Dunce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A dunce is a person incapable of learning. The word is derived from the name of the great Scholastic theologian and philosopher John Duns Scotus, whose works on logic, theology and philosophy were a...
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It all started when someone asked why Kate Bush was wearing a "D" on a cone-shaped hat in her "Sat In Your Lap" video and has now turned into my quest to learn the origin of the dunce cap and why it was used in classrooms.
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www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1793/whats-the-origin...
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1793/whats-the-origin-of-the-dunce-cap
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As it turns out, the dunce cap comes from a 13th-century philosopher named John Duns Scotus, who, not surpisingly, was born in Duns, Scotland. ... So the logic behind the dunce cap is that it makes slow pupils learn better, but it was later used to humiliate the wearer and motivate students to try harder.
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; The media is a for profit business. Gone are the days of publishers who hoped to break even, and their ownership was due to a passion for civic affairs. Today, a media group might own a baseball team, a nuclear weapons research lab, or sell a wide variety of It is not their job to make us care. ... We need a foundation.
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newpairodimes.blogspot.com/2007/06/dunce-cap-nation.htm...
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by Jonathan Zasloff ... So now John McCain is attacking Barack Obama for not offering enough policy specifics in his campaign. As Jonathan Chait mentions, this is laughable given that McCain himself admits that he knows nothing about economic policy and that his entire campaign ... Perhaps the snarkier response is simply to say,
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5 Could this be the origin of the old saying "Put your thinking cap on? - anon39118 4 Teasing and bullying need to be stopped in schools. - anon30842 3 I wasn't the greatest student growing up in the '60s. It was mostly the result of ...
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-dunce-cap.htm
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