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Many of us remember school as a purgatory. Our memories relating to sitting in the classroom are often tainted with feelings of boredom, annoyance, and thinking that most of this information is useless. Clearly, those who come up with the school curriculum include the basic information every adult should know. Yet, somehow, we find learning through the Internet a lot more satisfying.
So let's tackle the question "Why is school so useless?", shall we? There is a sound reason many of us dislike learning at school. Maria Sanchez writes for Save Our Schools March: "School often focuses too much on rote memorization and standardized tests rather than imparting useful life skills and knowledge." Students feel unengaged with the curriculum because it doesn't relate to their realities.
A frequent criticism of the education system is that the things we teach children in school are impractical. Why do we need all that math if we're going to have a calculator in our pocket at all times anyway? And so what if the mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell? We can't really apply it anywhere in our daily lives, so how does knowing it benefit us (given that we're not working in a lab of some sort)?
As a child of a teacher and someone who's dabbled in teaching kids for a few months, I have nothing but respect for teachers. I was always a stickler for the rules growing up and, most times, the teacher's favorite. (Parental influence, wink, wink.) So I nodded and agreed with my peers when they would snicker and sneer while learning the Pythagorean theorem, but I still went ahead and learned it.
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I always felt like, maybe, it's not the theorem itself that is useful, but the process. Maybe school is about learning how to pick up and understand information, not about the information itself. And it's partially true. School is sometimes not about the things we memorize but about the new neural pathways we train our brains to create while doing so.
That is both a very sweet sentiment and it also makes it more educational, seeing the similarities and differences between a human skeleton and a dog one.
We The Differents invites us to think about the learning process more like growing a tree. In primary school, we learn the basics of life, things like reading and writing. Then, in high school, we start to grow the branches of the tree. We start building skills that we'll need throughout life. These include: problem-solving, storing and remembering information, new ways of thinking, and learning how to learn.
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So, it's not that big of a deal if we forget how to do ratios. The neural pathways we built will still be there and help us in the future to get jobs and adapt to life. Even if that job will never include mathematics, the brain will have stored knowledge for us to know that numbers are important. When the time comes to make important life decisions, such as buying a car or moving out on your own, the neural pathways that you use to learn and problem-solve will come in handy.
One Chinese girl was found unconscious on roadside. Authority failed to find her family so a local family adopted her. Went to school, got married etc. A new police noticed that the dumplings she made had a very peculiar shape. The police asked netizens for help and was able to identify the area where this type of dumplings was from. The woman finally got to meet her family using DNA test.
It's the principle idea behind Daniel T. Willingham's book Why Don't Students Like School? He's a researcher of cognitive science behind learning, and he claims that knowledge is exponential. Basically, the more we learn, the easier it is to learn new things.
I think Norway and Finland has something similar if not the same as allemansrätten?
What about people who post about people who post about relationships?
It somewhat negates Einstein’s idea that imagination is more important than knowledge – knowledge is what allows us to imagine. To teach someone 'how' to think, we must first teach them a considerable amount of 'what' to think. We must have some background knowledge so we can learn better.
To all the people talking about how they should have used Wood or something else, this was the tundra, where no wood was growing.
There's always a kind of chivalry in the Air Forces - Manfred von Richthofen's body for example was also treated with respect after he got shot down. A british pilot that had a faulty chute and only survived by being slowed down by trees had a few drink with the germans on the nearby base as that impressed them. And of course the stories about Charlie Brown / Franz Stigler or Ernst Udet / Georges Guynemer
However, that's not to say that the current education system in most Western countries is perfect. The curriculum is still abstract and impractical, focuses more on memorization than understanding, and doesn't consider different learning styles.
That's why many experts advocate for more interactive, hands-on learning. They say that projects, experiments, and group discussions allow the students to apply their knowledge in practical ways.
Izzy and his partner Moe used to go into speakeasies and announce "We're Prohibition agents! So serve us a drink." Everyone would just laugh. When Izzy and Moe returned the next day with search and arrest warrants, the laughter died down a bit.
Mathematics can be more interesting, too! When the teacher connects the material to the real world, students become more engaged. For example, they can teach math through real-life scenarios, such as calculating discounts or budgeting.
Serves them right for not making chargers commodity items and then gouging people for Apple-specific chargers
It's also important to consider learning styles. The four predominant ones are: auditory, visual, kinaesthetic, and read/write. Some students really learn better by taking notes and reading textbooks. These are most often well-organized people. But the reality is that others struggle to take in information without visual aids and hands-on activities.
