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#1 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:58 am
by davidbam
Indeed.
I remember having an argument with someone about attainment levels in Education. They completely refused to accept my throwaway assertion that 50% of pupils were below average.
Their argument wasn't even sophisticated enough to prove me wrong based on the pupils who were precisely ON average.
#2 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 2:18 am
by Alez
Diplomacy
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
#3 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 1:10 am
by Alez
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. - Winston Churchill. ( even today the 'senior' services still have a problem with this
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#4 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:31 am
by Dirk Broer
davidBAM wrote: ↑Thu Dec 20, 2018 10:58 amI remember having an argument with someone about attainment levels in Education. They completely refused to accept my throwaway assertion that 50% of pupils were below average.
By definition you are right -and the opposite is true also : 50% of pupils will be above average.
#5 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 12:03 pm
by davidbam
Dirk Broer wrote: ↑Sun Dec 30, 2018 9:31 am
By definition you are right -and the opposite is true also : 50% of pupils will be above average.
Precisely
I think the individual concerned was probably confusing an average with an exam pass-mark
#6 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:03 pm
by davidbam
What have you done to the cat, Erwin? It looks half-dead --- Mrs Schrödinger
#7 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 1:17 pm
by davidbam
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured -- Mark Twain
#8 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:20 am
by davidbam
There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don’t
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#9 Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 2:24 am
by Alez
“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
Winston S. Churchill