Saturday, May 23, 2009

Received Knowledge


How could anyone forget Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 and her UNBELIEVABLE response to the question why she thought 1/5 of Americans are unable to locate the USA on a world map. Her answer, on live TV mind you:

“I personally believe that, U.S. Americans are unable to do so, because some… people out there in our nation that don’t have maps, and I believe that our education, like such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should… our education over here in the U.S., should help the U.S., er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future.., for our children...”

WHAT!? Are you kidding me?! Don’t people get paid big money to train these women on how to answer questions and educate them on worldly events? Clearly whoever Miss South Carolina’s interview coach is didn’t do her job. I am sure Miss Teen South Carolina worked tirelessly to listen to her coach and repeat back directly the “correct” or “appropriate” answer to possible interview questions. Miss South Carolina shouldn’t have just banked on memorize information or listening to her authoritative pageant coach for the interview portion of the competition. Clearly, Miss Teen South Carolina lacks a whole lot of self-confidence; she just receives and reproduces the knowledge, rather than creating it herself. Miss South Carolina shouldn’t have spent all of her time just listening to her pageant coach and being in awe of what she thought was intelligent information being presented to her. Poor girl!

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