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This one is a little different. On the first week of some college introductory economics class, the teacher was basically just reading from the textbook we all had, some historical figure who was a member of the “Council Of Seven” or something like that, when a student raised her hand - “Ma’am, what was the Council Of Seven?” - the teacher paused, and said - “Can you bring it tomorrow, as assignment?” - and actually giggled. This was in the 90s, pre-internet, looking up something like that was not a trivial task.
The teacher might have thought she was being cute and/or deflected her own shortcomings, but the actual effect was that we immediately lost all respect and trust for her, no one ever raised a hand again in her class, we all immediately went into rote robot mode for the rest of the semester, disengaged on a gut level.
What did the council of seven end up being?
My guess is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G7
When our classmate stood at the front and read it from a piece of paper the following day, we were all already tuned out of that class for the rest of the semester, I wasn’t paying attention. In fact, I might be remembering the name wrong, I can’t be certain.
Homelander, the deep, the a-train, black noir, translucent, queen maeve, and starlight.
My middle school computer teacher once said that unwanted email was called “flame”. I had never heard that term before or since used in the context of email.
My guess is they got confused with the concept of “flame wars” and “flaming” from forums. It doesn’t quite match their definition of “unwanted” messages exactly, but it’s not entirely far off either.
That I would never amount to anything and always be 10 steps behind my peers.
Believed that for a long time. Eat shit Mary.
It was heavily implied in my school that gender dysphoria is a choice…
I would’ve responded “well so is school”.
They had some bs 75% attendance rule so it really wasn’t a choice either ahaha
“Evolution is wrong. They will never find the missing link”.
In the interceding 30 years the hominid family try has filled in quite a bit. Many closely related mammals have existed.
I never understood the whole missing link debate. Like, are we supposed to expect evolution always takes baby steps?
When I was 11, an entire class of students and the biology professor were adamant that snakes do not have skeletons. I knew for a fact this was false because I had seen one at the museum.
Did they think snakes were like giant fucking worms or something?
Sidenote, I had only ever seen a snake head and out of curiousity just searched up a snake skeleton just now and i am pretty scarred.
Isn’t a single teacher or statement. But how I was generally treated by the institution.
I am somewhere on the spectrum and/or have some kind of learning disability that makes the formal learning environment very hard for me.
I was tested as a kid back in the 80’s, but they said I didn’t score bad enough to be diagnosed and that I was just slow essentially.
So the school system stuck me at a desk in the back corner of the classrooms with a divider between me and the the rest of the room and more or less treated me like a leper.
Whatever the official diagnosis, I ended up getting into computers and turns out I am really good at it. So now I make a six figure income doing something I am interested in.
The experience ingrained in me a deep hatred for formalized education, especially when it comes to my son (who is officially diagnosed as autistic). I have a very hard time taking anything my kids teachers say seriously and as anything more than the rantings of a narrow minded fool. Thankfully, my wife being the wonderful person that she is keeps me in check with that. And reminds me not to think my experience at my backwater school was the norm. And I think she has been right this far thankfully.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
I’m really sorry you went through that and really happy you’ve found success!
RAM is memory inside the computer, ROM is memory on the disk (5.25" floppy)
Another funny thing nowadays is that most ROM is EEPROM meaning it’s not read-only.
That moment when I only know that’s wrong because I’ve played Hyperdimension Neptunia.
Not a Teacher, but my Boss. He advised me to clock in and out based on the system time, not GPS.
“The computer time is more accurate”.
Linux is created by RedHat
What’s RedHat?
Its linux based enterprise operating system
“Respect your elders, because they are always right”
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Post by stimmyabby:
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
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Reply post by do-as-youre-told:
This is so well put I am stunned
Source: flyingpurplepizzaeater
End of reply post.
If you study hard in school you can do anything.
If this were true, I’d know more languages than I do now.
Well, you can, you just won’t be paid anything for it.
first day of a new school year “what are you doing in this class, didn’t we made you fail last year?”
I had bad grades but mathematically good enough to pass just barely. She was the Computer Science teacher and I proved her wrong more than once in front of the class. So yeah, she had a grudge.
“Made you” fail last year? Quite the wording…
We watched an educational movie from the 1950s by Frank Capra, which my 8th grade science teacher had liked as a kid. He admitted they were somewhat dated, but still basically accurate.
In it, the scientist explained that they still don’t understand how chloroplasts transform sunlight into energy. The cartoon chloroplast hid what she was doing and said something like, “The Russians don’t know either.”
I was pretty blown away by a scientist admitting they didn’t know something, at that age, but when I looked it up, I discovered that scientists had pretty much figured it out, but it’s very complicated.
Clip if you’re interested: https://archive.org/details/our_mr_sun around 36:09
It’s not how big it is, it’s how you use it.
