OT? Dumbing down of society

On Feb 17, 3:12 pm, wrote:
On Feb 15, 8:33 pm, "Private" wrote:

There has been a lot of discussion here lately regarding the dumbing down of
society in regards to stalls and flight training and piloting in general,
this author shares many of the same feelings.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/bo...5087&em=&en=98...

Happy landings,

Related to rote learning. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning

Many pilots (way too many) commit facts to memory to get past
the flight and written exams. It's rote learning, without the
understanding necessary to be safe. Exams tend to encourage that sort
of thing.

Dan

Well yeah... See the Stall thread about all the Sunday Blue sky
cowboys who crap their satin panties when they get some buffet let
alone a full stall.

Our society is breeding a generation of panty waisted sissy marys who
quake at the thought pushing the envelope. Without anti lock brakes
and GPS they couldn't find their collective arses to wipe off the
dingle berries. Thank God they'll die politically correct with a full
load of estrogen coursing through their manly 12" arms and smooth
satiny 12" pencil necks.