#i blame the education system for this

[hananono]

i think a lot of the reason why death of the author is so misunderstood online is that people who have never studied literary criticism are stuck on the idea that theres a "right" way to read a text and dont really get that stories are multifaceted and can have layers of different meanings. stories are frequently about more than one thing at once and can be analyzed in more than one way

[sheila--e]

"the usa education system is so baddd they dont teach us anything..... also i dont wanna learn about africa because its not in my special interest and not my hobby and also africa is not useful anyways :/" I need some of you people to go outside and get ran over so badly

[northlight14]

Speaking as someone who was constantly late to school, I think punishing kids/teens for being late to school is stupid. Like, I get it. When they’re older, they can’t be late to work and stuff and they need to understand that. But majority of kids/teens are getting to school via their parents or someone else driving them or hell the school bus which is also driven by an adult. So when a kid arrives late and gets punished for it, all that’s happening is a child getting punished because the adult responsible for getting them there on time wasn’t successful. That’s not teaching the kid anything, that’s just annoying. Especially when, as a kid I was always ready on time and it was my parents I was waiting on and then in detention I’d be expected to write down a “what will I do better” that didn’t apply to me because I didn’t do anything wrong

I get that sometimes it will be the kids fault but I feel like those cases are few and far between and punishing a kid for the adults in their life is just counterproductive

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

At a certain point blaming the school system for failing to teach you every fact becomes an excuse to absolve yourself from learning on your own time as an adult. Maybe you had bad teachers and curricula, maybe you never did the assigned reading, maybe you were taught propaganda, but it’s okay to start now. It’s okay to learn geography from online games. It’s okay to get entry level books from the library on a subject. It’s okay to explore Wikipedia and other reputable websites as a start. You can learn as an adult. You should continue learning as an adult.

[mokeonn]

The most annoying phenomena on this website is grown adults refusing to educate themselves, despite the abundant recourses at their disposal, because their heads are still stuck in highschool.

[steelycunt]

when people blame their education system for not being able to name any countries outside of europe im like. do you think everyone else had a special Country Naming class your school skipped? do you think there was Country Naming hour and Country Naming exams you were deprived of? do you think thats why everyone but you can. name some countries?

[uncanny-tranny]

By implying that children are too stupid and rude to learn about the world and learn how the world works and how to interact with others, you are casting responsibility away from the people who are responsible for that child's upbringing and placing the blame on the children (who don't have the autonomy given to them to be allowed to decide what they want) who can't help what they do and do not learn, often.

If the children aren't okay, then investigate why before turning to thought-terminating clichés of, "Well, the kids are just stupid and dumb and aren't even worth the effort because they're lazy!"

[hephaestuscrew]

Clara's father being an Earl means that her family outranks Baron DeVries' family in terms of the hierarchy of the nobility. DeVries - a mere Baron, the lowest rank of British nobility - is constantly making references to his family's heritage and history and the responsibilities that come with it. Meanwhile, Clara - the daughter of an Earl (which is two ranks above a Baron) - actively avoids mentioning her aristocratic heritage and is making every effort she can to construct an identity and a life that is separate from that heritage. DeVries' adventuring is a continuation of his family's legacy; Clara's is a rejection of her's.

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

doodle page of some hxh and some tonaegiri (and meeee <33)

close ups under cut

+ the original reference for the cunty togiri pose

[lwh-writing]

Okay, so my college classes started again today and I ended the day with the first lecture of my military history class. Now, I don't usually like military history because it very much is the Dude Bro type of history that I don't jive with. However, I am taking this class because:

Even if it is Dude Bro History, I love history in all forms and want to learn more about it

I'm an engineering student with too many fucking calculus, physics, and electronic classes and my mind needs to think about something other than STEM before it breaks

I fucking LOVE my professor. I had him last semester for a European history class and he was the best. He was very much against what he calls "asshole history." Aka, the type of history that focuses on one, usually white, Christian man who "shaped the course of history" until it shuffled onto the next one. He never mentioned Henry VII or Shakespeare except in passing, but he was the first person to teach me about Alessandra Strozzi, Baruch Spinoza, and Olaudah Equiano. So once I saw he was teaching another class this semester, I was like "Okay, but only because it's you, Awesome Professor."

Anyway, today was the first lecture of Military History taught by Awesome Professor. As should have probably been expected, the class makeup was 80% Dude Bros who need to cover their liberal studies credit. We get in, go over the syllabus, do an icebreaker, and Awesome Professor pulls up a PowerPoint slide with the Battle of Thermopylae and the Battle of Gettysburg side by side.

Awesome Professor: "Can anyone tell me the connection between these two battles?"

