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bozotoks · 1 year

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penrose42 · 3 months

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Real talk this is fucking insane. I know it goes without saying at this point but goddamn does our education system need an overhaul and academic dishonesty is just the tip of the fucking iceberg. The sad thing is is that people, not just kids, will put in the effort to do things that they like and find interesting. Our brains are hard wired to close in on subjects that we genuinely have interest in and we will do things regarding those subjects and utilize that knowledge fullheartedly. To say that some if not most subjects in academia can be full on dropped should not be news to some, because let's be honest with ourselves most courses offer knowledge that only applies to specific career goals.

Math courses past basic algebra have no real world application for most people unless you want to be an engineer or go into the sciences.

Literature offers nothing outside to writers and critics. If anything forcing kids to read will make them adults who resent reading instead of inspiring people to actually read. I know media literacy isn't the best but I can tell you that making me read Hamlet has done very little outside of making me chuckle at that Adventure Time episode after reading it 10 years ago.

Now I will concede that subjects like history and the basic sciences are absolutely a necessity, and I don't feel like I need to justify that standpoint, especially anatomy because goddamn the gross ignorance shown towards human anatomy online is just appalling. However our approach to these subjects (history in particular for US students) needs serious review and revision.

The amount of times we went over just US history in public school is fucking insane. I'm willing to bet most people in the US didn't know that the Portuguese Navy was the most powerful military force in the world for a good majority of human history, or that the British Empire were the largest drug traffickers in the world, or Hell even the East India Trade Company was legitimately a thing. Seriously we need to get our head out of our own asses with History because fuck me you can only go over the same shit so many times.

(Not to say that we, at least in my school district, didn't go over some world history, but most of it was in regards to WWII. We also went over the Rwanda conflict for... reasons? in middle school but for the life of me I can't recall why? Not to say that it wasn't an important topic but genuinely why did we go over just Rwanda? Was it a BHM thing? I also remember talking about Nelson Mandela, so was it just BHM?)

Of course most US history courses end around the 60's because why update the curriculum with recent history like how Nixon fucked us over economically. And some wonder why we vote celebrities into office even though it was a demonstrably bad idea.

Now I know that the same argument for math can be made for science but I'm going to argue tooth and nail that a basic understanding of science is way the fuck more important than any understanding of math for the average person. A layman's comprehension of anatomy will always trump a full understanding of quadratics and I would love to hear any and all opposition.

TL:DR Our education system, at least in the US, is fucked and we need to work our asses on that. Now.

#academia #school #college #thoughts

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weaver-z · 4 years

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I rarely have a visceral reaction to a TikTok but this one... this one got me

#tiktok #larrylexicon #cursed #dogs

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larrylexicon · 4 years

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Always have a backup plan.

#larrylexicon #larry lexicon #vocabbowl #vocab #vocabulary #puppies

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seaglassdinosaur · 4 years

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I am absolutely loving the Larry Lexicon tiktok series. The generator, the vocabbowl, the grumpometer, Buck the mascot, the gingerbread person. It is always wild and so entertaining.

#larry lexicon #larrylexicon #my post #the lexicon saga

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incorrect-hs-quotes · 4 years

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mindfang: Hey, kids, listen up, I just wanna take a second to address this, 8ecause I know there have 8een- welp, some compl8nts with the pronoun issues, and I just want you guys to know, that I’m working on it, I respect you guys and your lifestyle choices, and in fact? Last weekend, I even went to the community’s mand8ted “Gender8read Man” training-

vriska: It’s a gender8read person!

mindfang: WH8TEVER!!!!!!!! WHATEVER, I went to the TR8INING, OK8Y???????? All I’m asking in return from you two is to stop calling me a 8oomer! I’M NOT A 8A8Y 8OOMER, YOU GUYS! I’m not a 8oomer!!!!!!!!

vriska and aranea in perfect unison: Okay, 8oomer.

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beardedmrbean · 2 years

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