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1954 8th Grade Civics Test -

Could You Pass?2-1-7What more proof do we need that our children are being deliberatelydumbed down than this standard 1954 civics test on the U.S. Constitutionon which Kenny Hignite received a 98 1/2, Excellent, indeed!

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Kieth Norman2-4-7

This priceless and invaluable educational article is a quiet (yet explosive)guardian as to the personal manner (a stark reminder),how criminality withstealth avoids detection by creeping carefully with its invisibility uponthefreedoms and rights thathave eroded in just 52 years. Perhaps weDO needanother blood-letting war so as to appreciate and cherish that which followsthe carnage of death and destruction.

What is it about "men"where invention and creativity (power bydefault)always appear to result in aggressive and calculated hostilebehaviour?

Capitalism is the rush ('surge') to what was at one time a democratic MarketPlace,while its velocity and accelerationis more expectant than the 120 daysof work that the GOPs and the DEMs can muster. So, what is the survivalopportunity of the Constitution?

The US Constitution is not unlike that of a very simple "Project ProcedurePlan"..There are continious milestones that will (not can) carry penalties iftargets are delayed. When the "Project" is complete, its "constitution" is

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exactly 50 years to when yours truly was 11 years old, I would at that pointin time, possibly, would have been able to answer approximately 60% of thequestionnaire...that is, losing 40% in those 50 years on the presumption thatI would have the questions 100% correct ...50 years earlier.

Namely, losing linearly approximately 0.8% per year. This amounts to thedeflection or loss of neuron transmitters ( by TV, Game Boy, new Kennedy"play" game, etc, etc)on the order of 106 years at 0.8% per annum.(calculator please) = 85% (from 1898 to 2004). This indicates that bydeductive reasoning, today, our children are running around their schools and

neighbourhoods quarrying legal "Tommy Guns" with an intelligence level ofan 1898 child that has been confined to an Institution for the 'MentallyChallenged'

Do you get the impression that the last few paragraphs above appearsomewhat confusing in its deductibility and rhetoric...even wrong throughlack of education?:-))...Maybe it should be added to the belowquestionnaire.. "Where is the logic in these paragraphs". Assuming theytaught Integrated Calculus and the Freudian Transference Theory (if then inexistence).. to the 11 year olds..........who knows.

Kieth Norman (Welsh Brit)

Canada

PS - This confirms my suspicions that the Engineers and the Scientistswereintellectually farsuperior at the dawn of the last century.

Article Starts here

Dumbing down: the proof (may have to register)

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5313&issue=2004-11-27

Issue: 27 November 2004

As a service to Spectator readers who still have any doubts about the declinein educational standards, we are printing these exam papers taken by 11-year-olds applying for places to King Edward's School in Birmingham in1898.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR

1. Write out in your best handwriting:-

'O Mary, go and call the cattle home,

And call the cattle home,

And call the cattle home,

Across the sands o' Dee.'

The western wind was wild and dank with foam,

And all alone went she.

The western tide crept up along the sand,

And o'er and o'er the sand,And round and round the sand,

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As far as eye could see.

The rolling mist came down and hid the land -

And never home came she.

2. Parse fully 'And call the cattle home.'

3. Explain the meaning of o' Dee, dank with foam, western tide, round andround the sand, the rolling mist.

4. Write out separately the simple sentences in the last two lines of the above

passage and analyse them.

5. Write out what you consider to be the meaning of the above passage.

GEOGRAPHY

1. On the outline map provided, mark the position of Carlisle, Canterbury,Plymouth, Hull, Gloucester, Swansea, Southampton, Worcester, Leeds,Leicester and Norwich; Morecambe Bay, The Wash, Solent, Menai Straitsand Lyme Bay; St Bees Head, The Naze, Lizard Point; the rivers Trent andSevern; Whernside, the North Downs, and Plinlimmon; and state on aseparate paper what the towns named above are noted for.