Thank Ronald Reagan for signing into law the legislation that granted HOAs their wide sweeping unchecked power.
Load More Replies...Is that like a murder of crows or a gaggle of geese? "An HOA of Karen's"?
Load More Replies...What the hell? They had to know the home owner was deployed. HOA is just a bunch of nosey busy bodies with nothing better to do.
Given the resale price, this was obviously driven by the opportunity to steal a house "legally".
Load More Replies...It is illegal to forclose on a servicemember while they are deployed, same with repo their car, etc. They also must give proper time after deployment to solve the issue. Violation carries federal criminal charges. Quite a few repo agencies have been prosecuted under this. Right now there are several federal court cases about how much debt must be accumulated before the HOA can foreclose, and the courts have recently rules on the lower federal courts (it is on appeal) that HOA's must reimburse the difference between the debt, and the average estimate value (not the sale price, but actual real value) to the owner.
Must be why he was able to get his house back. This is ridiculous.
Load More Replies...In most cases, it's illegal to foreclose on the home of a deployed service member.
Not until recently: The Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act of 2003 (SCRA)
Load More Replies...It was probably in Florida. The HOAs in Florida are notorious.
As a Florida resident, I can absolutely confirm this fact
Load More Replies...I want to know who it was sold to. I have a sneaking suspicion it was one of the people on the HOA board too.
Every single homeowner living in an HOA controlled area should have to serve on the HOA board for 2 year terms in rotation. No elections. They must serve, even if they're just landlords of the home. It's when the same people run things for years or decades that the rot and corruption creeps in.
Our HOA isn't that bad right now. They want to implement some things that I don't agree with. However, once I inherit this house, I will start the process to dissolve the HOA. Look it up. It can be done. For the curious: I do not wish the demise of my mother. It's her house, she invited me to live here with her and I will abide by her house rules while she is here. 100%.
Glad he was able to get it back. Bet the HOA fought him harder that the Irag did!
That story is true and actually happened in my neighborhood in Frisco, TX.
I'm from the UK, I'm struggling to understand how the hell the HOA were allowed to do any of this and did they have to pay any reparations?
Load More Replies...Just to understand, I'm not american, but if you buy a house in HOA neighborhood, you have to be part of the HOA association? Or is it something that you can avoid? Because if it is somewhat compulsory to have the right to buy a house in a certain neighborhood, it's just crazy as hell
In most neighborhoods that have an HOA, you do not have a choice. If you buy the house, you are required to sign up with the HOA, pay their dues every year (which are usually absolutely ridiculous), and adhere to all of their stupid by-laws.
Load More Replies...My uncle served in Iraq and it messed him up big time. He got PTSD and went missing. All they found was his skull, less than a mile from his house in the middle of the woods.
Glad he regained his home. I hope he sued the c**p out of the HOA. Our service people deserve better.
It should be banned today. All it does is make it so corporations can ask you to do work when you go home without you protesting.
The Catacombs. A network of ancient stone quarries. Part of it can be visited, among which the "scary" part where the bones from à medieval cemetary were moved to make place for new builds, but there are many other "forbidden" caves and tunnels that only few people know of.
I remember reading somewhere that the mosquitoes he released were male, and therefore would not actually bite anyone. He just wanted to scare them.
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"It somewhat negates Einstein’s idea that imagination is more important than knowledge – knowledge is what allows us to imagine. " Pretty sure Einstein would not agree with this statement. He DID say "imagination is more important than knowledge" - but it was specifically in regard to questions about discovering "new ideas, " not navigating life. And he also said a couple of times - that the "intuition" he claimed was responsible for his innovations - was constructed solidly on top of - mass knowledge. He didn't know himself exactly how it all worked - but without abundant random information floating around- "intuition" is not likely to happen.
"It somewhat negates Einstein’s idea that imagination is more important than knowledge – knowledge is what allows us to imagine. " Pretty sure Einstein would not agree with this statement. He DID say "imagination is more important than knowledge" - but it was specifically in regard to questions about discovering "new ideas, " not navigating life. And he also said a couple of times - that the "intuition" he claimed was responsible for his innovations - was constructed solidly on top of - mass knowledge. He didn't know himself exactly how it all worked - but without abundant random information floating around- "intuition" is not likely to happen.