Thank you for this very clear explanation. I have been saying for a long time that equity is a way of dumbing down hard working gifted children so that less talented ones ( for whatever reason )achieve acceptable results.Your explanation is more eloquent.
I live in the UK,( born 1950) I home schooled a 5 year old during Covid,I was so shocked at the English and Maths Curriculum.
English: Every pupil had to learn Alien( non existant )words, realising it was not helping any of the pupils I investigated ,WHY.
The reason stated was that pupils who had supportive parents,couldn't have known the words, and couldn’t have advantages, the poor disadvantaged ones would be helped.Completely illogical.
Actually I believe it is to make things more complicated for all of them.
Phonics ,with Dashes and connecting joining loops also made English more difficult.
My little friend Zoe ,was much improved with funny rhythms like” the fat cat sat on the mat “.
Next,Maths: No longer was she supposed to place 10( when adding single digits) as a 1 ,under the 10’s column.It is now 10 dots!!! So confusing counting them all…..
At that time I was completely unaware of Globalists plans ,and Pharma harms.I trusted the UK Gov.
8 vaccines ( Pneumonia Shingles Tetanus 2flu 3 mRNA injectables) in 20/21…Vaccine Damaged ,Pfizer Booster..I will never have another one.Lucky to be alive now.
Fast forward to now (24) I have had to study every day for 6 hrs,to scrap my previous 71 years of learning ( brainwashing) History,Biology,Politics,Psychology, Medicine,Food Nutrition etc.
We have a serious battle in progress,Thank you for being a warrior.
Great analysis of this critically important issue. Yes, life is not fair and any proposal to employ government to ensure equal outcomes is an open invitation to tyranny and despotism. The best government can do is ensure that laws are applied equally and fairly to both rich and poor, to the powerful and the common man. While this principle was once was a hallmark of our democracy, this practice appears to be falling into disuse. I find that for most people, life's outcome is the cumulative impact of the decisions one makes based on the values that one possesses. Asking the government to make up for a lifetime of bad choices and immoral actions based on indolence and/or corrupt values and thus ensuring "equal outcomes" is absurd.
Great article, John! DEI, CRT, and woke-ism are Marxist and anti-American to the core. Those who push these ideologies seek to destroy the US Constitution and are thus the real domestic terrorists in America today. They are politically shielded by the Democrat Party, too, as many elected Democrats publicly support all three interrelated ideologies. And they all need to be dealt with harshly.
First, I have no doubt that all learning in the human world derives from trial and error. We observe, adapt, innovate and teach. In a sense we all teach ourselves by observing our surroundings. We then find a way to cope with what we observe i.e. adapt. We then invent tools and build things to change our surroundings, i.e. innovate. And lastly we share with each other the results of these earlier three processes to allow others to learn, i.e. teach.
Let's inject a brief reference to religion here. I read once that before Christ's time there was the expression: 'Don't do anything that you wouldn't want done to you.' It sounds similar to Christian teaching but it has the opposite effect. It recognizes a regressive world. It demands aversion to risk. It promotes an insular view of the life.
The Christian religion on the other hand directs us "to do unto others as we would have them do unto us." That phrase constitutes the most artful proscription against hypocrisy. In a way, it advocates learning and teaching by doing. In French, notably, the word ‘apprendre’ means both to learn and to teach. Christ's phrase promotes a world where progress has value. And for progress to succeed, Christ admonishes us to forgive others 70 x 7 times, as we are all recognizably flawed and miserably imperfect. This forgiveness is necessary because, in a very real way, Jesus has said 'take the risk to do good', and "accept the risk" that others may try to do good too, and in doing so, you may both fail horribly, harming each other along the way.
Without forgiveness as a cultural and religious safety net, few will take the risk of learning by doing. So forgiveness holds a special place for the risk takers of the World. Progress thrives upon calculated and serendipitous risk taking, but only in the context of redemption by forgiveness, when we err. In other words 'trial and error" are forgivable. Without embracing forgiveness for failure during 'trial and error', few will embrace the risk inherent in the verbs “observe, adapt, innovate and teach”. Progress becomes problematical instead of inevitable.
Within this context then, equality of opportunity means that everyone who embraces the values espoused by Christ can freely ‘try to do good’ and will be forgiven in failure. One may therefore try, try again without guilt or shame. One’s free will and one’s dedication to teach oneself will drive his success or failure. There will never be a guaranty of the outcome.
Regarding equity, the bible in the tenth commandment actually prohibits the pursuit of equal outcomes. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, nor thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s”. Covet means “to inordinately desire, especially for something belonging to another person”. Can there be any more accurate definition of ‘equity’ than that?
A problem arises because no one will ever value the outcome of equity the same. Equity as measured by equal outcomes cannot be achieved because equity by definition is idiosyncratic. Each person in this world has a different history and a different destiny (even twins), no outcome can be the same. As employed by Critical Race Theory and in reparations, equity has no meaning other than to create an expectation that cannot be met, and which in the eyes of its proponents was never meant to be met. Its sole purpose is to sow the seeds of unjustified resentment and infectious greed.
Equal opportunity or equity - which one is progress?
"I cannot teach you anything, I can only make you think." Socrates.
