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Originally posted by ztawinthropgirl
What part of "the students are the ones who will be the ones that suffer" do you not understand, Rudey?
To me this is all a part of groupthink that Americans seem to buying into lately. Of course, it could've been happening long before I started paying attention to what Americans thought. Granted, I am only 24.
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Do you think you could figure out what the words "read" and "think" mean and possibly figure a way to do both?
Here I will help you out and provide definitions.
read ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rd)
v. read, (rd) read·ing, reads
v. tr.
To examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed characters, words, or sentences).
To utter or render aloud (written or printed material): read poems to the students.
To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of (written or printed material in a given language or notation): reads Chinese; reads music.
To examine and grasp the meaning of (language in a form other than written or printed characters, words, or sentences): reading Braille; reading sign language.
To examine and grasp the meaning of (a graphic representation): reading a map.
To discern and interpret the nature or significance of through close examination or sensitive observation: The tracker read the trail for signs of game.
To discern or anticipate through examination or observation; descry: “I can read abandonment in a broken door or shattered window” (William H. Gass).
To determine the intent or mood of: can read your mind like a book; a hard person to read.
To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to: read her words differently than I did.
To consider (something written or printed) as having a particular meaning or significance: read the novel as a parable.
To foretell or predict (the future).
To receive or comprehend (a radio message, for example): I read you loud and clear.
To study or make a study of: read history as an undergraduate.
To learn or get knowledge of from something written or printed: read that interest rates would continue to rise.
To proofread.
To have or use as a preferred reading in a particular passage: For change read charge.
To indicate, register, or show: The dial reads 32°.
Computer Science. To obtain (data) from a storage medium, such as a magnetic disk.
Genetics. To decode or translate a sequence of messenger RNA into an amino acid sequence in a polypeptide chain.
v. intr.
To examine and grasp the meaning of printed or written characters, as of words or music.
To speak aloud the words that one is reading: read to the children every night.
To learn by reading: read about the storm in the paper today.
To study.
To have a particular wording: Recite the poem exactly as it reads.
To contain a specific meaning: As the law reads, the defendant is guilty.
To indicate, register, or show a measurement or figure: How does your new watch read?
To have a specified character or quality for the reader: Your poems read well.
think ( P ) Pronunciation Key (thngk)
v. thought, (thôt) think·ing, thinks
v. tr.
To have or formulate in the mind.
To reason about or reflect on; ponder: Think how complex language is. Think the matter through.
To decide by reasoning, reflection, or pondering: thinking what to do.
To judge or regard; look upon: I think it only fair.
To believe; suppose: always thought he was right.
To expect; hope: They thought she'd arrive early.
To intend: They thought they'd take their time.
To call to mind; remember: I can't think what her name was.
To visualize; imagine: Think what a scene it will be at the reunion.
To devise or evolve; invent: thought up a plan to get rich quick.
To bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation: He thought himself into a panic over the impending examination.
To concentrate one's thoughts on: “Think languor” (Diana Vreeland).
v. intr.
To exercise the power of reason, as by conceiving ideas, drawing inferences, and using judgment.
To weigh or consider an idea: They are thinking about moving.
To bring a thought to mind by imagination or invention: No one before had thought of bifocal glasses.
To recall a thought or an image to mind: She thought of her childhood when she saw the movie.
To believe; suppose: He thinks of himself as a wit. It's later than you think.
To have care or consideration: Think first of the ones you love.
To dispose the mind in a given way: Do you think so?
adj. Informal
Requiring much thought to create or assimilate: a think book.
n.
The act or an instance of deliberate or extended thinking; a meditation.
-Rudey
--I am always willing to help out people like you to better themselves
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