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Schools should teach more practical subjects, they're more useful to loads of people and improve engagement. If they have to reduce subjects like history to do that then they should.
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The mismanagement of housing in the West is an insurmountable failure that cannot be recovered from. American workers can never become competitive, and birth rate decline is a terminal cancer with no cure. The cost of living is artificial but there is no way to reset the suicide switch that is the atrocity of housing mismanagement in most Western countries.
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Moral relativism and the postmodern position of 'nothing is true' (with the accompanying commandment not to think about anything too deeply because, again, no underlying truths exist) are now more than ever at the core of Western thought and the main reason that, despite the fact that the West has and continues to pillage and extract resources around the world thanks to their military superiority (and moral relativism plus a real belief in the racial superiority of Europeans) and probably enjoy some of the materially richer and safer existences ever, people in these countries have to pop pills/drugs/booze or turn the gun on their families and themselves to deal with their existences. The confusion is unbearable, and the lack of stable, productive, morally fulfilling ideology makes one aimless and prone to failure because the world and their understanding of the world are not compatible (can't make good predictions if your starting point is wrong or inexistent!).
I expect disagreement and even harassment on Lemmy/Western online spaces because, well, I know who I'm talking to. But doctors don't waste their time on the healthy! Travel a bit and go to brown places and you'll see what I'm talking about.
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Schools should teach more practical subjects, they're more useful to loads of people and improve engagement. If they have to reduce subjects like history to do that then they should.
History? That's the one you wanna get rid off? Do you just want obedient working bees that easily fall for propaganda and previously used control tactics?
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Forcing students to take notes is counterproductive: I was most successful in those classes in which I wasn’t forced to take notes. It only ever distracted me from listening to the teacher.
Also, for foreign language classes actually being forced to speak the language in class is so valuable. I had one teacher who focused on big cultural projects with very little language instruction and her students (including me) all did pretty poorly.
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Eating meat unnecessarily is immoral.
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History? That's the one you wanna get rid off? Do you just want obedient working bees that easily fall for propaganda and previously used control tactics?
I didn't say get rid of, I said reduce.
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Being feminine often leads to better treatment in life. For example, the way I was treated during my military conscription was very different from how my peers were treated.
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I didn't say get rid of, I said reduce.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Fair enough, but I still think that's the one that shouldn't be reduced. For instance, ICE is a mercenary group for human trafficking working in the interest of for-profit prison shareholders, we have seen this something like this before, right?
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Fair enough, but I still think that's the one that shouldn't be reduced. For instance, ICE is a mercenary group for human trafficking working in the interest of for-profit prison shareholders, we have seen this something like this before, right?
What would you reduce instead?
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Forcing students to take notes is counterproductive: I was most successful in those classes in which I wasn’t forced to take notes. It only ever distracted me from listening to the teacher.
Also, for foreign language classes actually being forced to speak the language in class is so valuable. I had one teacher who focused on big cultural projects with very little language instruction and her students (including me) all did pretty poorly.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Forcing students to take notes is counterproductive: I was most successful in those classes in which I wasn’t forced to takes notes. Taking notes only distracted me from listening to the teacher.
I noticed more and more younger people thinking along that line. As an old fart myself, I will say I find this as worrisome as realizing the same younger generations are reading less and less books, even going to college.
I will also say it's because most of those younger people were never taught the proper technique of reading and note-taking (grossly summarized, note-taking is not about trying to write what's being said by the teacher/speaker, it's about synthesizing the ideas/infos in one's own words, so in reality there is very little writing to be done when listening to lesson or a lecture (good lectures are built around a lot of repetitions of the same information, over and over again, so the speaker can be pretty sure most students did get it).
Not being able to take-notes (and to read books) is a huge loss, for those kids. They should demand their teachers or their parents, or anyone that has learned it already, to teach them the technique but why would they even bother asking since they get no opportunity to realize how much they're missing out by not learning it? I'm sad for them, because they're the one being screwed up (compared to kids their age that do read and know how to take notes).
Also, for foreign language classes actually being forced to speak the language in class is so valuable. I had one teacher who focused on big cultural projects with very little language instruction and her students (including me) all did pretty poorly.
100% this. The only thing that should matter is to speak the language with as much excitement/fun/interest as possible. Even grammar, which is essential, comes second to that.
edit: typos.
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Lemmy is as much of a cesspool as Twitter, but left-tinted.
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Schools should teach more practical subjects, they're more useful to loads of people and improve engagement. If they have to reduce subjects like history to do that then they should.
My late teens and early 20s would have been a lot less destructive if I had received even just a small amount of practical financial advice.
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Aggresive leftifts confirm the right wing bias, creating an escalating dynamic.
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Aggresive leftifts confirm the right wing bias, creating an escalating dynamic.
Yes extremists on both sides can be truly awful. Plus some people are just aggressive, it's nasty to deal with and really aggravated things
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My late teens and early 20s would have been a lot less destructive if I had received even just a small amount of practical financial advice.
Yep, a lot of young people need advice
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I think education should be demanding, so much so that we should all be fine with kids failing at it instead of blaming the school for it. I think grades should only and honestly reflect the level of understanding of each student on whatever they are supposed to be learning, not make them feel good about themselves.
The school should not be there to make the student feel 'good' or 'understood' (that's the family's job). School main purpose should be to make them smarter, which is something that demands practice and efforts, like anything.
Making them smarter means making them better equipped to deal with the real world, that is not a fairy tale kingdom filled with nice people and magical animals that will make them feel welcome and where they lived happily ever after.
Instead of lying to those kids, the school should help them prepare to become an adult person able to face a not-perfect world with a not perfect population, and teach them how to use their effing brains to solve any of the many problems they will face in their life (personal as well as professional)—and for that making them study their lessons, aka memorize stuff (even stupid shit one will never use again) and having to do their stupid homework, and get a failing grade when they don't, is still the best and the simplest way to develop.
Kids that are being told they're amazing perfect little creatures (they're not), and that they should never have to break a sweat in school (they should) are being lied to. Even more sadly for them, compared to those other kids that are still encouraged to face that they're aren't perfect angels and that they should put in the work, every single day, all year long, they're the ones being screwed up. Big.
Feel free to downvote as much as you want.
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Yes extremists on both sides can be truly awful. Plus some people are just aggressive, it's nasty to deal with and really aggravated things
some people are just aggressive
I'm starting to think that sadly they (were forced to?) carry more than they should
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Moral relativism and the postmodern position of 'nothing is true' (with the accompanying commandment not to think about anything too deeply because, again, no underlying truths exist) are now more than ever at the core of Western thought and the main reason that, despite the fact that the West has and continues to pillage and extract resources around the world thanks to their military superiority (and moral relativism plus a real belief in the racial superiority of Europeans) and probably enjoy some of the materially richer and safer existences ever, people in these countries have to pop pills/drugs/booze or turn the gun on their families and themselves to deal with their existences. The confusion is unbearable, and the lack of stable, productive, morally fulfilling ideology makes one aimless and prone to failure because the world and their understanding of the world are not compatible (can't make good predictions if your starting point is wrong or inexistent!).
I expect disagreement and even harassment on Lemmy/Western online spaces because, well, I know who I'm talking to. But doctors don't waste their time on the healthy! Travel a bit and go to brown places and you'll see what I'm talking about.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I wish everyone had the opportunity to search for balance. The pills just extend how long you can carry the discomfort.