2. Where are silver, platinum, tin, wool, wheat, palm oil, furs and cacao gotfrom?

3. Name the conditions upon which the climate of a country depends, andexplain the reason of any one of them.

4. Name the British possessions in America with the chief town in each.Which is the most important?

5. Where are Omdurman, Wai-Hei-Wai, Crete, Santiago, and West Key, andwhat are they noted for?

LATIN

1. Write in columns the nominative singular, genitive plural, gender, andmeaning of:- operibus, principe, imperatori, genere, apro, nivem, vires,frondi, muri.

2. Give the comparative of noxius, acer, male, diu; the superlative of piger,

humilis, fortiter, multum; the English and genitive sing. of solus, uter,quisque.

3. Write these phrases in a column and put opposite to each its Latin: he willgo; he may wish; he had; he had been; he will be heard; and give in acolumn the English of fore, amatum, regendus, monetor.

4. Give in columns the perfect Indic. and active supine of ago, pono, dono,cedo, jungo, claudo.

Mention one example each of verbs followed by the nominative, theaccusative, the genitive, the dative, the ablative.

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5. Translate into Latin:-

1. The general's little son was loved by the soldiers.

2. Let no bodies be buried within this city.

3. Ask Tullius who found the lions.

4. He said that the city had been taken, and, the war being finished, theforces would return.

6. Translate into English:-

Exceptus est imperatoris adventus incredibili honore atque amore: tum

primum enim veniebat ab illo Aegypti bello. Nihil relinquebatur quod adornatum locorum omnium qua iturus erat excogitari posset.

ENGLISH HISTORY

1. What kings of England began to reign in the years 871, 1135, 1216, 1377,1422, 1509, 1625, 1685, 1727, 1830?

2. Give some account of Egbert, William II, Richard III, Robert Blake, LordNelson.

3. State what you know of - Henry II's quarrel with Becket, the taking ofCalais by Edward III, the attempt to make Lady Jane Grey queen, the trialof the Seven bishops, the Gordon riots.

4. What important results followed - the raising of the siege of Orleans, theGunpowder plot, the Scottish rebellion of 1639, the surrender at Yorktown,the battles of Bannockburn, Bosworth, Ethandune, La Hogue, Plassey, andVittoria?

5. How are the following persons connected with English History,- Harold

Hardrada, Saladin, James IV of Scotland, Philip II of Spain, Frederick theElector Palatine?

ARITHMETIC

1. Multiply 642035 by 24506.

2. Add together 132 4s. 1d., 243 7s. 2d., 303 16s 2d., and 1.030 5s.3d.; and divide the sum by 17. (Two answers to be given.)

3. Write out Length Measure, and reduce 217204 inches to miles, &c.

4. Find the G.C.M. of 13621 and 159848.

5. Find, by Practice, the cost of 537 things at 5 3s. 71/2d. each.

6. Subtract 37/16 from 51/4; multiply 63/4 by 5/36; divide 43/8 by 11/6; andfind the value of 21/4 of 12/3 of 13/5.

7. Five horses and 28 sheep cost 126 14s., and 16 sheep cost 22 8s.; findthe total cost of 2 horses and 10 sheep.

8. Subtract 3.25741 from 3.3; multiply 28.436 by 8.245; and divide .86655

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9. Simplify 183/4 - 22/3 11/5 - 31/2 x 4/7.

10. Find the square root of 5.185,440,100.

11. Find the cost of papering the walls of a room 16ft long, 13ft 6in. wide,and 9ft high, with paper 11/2ft wide at 2s. 3d. a piece of 12yds in length.

12. A and B rent a number of fields between them for a year, the rent and

other expenses amounting to 108 17s. 6d. A puts in 2 horses, 5 oxen and10 sheep; and B puts in 4 horses, 1 ox, and 27 sheep. If a horse eats asmuch as 3 sheep and an ox as much as 2 sheep, how much should A and Beach pay?

These papers were kindly sent in by Humphrey Stanbury, whose father tookthe exam, and passed.

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