Random Facts About George Washington

Editorial: What's in a grade?

College scores can be a great indicator of skill right out of college. They're helpful for getting into graduate school and ascending the ivory tower, and they indicate a student's proficiency in each subject. When evaluating a 61-year-old potential presidential candidate low grades are both meaningless and not uncommon.

George W. Bush joked about being a C student at Yale with a four-year average of 77. The "complex" John Kerry had a four-year average of 76 also at Yale. While Rick Perry, the face of the Texas economy, received a D in principles of economics, Al Gore, the face of global warming, received a D in Natural Sciences his sophomore year and a C-plus in natural sciences his senior year at Harvard. The Washington Post said in 2000, "[Gore's] generally middling college grades at Harvard in fact bear a close resemblance to the corresponding Yale marks of his presidential opponent, George W.

The point isn't to deride Bush, Kerry, Gore or Perry, but that college transcripts are only a snapshot of a person's life. Transcripts may give you a glimpse of Perry the student but they tell little about Governor Perry.

Drawing conclusions from information almost four decades old is a fool's errand.

It would be just as absurd to assess college students by when they began walking.

It would be nonsensical to observe that Rick Perry earned a D in economics as a democrat while as a Republican governor, Texas has created 37 percent of all-net new jobs in America since the recovery began according to Richard Fisher of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

While we're using old information to draw ridiculous conclusions it should be obvious that Perry is smarter and more driven than the college dropout Bill Gates.

The perversion of Perry's 39-year-old transcript is a manifestation of ivory-tower elitism at its worst.

This pervasive dogma tells us that our measured academic achievement during a four-year period is more important than all our life lessons.

It's absurd considering real world employers rarely care about college grades after a graduate's first job.

In the real world, a college degree quickly becomes nothing more than a checkmark among more important items like work history and special skills.

This dogma would have us believe Rick Perry's D in Shakespeare is more relevant than a record consisting of years as a state legislator, agriculture commissioner, lieutenant governor, and almost a decade as governor.

George Washington Facts | Random Facts Of The Day

George Washington was America’s first president and is known for being one of the greatest presidents of all time.  George Washington was a military genius who would end up leading our country to victory.  Many people have heard some of the funniest George Washington facts, which are actually myths such as when that George Washington chopped down a cherry tree as a boy, that he wore teeth made of wood and that he once threw a silver dollar across the Potomac.  Many of us have heard stories of George Washington growing up but many of us have no clue if they are real or not.  I will discuss some of the best George Washington facts and help people to really understand who he was. George Washington had a very large family while growing up.  George Washington had two half brothers and a half sister from his fathers first marriage.  He also had three brothers, one sister and another sister who died in infancy.  Many people are surprised to find out that George Washington was sickly while growing up.  He was constantly getting sick with many different illnesses such as small pox, which left permanent scarring on his face.  He was also sick from things such as malaria, pleurisy and dysentery. George Washington’s father died when he was eleven years old and he ended up leaving everything to George’s two older brothers.  George ended up helping his mother on the plantation since he was her oldest son and this is where George ended up learning how to farm and run a plantation.  George worked hard and went to school until he was fifteen years old and he ended his education. There are many myths about George Washington and one of the biggest myths are the fact that his false teeth were made of wood.  George Washington did have false teeth but the fact is that his false teeth were more then likely made of metal or ivory.  According to many historians George Washington had false teeth made of metal, a cows tooth and hippopotamus ivory. George Washington had false teeth at a young age and by his second inaugural address he only had one real tooth left.  Dentistry back in the seventeen hundreds was basically non-existent and therefore the dentures that George Washington had in were extremely painful and many said he only wore them when he had to give a speech.  Therefore many of George Washington’s public appearances were cut very short and he generally would not speak very long.

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