#Educational Classes

[lisasdanceandexercise]

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[ivetried27nameswhataboutthis1]

Weems: For our new anti-terror-safety class, you will defuse a fake bomb as a partner exercise. You have to be in sync on this.

Wednesday: Why would anyone want to defuse a bomb?

Enid: Focus, Wednesday. I think I got this. On the count of three, we will each cut our grey wires. One, two-

Wednesday: Wait, wait, wait. Grey wire? I only have green, red and yellow.

Enid: That’s weird. I have light grey, medium grey and dark grey.

Wednesday: Enid, are you colour blind?

Enid: Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.

Wednesday: Is that the reason you are dressed like that?

Enid: What do you mean? We are dressed the same.

Wednesday: Enid, my dear, my heart, my soul, my love. Don’t you ever say such a mean thing to me ever again. That was totally uncalled for.

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

my all-time favorite False Childhood Memory is the time Mister Rogers guest-starred for an episode of The Magic School Bus. I can find no record of this actually happening but I remember it vividly and by gosh mcgolly wouldn't that have been the niftiest beans

[chamomileteaaddict]

Real picture from my educational sciences textbook

(Translation below)

Bubble: Look how well behaved these two are playing.

Boy: Ops, I ran over our nursery teacher Ms. Heinrich.

Girl: And I ran over stupid Tom.

Text under picture: Adults often misinterpret children's play situations.

[politijohn]

Solidarity

[absentdadza]

I think one of the coolest things about learning a new language is when you start not having to translate certain words in your head and you just know the meaning directly literally one of the coolest things I’ve ever experienced

[magpiesbones]

truly the modern au that preserves most directly the Impact of orufrey is:

Olruggio and Qifrey are married, and Oru mostly gets referred to by Qifrey as ‘my husband’ while Qifrey is at work. Qifrey is an untenured physics professor at some out of the way college.

Qifrey does tend to be the sort of professor who’s fun, but wants to pretend that his personal life doesn’t exist while at work. All his students know is that ‘my husband’ does his IT. Slowly by things Qifrey mentions his students learn that ‘my husband’ is also a night owl, also has a physics degree, and likes to cook.

And then Qifrey attends a department social with the man who Won the Nobel prize three years ago for revolutionizing the combustion engine. Olruggio spends the whole night referring to himself as ‘Qifrey’s trophy husband’. He has been on at least one variety show (he hated it).

Qifrey, three glasses of wine in, mentions they got engaged after he was almost thrown out of his phd program on charges of academic dishonesty, but his advisor, Beldaruit (credited with 1/3 of fixing the standard model to incorporate massive neutrinos) came through. The charges were false, and the investigation toppled a fraternity.

Coco, a freshman, studying physics bc she’s obsessed with being an astronaut, doesn’t know who any of these people are because she doesn’t follow engineering news and doesn’t know enough physics to care about massive neutrinos.

[therealdostoevsky]

fuck this shit *turns into an electron*

[muncaster]

henry winter is so endearing to me because he is just learning for the love of learning.  yeah he put together a group for a bacchanal because bacchanals are referenced so often in the stories he loves.  no he’s never heard of the moon landing.

[bookwyrminspiration]

not to be dramatic but what the fuck is homework. you want me to use my time, my limited invaluable time, to do a worksheet? I have short stories to read and poetry to discover and paintings to think about and languages and history to learn and songs to hear for the first time and birds to watch and sunlight to feel on my face this is ridiculous

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

hi! i’m curious, what does “not being self-taught” mean? if i took English classes and extra creative writing classes does that mean i’m not 100% self thought? i was just wondering :0

No, I just meant that I have a Bachelor's in Creative Writing. Which is a weird degree, and not one you see much in the U.S.

But most people who go to school in the modern U.S. get at least ~10 years' education in writing and reading English. Obviously it's going to vary in quality and focus, but modern literacy is off the charts compared to 100 years ago. Which is everybody's win.

I've also been lucky with regard to high school English teachers, to be clear — I used to straight-up turn in fan fiction as homework and get passing grades for it. (I guess from Ms. S's point of view, my 15-page AU of Great Expectations about Magwitch and Mrs. Havisham conspiring to burn her house down, collect the insurance money, throw a lavish wedding, and run off to Australia under fake names.... at least proved I'd read Great Expectations? Which is more than most of my class could say?)

Most valuable of all: from 1st to 4th grade, I had teachers who'd assign the class to "write a page a day." What about? Didn't matter. Some people wrote diary entries, some people wrote lists of things they could see, some people (me) wrote about scientists saving the Titanic passengers through trying to turn them into fish but accidentally creating horrible mer-mutants instead. We weren't graded on grammar, or content, or handwriting, or whether trout-people could survive the North Atlantic; we were just graded on having written. That exercise (no offense to my professors) was better for my literacy than any college class on Poetics Theory or Advanced Essay could ever be.

[girlfromenglishclass]

People who complain that school doesn't teach them anything they can use in real life often have severe misconceptions about what real life is. Chiefly, that they're already in it.

Yes, we could teach you how to fill out a tax form or pay bills, but I promise these things are actually quite unchallenging. Like, I could teach you, but it'd take like 20 minutes; you'll be fine.

The biggest problem is that these complaints make "real life" seem to just be 1. acquire job 2. know how to do job. And that's important, but it's a small fraction of life. If all my students have is a job and the ability to pay bills, then I haven't done justice to their education.

School also teaches you how to care about things. How to know when you must care. What to do with that care. You need to be equipped with critical thinking skills to decide what should be deconstructed, what you really believe and don't believe instead of what you're told. You need to know the history of these things to make informed choices. And yes, even math, even when they put letters in it, is giving you a mind. It's working and wiring your logical reasoning that will guide you.

The main thing people who make this complaint don't understand is that when we talk about children as the "next generation, the future" it's literal. We won't be here forever! We will die! And then it's YOU who is in charge! You decide!

You decide how society changes. You decide what stays and what gets left behind of popular ideology. So, you go to school, and we teach you everything we know. Yes, even that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and lines from Shakespeare's sonnets and what year the civil war happened. Because it matters.

It matters because we know it! It's knowledge! And if we don't teach it, it dies, like we will, so now it's yours. Decide what you teach the next ones. And if that's just how to get a job and pay taxes, well, we did our best.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

less "people should have to pass a class before having children" and more "society should be providing free parenting classes to people who want to have kids, and offering meaningful incentives to get expectant parents to sign up."

[politijohn]

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