“Be articulate. Because that’s the most dangerous thing you can do” - JP
My School Just Banned Chess.com
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I think language and literature are the most important subjects. They form the basis of understanding for all the rest, and for life.
“Be articulate. Because that’s the most dangerous thing you can do” - JP
“Be articulate. Because that’s the most dangerous thing you can do” - JP
Writing yes, so you know how to persuade people in important subjects, but literature has got to be the biggest waste of time on the planet.
EndgameEnthusiast2357 skrev:
kezzerdrix wrote:
Play after school. The teachers are trying to do their jobs by teaching you stuff.
Chess is more useful than 97% of stuff taught in school. I'm saying this as a 23 year old college graduate. With the exception of math and science, school is mostly pointless. Trade school will earn you higher salaries than a college degree.
Different countries teach different things it's foolish to assume the rest of the world has the same education system as the US. (I have never heard something good about the US education system. Might just be lazy teenagers complaining but idk)
Aug 23, 2023
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My school also banned chess.com. Because almost everybody there is cheating.
long_quach wrote:
EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:
but literature has got to be the biggest waste of time on the planet.
Literature is important.
Example: Romeo and Juliet
Learn why people kill each other. So you don't get caught in it.
It is inappropriate to read it to kids in school, the girl was 13, that makes the guy a (can't say here will get automuted). Extremely inappropriate content.
Doesn't matter, it is inappropriate to expose s*x u a l content like that to high schoolers, especially when it would be illegal in real life.
Aug 23, 2023
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If your school got chess, why don't they use chess.com for educational purposes?
Different times for people doing that stuff at younger ages in general, but Romeo was 17, right? That's creepy.
Social studies in general is a pretty pointless subject to teach in high school unless it's actual practical stuff about the laws of other countries or how the US government/economy works. Who cares what civilizations existed in 3000 or 4000 BC? Boring..
long_quach wrote:
EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:
Different times for people doing that stuff at younger ages in general, but Romeo was 17, right? That's creepy.
What is the life expectancy then compared to now?
You do the math.
If you can do the math.
That makes it even worse, Romeo was essentially a middleaged man and Juliet was a little kid. Eewww.
Trfulton25 wrote:
My school just banned chess.com because kids were playing it to often in class. The kids are getting smarter on chess.com and learning more than they are at the school.
Regardless of how you twist it, there's a huge difference in brain development between 13 and 17+. People in that time period didn't just drop dead at 30 for no reason either. Stop trying to defend that kind of thing.
So teach real world stuff, no one duels to the death anymore over that, so no point. Teach neuroscience.
Understand and heal the brain, relieve pain, treat mental illness, reverse blindness/deafness/paralysis, enhance memory. Neuroscience is the most cutting edge field right now, and even more useful than these pointless moon missions they're wasting time on.
I don't need some pointless ancient story to tell me that marriage and s * x are bad. Just look at modern society. That's what causes the most problems. Neuroscience would help prevent and cure the mental diseases that cause people to use those guns in the first place. Generation Z has this wisdom already, we don't need dumb fairy tales from the 1300s to state the obvious.
Aug 23, 2023
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EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:
long_quach wrote:
EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:
Different times for people doing that stuff at younger ages in general, but Romeo was 17, right? That's creepy.
What is the life expectancy then compared to now?
You do the math.
If you can do the math.
That makes it even worse, Romeo was essentially a middleaged man and Juliet was a little kid. Eewww.
If you learned some history, you would realize that was more common then.
And that makes it justifiable?
My school just banned chess.com because kids were playing it to often in class. The kids are getting smarter on chess.com and learning more than they are at the school.
Chess.com was the reason I stopped focusing on school so much, chess was more important and valuable to me. These kids know best lol