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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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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
From January 25 to 31, 2017, Smith ran marathons in Perth, Australia; Singapore; Cairo, Egypt; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Garden City, New York; Punta Arenas, Chile; and King George Island, Antarctica. It’s part of a challenge called Triple 7 Quest, operated by Marathon Adventures, which planned the itinerary and logistics.
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.
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Louise Clarke 1 year ago
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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Ines Olabarria-Smith 1 year ago
Marcela Gracia Ibeas and Elisa Sánchez . Elisa came back as Mario. They even got married in church!!! Ther will be a series in Netflix.
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.
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Cora C 1 year ago
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.
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Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
I think Norway and Finland has something similar if not the same as allemansrätten?
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Dahamada Jamawas 1 year ago
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.
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John Bababuie 1 year ago
To all the people talking about how they should have used Wood or something else, this was the tundra, where no wood was growing.
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
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
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Loverboy 1 year ago
What a great year for cinema. The Shawshank Redemption is imo the best but at the time I probably would've chosen Jurassic Park
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
Shawshank = awesome. Jurassic Park = jaw dropping. I have been a dinosaur freak since I was about 6. At 31, my friend who took me to the movie, when you first see the Brachiosaurus, he elbowed me in the ribs and said "Breathe!" I needed that poke, because I wasn't. Breathing, that is.
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tiffhoepp 1 year ago
They still do. You're just old and feeling nostalgic
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martymcmatrix 1 year ago
The sad thing is that this was already 30 years ago, and not (just) 20 years as my subconscious supposedly tried to fool me...🤷🏽
Illustrious G 1 year ago
The 90’s will never be more than 20 years ago!!!!
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Flora Porter 1 year ago
And Four Weddings and a Funeral. Distinctly remember this prompting the 'number of partners' conversation with new boyfriend. (He sulked for weeks.)
Blyss Blyssylb 1 year ago
All are great films! Oddly, I just watched them all again during this month (03-2024)
Bettye McKee 1 year ago
I would definitely have chosen The Shawshank Redemption. Forrest Gump was a disappointment to anyone who had read the book.
Mickie Shea 1 year ago
Movie enjoyment, at its best. Now there is rarely one half-decent movie at any given time.
Wendell T Sasaki 1 year ago
The 1970s was the best decade for film: The Godfather I,II; Jaws American Graffito, Star wars, Kramer vs. Kramer, Alien, Annie Hall
April Armstrong 1 year ago
When "Shawshank" is on TV, you watch it no matter how many times you have seen it. Forest too.
Jo Davies 1 year ago
3 of my favourite movies there. I had to wait until they came out in video because I had given birth to my son in September!
Awkward Momma Panda 1 year ago
That’s two out of four that I saw at the cinema when they were originally released, although I was only 8 or 9 at the time. Shawshank and Pulp Fiction may have been a bit too grown up for me to see, even though I was a rather precocious youngster.
Alicia M 1 year ago
I'm the same. Depends on my mood, but overall, I would probably pick Shawshank as the better movie.
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Casey Payne 1 year ago
Competing with Ace Ventura, The Crow, The Lion King, True Lies, The Mask, Dumb & Dumber, Clerks, Timecop, Leon: The Professional, Stargate, Speed, Natural Born Killers, Star Trek Generations, The Santa Clause, 4 Weddings& A Funeral, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Beverly Hills Cop III, City Slickers II, D2: The Mighty Ducks, My Girl II, and the all time favorite sequel - Class of 1999 II in the category "WTF Why?"
Justin Rogers 1 year ago
All fantastic movies. There's been a few golden ages for cinema and the 80's and 90's were awesome well into the 00's
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pasej41913@bustayes.com 1 year ago
Jurassic Park was released in the summer of 1993, so not very likely it was still out in 1994.
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.
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Michael Largey 1 year ago
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.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
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.
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The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
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.
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Annik Perrot 1 year ago
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.
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Toni Ahlgren 1 year ago
You get mosquitos and you get mosquitos and you get mosquitos! True Oprah style.
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Scott Wilkins 1 year ago
The cat was later arrested and sent to prison for causing the destruction of three warships...
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David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
If I remember correctly, at a seismic station in distant Jakarta it was clearly heard and the scientists manning the station at first thought it was an earthquake. Only to find no record of an earthquake on their seismograph. Concluding correctly that it was the sound of an explosion heard through the air.
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Ranger Kanootsen 1 year ago
And also, you can replace the water with another liquid! So if you want a ketchup bidet
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Colin Matthews 1 year ago
Whereas our tiger snake is that happy combo of deadly toxic and psycho angry at everyone…
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
WOW I thought I recognised her face but I still can't figure out from where. What's crazy is how much of here filmography is lost to time. It looks like 3/4 of her films are "Lost Films", including her first five feature films.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
I'm curious as to why the banner has been obscured. It's obviously in a public place
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
So by positive, I'm assuming more than zero and if your alcolizer is sensitive to 0.01 BAC, as most of them are, that's not much.
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Petra Schaap 1 year ago
first time i was in the states, summer of 1998. We wanted to visit a huge supermarket but also had other plans, so my friend walked in to asked when they closed. The answer was "at xmas" :-D
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
Otherwise known as "dad joke disease". Now I know what's wrong with my father! ;)
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Simone Bianco 1 year ago
This "fact" is not completely true. Her victims were turned into soap bars, she just used the blood to lace some pastries she even offered to friends and family.
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arthbach 1 year ago
The standard naming system is to take the first part of the daddy' name, and the second half of mummy's and smoosh them together. A geep has goat for a dad, and a sheep for a mam. The 'opposite' is a 'shoat'. A liger has lion dad, and a tiger mam, and its counterpart is a tigon.
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Upstaged75 1 year ago
Which is why it's a good idea to wash it well when you shower. I clean mine out with q-tips as well. I think many people forget about it, which is why it's so dirty. Ick!
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
And he was brought down by his own manifesto. His BIL read it in the newspaper and was like "That sounds a lot like my brother-in-law." He called the FBI and bam, found the bastard. BTW he finally died last year.
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les 1 year ago
i can remember my first steps. there was an old couch i went hand over hand along and when i got to the end i managed to walk across the room. i didn't learn to crawl until months later. I'm told i was not much over a year and a half old but i dont know myself what age i was cos i didn't know numbers yet.
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Annik Perrot 1 year ago
Saw that story in Tintin. Acknowledged comic book fiction versus dubious historical fiction.
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Cosmikid 1 year ago
"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.
valery77 1 year ago
he said that to justify how bad he was in math and science in general, in fact was his wife, a great mathematician, who deduce the famous formula that it was attributed to him, but anyway he was the one who received the noble prize, not her, the one who actually deserved it.
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Cosmikid 1 year ago
"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.
valery77 1 year ago
he said that to justify how bad he was in math and science in general, in fact was his wife, a great mathematician, who deduce the famous formula that it was attributed to him, but anyway he was the one who received the noble prize, not her, the one who actually deserved it.
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