Thank you for this very clear explanation. I have been saying for a long time that equity is a way of dumbing down hard working gifted children so that less talented ones ( for whatever reason )achieve acceptable results.Your explanation is more eloquent.
I live in the UK,( born 1950) I home schooled a 5 year old during Covid,I was so shocked at the English and Maths Curriculum.
English: Every pupil had to learn Alien( non existant )words, realising it was not helping any of the pupils I investigated ,WHY.
The reason stated was that pupils who had supportive parents,couldn't have known the words, and couldn’t have advantages, the poor disadvantaged ones would be helped.Completely illogical.
Actually I believe it is to make things more complicated for all of them.
Phonics ,with Dashes and connecting joining loops also made English more difficult.
My little friend Zoe ,was much improved with funny rhythms like” the fat cat sat on the mat “.
Next,Maths: No longer was she supposed to place 10( when adding single digits) as a 1 ,under the 10’s column.It is now 10 dots!!! So confusing counting them all…..
At that time I was completely unaware of Globalists plans ,and Pharma harms.I trusted the UK Gov.
8 vaccines ( Pneumonia Shingles Tetanus 2flu 3 mRNA injectables) in 20/21…Vaccine Damaged ,Pfizer Booster..I will never have another one.Lucky to be alive now.
Fast forward to now (24) I have had to study every day for 6 hrs,to scrap my previous 71 years of learning ( brainwashing) History,Biology,Politics,Psychology, Medicine,Food Nutrition etc.
We have a serious battle in progress,Thank you for being a warrior.
Great analysis of this critically important issue. Yes, life is not fair and any proposal to employ government to ensure equal outcomes is an open invitation to tyranny and despotism. The best government can do is ensure that laws are applied equally and fairly to both rich and poor, to the powerful and the common man. While this principle was once was a hallmark of our democracy, this practice appears to be falling into disuse. I find that for most people, life's outcome is the cumulative impact of the decisions one makes based on the values that one possesses. Asking the government to make up for a lifetime of bad choices and immoral actions based on indolence and/or corrupt values and thus ensuring "equal outcomes" is absurd.
TY for a succinct and insightful summary.
Great article, John! DEI, CRT, and woke-ism are Marxist and anti-American to the core. Those who push these ideologies seek to destroy the US Constitution and are thus the real domestic terrorists in America today. They are politically shielded by the Democrat Party, too, as many elected Democrats publicly support all three interrelated ideologies. And they all need to be dealt with harshly.
First, I have no doubt that all learning in the human world derives from trial and error. We observe, adapt, innovate and teach. In a sense we all teach ourselves by observing our surroundings. We then find a way to cope with what we observe i.e. adapt. We then invent tools and build things to change our surroundings, i.e. innovate. And lastly we share with each other the results of these earlier three processes to allow others to learn, i.e. teach.
Let's inject a brief reference to religion here. I read once that before Christ's time there was the expression: 'Don't do anything that you wouldn't want done to you.' It sounds similar to Christian teaching but it has the opposite effect. It recognizes a regressive world. It demands aversion to risk. It promotes an insular view of the life.
The Christian religion on the other hand directs us "to do unto others as we would have them do unto us." That phrase constitutes the most artful proscription against hypocrisy. In a way, it advocates learning and teaching by doing. In French, notably, the word ‘apprendre’ means both to learn and to teach. Christ's phrase promotes a world where progress has value. And for progress to succeed, Christ admonishes us to forgive others 70 x 7 times, as we are all recognizably flawed and miserably imperfect. This forgiveness is necessary because, in a very real way, Jesus has said 'take the risk to do good', and "accept the risk" that others may try to do good too, and in doing so, you may both fail horribly, harming each other along the way.
Without forgiveness as a cultural and religious safety net, few will take the risk of learning by doing. So forgiveness holds a special place for the risk takers of the World. Progress thrives upon calculated and serendipitous risk taking, but only in the context of redemption by forgiveness, when we err. In other words 'trial and error" are forgivable. Without embracing forgiveness for failure during 'trial and error', few will embrace the risk inherent in the verbs “observe, adapt, innovate and teach”. Progress becomes problematical instead of inevitable.
Within this context then, equality of opportunity means that everyone who embraces the values espoused by Christ can freely ‘try to do good’ and will be forgiven in failure. One may therefore try, try again without guilt or shame. One’s free will and one’s dedication to teach oneself will drive his success or failure. There will never be a guaranty of the outcome.
Regarding equity, the bible in the tenth commandment actually prohibits the pursuit of equal outcomes. “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, nor thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s”. Covet means “to inordinately desire, especially for something belonging to another person”. Can there be any more accurate definition of ‘equity’ than that?
A problem arises because no one will ever value the outcome of equity the same. Equity as measured by equal outcomes cannot be achieved because equity by definition is idiosyncratic. Each person in this world has a different history and a different destiny (even twins), no outcome can be the same. As employed by Critical Race Theory and in reparations, equity has no meaning other than to create an expectation that cannot be met, and which in the eyes of its proponents was never meant to be met. Its sole purpose is to sow the seeds of unjustified resentment and infectious greed.
Equal opportunity or equity - which one is progress?
"I cannot teach you anything, I can only make you think." Socrates.
Excellent
It is time to unify over our biggest problem: Corruption.
It’s the one thing the people who are doing the corrupting fear most:
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