Some answers are offered. One Dude Bro goes on a soliloquy about war tactics and drools over the 500 Spartans. Awesome Professor corrects him and says that there were way more Greek factions there than Sparta. More answers are offered. A different Dude Bro does a different soliloquy about Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army. Awesome Professor shoots back about Meade having the superior defensive position. More answers come in. I offer that both the Greeks and the Union soldiers were vastly outnumbered. A few more answers.

Awesome Professor: "Those were all wonderful answers, but unfortunately, you're all wrong. The major connection between these two battles is.... they're the only battles we will ever discuss in this class."

This wonderful, wonderful man then goes on to say that we will NOT be getting into war tactics. We will NOT learn about weaponry. We will NOT be reading quotes from famous generals. We will instead be learning about the cultural impact of war, all sides of every conflict, how militaries and wars affect technology that isn't weapons (preserved foods, medical innovations, etc.), how to recognize war-time, pre-war, and post-war propaganda, and female and nonbinary individuals' experiences during war.

The hundreds of Dude Bros start gaping like fish and sputter about "How can you teach WAR if you don't talk about WAR?". I'm holding back cackles as they slowly realize that they will not be getting spoon-fed the classic Dude Broe history. I genuinely cannot wait to go to my next lecture and count how many people drop the class.

In conclusion: definitely give college history classes a try, even if they aren't your usual first pick. Especially if you know the professor is amazing and knows how to teach about the scope of history rather than shuffling from one asshole to the next.

[thatfrenchacademic]

It's kind of annoying to me that so many Americans think that knowing where a particular European country is is the same as knowing where a specific US state is. Like yeah I can't identify Idaho on a map, but I don't think that's comparable to Americans who can't identify Ukraine on a map???

Hi Anon!

I... will assume this is in response to the "can you name all European countries?" game going around ! And I have exactly two (2) thoughts about it:

1.Devil's advocate argument:

I agree with the general sentiment, BUT [pulls out my nerdy academic glasses], a fun thing I have noticed is that instead of

"knowing where a European state is (for USAmericans) = knowing where a US state is (for Europeans)",

what comes up is more often is:

"NOT knowing where a European state is (for USAmericans) = NOT knowing where a US state is (for Europeans)"

Like, this is the type of argument USAmericans pull out only when they fail to identify European state and we point it out. On the other hand, there is not such a strong expectation that I would ACTUALLY know where Idaho is, in my experience. A few times people have assumed I know where some State is, I point out I don't, and they go 'oh, yeah, it's in North/East/...". Very rarely has an American that I talked to in person truly, actually been in disbelief that I can't place a US State on a map.

"You don't eve know where Idaho is" comes up only once they have been faced with THEIR inability to place a European State. It feels to me like a cognitive (or just rhetorical? idk, not my field) defensive move, more than an actual expectation that I would even be able to name all US State, let alone place them.

2. They are straight up not taught.

I know the instinct is to point it out and laugh at it because the irony of coming from a regime that lords its superiority over all other countries with a population that cannot, actually pinpoint where the other countries are, is STRONG.

But like.

Whose fault is it that Mark, 20, WY, thinks being able to place Utah is much more important than being able to place Albania. Or even that it is equivalent.

I know it's tempting to tell Mark that he is being a fking idiot, especially if Mark is also an asshole. But sometimes, you just need to take a breath, look at someone who is the predictable result of a shitty system, and remember that you gain nothing by confronting them aggressively like it's solely their fault they turned out like that.

Even when they are an asshole.

And just... walk away. Especially if it's online.

[starbirdciraus]

I drew her being a suspicious creature cause I was told doing so would help improve art skills (and I also wanted to see if I was capable of sus)

[a-very-zilly-gooze]

learning to play music as someone who cannot read music and never had a music education is wild. bandmate is like “ooh that’s a c-major chord” and “oh yeah the song changes to a 3/8 time signature here, be careful!” and it’s amazing how little of that makes sense to me.

[lesbiansanemi]

Those posts that are like “Americans don’t know geography and are so stupid and self centered” that are then filled with Americans being like “WELL ACTUALLY ITS BECAUSE THEY DONT TEACH US IN SCHOOL THATS NOT OUR FAULT” make me roll my eyes because like. If you don’t know basic geography because, supposedly, you never ONCE had a class that taught it at all, you should probably get on that. If you can whine on tumblr you can learn where other countries are and a little bit about them

But also as a certified American, I distinctly remember in my freshman year world geography class (a REQUIREMENT class we needed to graduate) there were ppl who dead ass could not even identify the state we actively lived in let alone countries on another continent and also completely avoided actually learning these things so maybe Americans are just fucking stupid and self centered

[solis-angelus]

BABE WAKE UP NEW LOW JUST DROPPED.

source

[hidekomoon]

just voted and the room was empty except for an old man who was so surprised to see a bunch of young adults walk in

please go vote something that isn't right wing or far right