Severely impaired thinking skills
Is there anyone else out there who is absolutely tired of scrolling down to the comments beneath a newspaper story with several pertinent points for debate, only to find a hundred people missing the point or trying to score irrelevant points off each other like children in the playground?
What a depressing spectacle. How debilitating.
I so agree with the former dean of the University of Malta’s Faculty of Education, who last year gave an interview to Times of Malta in which he said that Maltese people are the result of a “tragic cycle” in education which actually trains them not to have critical thinking, so that even those who are born intelligent end up without higher cognitive skills.
I’ve found the link to the online article, but seem to remember that the version in print was longer and more comprehensive. Then look beneath the Times of Malta report on John Bundy’s statement – made under oath – about Silvio ‘Do You Know Who I Am’ Scerri’s malicious behaviour towards Norman Vella, and see what I mean.
Your average Maltese person doesn’t go beyond a sort of low cunning – and this across the entire social spectrum – which is often mistaken for ‘being clever’, coupled with a strange kind of gullibility that I can only see as the inevitable result of being unable to correctly assess and analyse information, situations, events, people’s actions and their intentions, or the implications of all those. This gullibility is not the product of innocence, but of an inability to sort through information.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141002/local/silvio-scerri-ordered-norman-vellas-redeployment-bundy-insists.538174
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130506/local/Our-educational-system-is-sick-says-former-dean.468505
Silvio Scerri is being investigated by the police for wife beating. Anywhere else in the ‘normal’ world, he would be under pressure to step aside from his position of trust in the government, at least until he can clear his name.
In Malta, we carry on as if butter wouldn’t f*cking melt.
Scerri is not being investigated. Charges were dropped and he was never arraigned – same result with John Dalli. Ma tarax dak ta’ taht leli ta, mhux Cikku tal-Haxix.
I await the wife being charged with filing a false report then.
[Daphne – She didn’t file a false report. The photographs of her injuries were uploaded on this website.]
Welcome back, Daphne. You were missed.
Agreed 100%. You were truly missed.
You may say that again
WELCOME BACK DEAR ……. WE MISSED YOU!
Thank God you’re back! Life was getting dull without you.
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Ghostery blocks it all for me. No one needs to read that rubbish.
Welcome back!!! we were drowning in mire here!!!
Hear, hear. I wholeheartedly agree with Professor Borg on the subject. The fundamental problem with our educational system is the focus on memorisation and regurgitation, with the final aim being to obtain a good exam grade and to have a shiny certificate on the wall.
Learning has become optional, independent thinking actively discouraged. How is it that a student can get an A graded paper at the University of Malta without having undertaken independent research, something that would barely scrape a C grade at any good foreign institution?
The rot has gone so deep, that the University of Malta has been driven to reporting the mediocre and the mundane as massive achievements.
I’m very glad you’re back and welcome back! I was missing the only source of information which gives me the information I want to know.
Glad to see you back :-)
Welcome back, missed your blog
Thinking skills?
What about investigative skills by the police?
Why does a bathroom centre on the island of Gozo keep €170,000 in a safe and another €3,000 in change in a desk?
Don’t they use cheques in Gozo?
I find it very strange.
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How very true! And I say it from personal experience. People are just happy to repeat what they hear on TV or read in newspapers without bothering to critically analyse the content as to why, when, how and to whose benefit that news item is being reported.
Allow me to join the chorus and the sentiment in “Welcome Back!!!”
Thank God, the sun of truth and honest reporting has risen again on this island. Thank you very much for coming back, Daphne.
The Maltese certainly are gullible. However, the Euro Parliamentarians certainly take ‘gullible’ to another level. Unless, obviously, they are worse than that.
If you want a depressing spectacle, switch onto teleshopping on the telly and follow the war of the mops and super duper buckets.
There is a link between economic growth and a fickle, refined market. They’re still trying to make sense of the horse, that leg dropped off out of sheer boredom. Clunk.
Now that we’re off catholicism by numbers, it’s up to our TV talking heads to guide us. Hemm bzonn nqajmu hafna awareness. The new convention is made of bathroom ceramics, white uberwagens and a corridor shaped penthouse. stick your head out the window to get ‘partial seaviews’.
They’re still trying to make sense of the horse, that leg dropped off out of sheer boredom. Clunk.
And when Martin Scicluna expects to lead the national think tank does he make me cross.
What with that pubescent Charlton Heston brandishing his ‘fake’ shotgun last week. They were all under 25 ffs.
Daphne for President and Jozef for Prime Minister.
Daphne, it’s great to see you are back. Hope you had some well deserved rest. It’s nice to see how many of your readers miss your interactive website.
Daphne – you were sorely missed ! Welcome back
The only logical reasoning and thinking skills are to be found here. Thank God, was fed up of looking here and finding Mr Peach Face all along.
Malta’s Maltese have had their very own revolution and, like the French, they’re destined to eat bread for as long as its effects last.
Happy with it. Hobz Malti. – Not even that. But would they question? Will they ever notice?
New information will take an age to trickle inwards. The brakes on in the different sectors.
Nothing absolutely new, just delayed modifications. The message translated to suit.
The “me too” mentality edging backwards.
The connector skins oozing a counterfeit money odour.
Information over time controlled by more than language in our case.
As long as the bread’s paid for.
Attaparsi sirna importanti. Fl-ahhar.
Importanti no, impotenti si.
Il-poplu Malti, almenu persentaġġ qawwi, jiena sejjaħtlu mogħża, mhux għax akkademikament huwa illitterat, imma m’għadux jagħraf jiddelibera, jaħseb u joħroġ b’analiżi li tagħti sens lid-deċiżjoni meħuda.
Hemm min hu litterat, imma quddiem sitwazzjoni jibqa’ ċass jew jiddeċiedi ħażin. L-aħħar esperjenzi f’dal-pajjiż juruna dan.
It-tort hu ta’ kif ġieli qed tasal l-edukazzjoni. Nieħdu l-letteratura, li nemmen tant fiha, għax iġġiegħlek taħseb u tqabbel sitwazzjonijiet eżistenzjali jew ipotetika.
Ħafna studenti jingħataw noti biex jistudjaw bl-amment. Dan l-agħar servizz possibbli. L-istudenti jridu jingħataw qafas li fuqu jfasslu huma l-kritika letterarja u mhux jitgħallmuha bħall-paggagalli.
Disgrazzjatament, illum lanqas avukati, jew ħafna minnhom, ma huma kapaċi jagħmlu espożizzjoni, Dan kontra dak li konna mdorrijin qabel, fejn kont togħxa tisma’ uħud mill-avukati li llum ħallewna jew telqu mix-xena politika.
Hemm bżonn naħdmu ħafna fuq kif wieħed janalizza u jagħmel kritika xierqa li biha jikkonvinċi għax jolqot firxa wiesgħa ta’ nies. Il-kelma hija l-arma li biha tikkonvinċi, hija l-għodda tant nieqsa fostna l-Maltin.