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1000 Reasons Why School is Bad
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How would you make school better?
happypi314 wrote:
Idk when you would need to calculate the trajectory of a dozen paper airplanes
I agree. Math (I love math) and Physics are over sold. Way over sold.
I saw in the movie Kingdom of Heaven. The guy prepares for an attack by shooting a rock from a catapult and then marking the distance it traveled.
Genius. That is real genius.
Oct 2, 2020
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#5
It's bad because they make you go too much. & the day dragged most of the time because I didn't even want to be there nearly every day of my life. Poor little children I feel sorry for them cause they should be out playing more while that young. I do underdstand that there is a need for school but not that bloody much.
Oct 2, 2020
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#7
They force you to study all subjects
Not sure about this, but I think that knowing more than the curriculum is looked down on
Yes, we should obviously have 1 hour of HW per day for the easiest subject in the school, because we clearly need the most review for it. (this one might not apply to all schools)
Oct 2, 2020
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#8
The bullying issue (when i was in 6th grade and i reported physical bullying, I got in trouble for "reporting and creating a fuss over non-important issues")
peeko4 wrote:
play games all day
We're too late. Somebody already got that name. And they spelled "skool" correctly too, correctly Ebonicly and etymologically.
apotosaurus wrote:
The bullying issue (when i was in 6th grade and i reported physical bullying, I got in trouble for "reporting and creating a fuss over non-important issues")
True story.
I know a teacher lady in Japan. One of her student stabbed another. She couldn't believe it happened. That's what happens when you ignore the signs.
I was very pleased with my education. It exposed me to the basics of everything.
One thing I didn't like was the English teacher making me memorize the poem Ozymandias. I don't know if I passed or failed on that one.
#1. The poem is about how things are forgotten. Why would I memorize a poem about how things are forgotten?
#2. That is not correct. Nothing is forgotten. We remember everything. We can read Gilgamesh in clay tablets. We can study genetic history. We can study culture by its genetic history too.
#3. We invented paper, so we don't have to memorize stuff. Duh.
long_quach wrote:
Nothing is forgotten. We remember everything.
The computer you have right now is the sum of all the computers that went before it from the abacus, slide rule, Texas Instrument Light Emitting Diode calculator, TRS-80 (Tandy Radio Shack 1980), Atari, Colleco, Vextrex, Commodore, Nintendo . . . on and on until today.
goldenwriter wrote:
MITOCHONDRIA IS THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL
That's just names and words.
Do you understand the concept?
long_quach wrote:
#2. That is not correct. Nothing is forgotten. We remember everything. We can read Gilgamesh in clay tablets.
The poem was written by a poet (duh). The English teacher is an "English teacher" duh.
The poem is not written by a historian. A historian would never say that greatness of past kings are forgotten.
We can actually decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Movies are very good at reminding us of history. Movies are the real oral tradition.
I remember watching Bloodsport. Van Dam running around the narrow alleys of Hong Kong is very reminiscent of the Maze of the Minotaur.
My English teacher, 4th grade and 10th grade, said when she saw Aliens, it reminded her of Gilgamesh.
Movies is old school storytelling, the way it was done back in the days.
happypi314 wrote:
long_quach wrote:
I was very pleased with my education. It exposed me to the basics of everything.
One thing I didn't like was the English teacher making me memorize the poem Ozymandias. I don't know if I passed or failed on that one.
#1. The poem is about how things are forgotten. Why would I memorize a poem about how things are forgotten?
#2. That is not correct. Nothing is forgotten. We remember everything. We can read Gilgamesh in clay tablets. We can study genetic history. We can study culture by its genetic history too.
#3. We invented paper, so we don't have to memorize stuff. Duh.
but you need to remember where you put the paper
I do. It's called a library.
We should do things in school.
Instead of reading Shakespeare, we should be acting Shakespeare.
Just like Auto-tech. We actually change oil filters, tires, spark plugs, timing belts and stuff.
Like Art class, we actually have to draw, paint, and sculpt stuff.
I know a guy who read Moby Dick while he was serving on a Navy supply ship. He saw the aurora borealis.
That is how you should read Moby Dick.
Art0fArcane wrote:
You should read moby dick by reading the book.
You don't know what it is like to be on a ship, in the ocean, sleeping next to your crew, following the orders of a Captain.
When he read it on a Navy ship, it is like he was there, because he was.
Who is this...and how old are you?
Can't be claiming school is bad if you haven't gone through it and given time to reflect back on it.
My personal opinion is that learning is a wonderful thing and school is mostly good. Sometimes the "busy work" and specifics of what is taught (or avoided) isn't so good. However, does this make school itself bad, or how the content is presented as bad?
If you are going to be critical of school; then I'd point to the grading process as not best (emphasis should be on learning and becoming wiser; not to get an A+ or 4.0).
Wisdom (not school) is a beautiful thing though.