Re:Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could re...
by klodolph on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:29PM
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> Maybe you think social learning just happens by putting kids together, but that's bullshit.
Not to put too fine a point on it—but I don’t think that very many people who work in education think this way. Especially not the teachers running the classrooms. You leave children to their own devices and you get Lord of the Flies, which was written by William Golding, who based the book on his experiences as a schoolteacher.
My personal advice, as someone who “survived” school, is that intense feelings of anger in reaction to school add too much color. You have to wait and let the logical, non-angry patterns re-emerge in your own mind each time that anger reappears.
Re:Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could re...
by lonelappde on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @10:38PM
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School was bad for you. An alternative would have been good. Sure. But was school bad for everyone?
If you never had a friend all the way through college, you are nowhere the majority.
Maybe you think social learning just happens by putting kids together, but that's bullshit. People like me who'd needed it the most didn't get any of it during school. There also wasn't much in regards to an education. In hindsight, school was a complete waste of my time, that at times negatively affected me because of bullies nobody did anything about. If only beating was still a thing when I went to school, then the teachers maybe would have beaten the shit out of the bullies, so they'd have to first spend a week in the hospital before getting suspended on top of that. Sorry, thinking of school always makes me angry.