that up there is... but lord help us if that's an English teacher.

8/21/2009 1:36:15 PM

BobbyDigital
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^^^^

must be a wolfwebber then.

8/21/2009 1:43:03 PM

wlb420
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"It is the overcoming of fear that one has to take control over to succeed in"


lol.

8/21/2009 2:05:23 PM

titans78
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I, too, take pride in what is the overcoming of fear that one has to take control over to succeed in.

8/21/2009 2:19:48 PM

arog20012001
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what's the old saying?

If you can't do, teach.

Not always true, but certainly true a lot of the time.

8/21/2009 2:23:38 PM

hooksaw
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8/21/2009 2:27:25 PM

bdmazur
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NCSU should keep people like this out. I feel ashamed to share classrooms with people like this.

8/21/2009 5:28:08 PM

Fermat
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"is your student named Sarah Palin?"


hahah way to skewer those Republicans!!

8/21/2009 5:33:59 PM

Spontaneous
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^^ But then we'd lose 50% of our student body.

8/21/2009 5:35:06 PM

Chop
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even as an engineer i try to make sure my communiques at least make sense

8/21/2009 5:39:56 PM

Fermat
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also try to keep in mind that these are the same people who are going to have the nerve to look down on someone and get all upset and accuse people of hating them because they're educated. No insult cuts quite as deep as being called "ignorant" by someone who has no idea who we fought in the Revolutionary war

[Edited on August 21, 2009 at 5:55 PM. Reason : as]

8/21/2009 5:40:42 PM

Spontaneous
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^ The terrorists.

8/21/2009 5:51:27 PM

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