I am aware of that, don't get me wrong I believe that some people deserve help in form of free education and medical care but when I hear things as oh give the people money for housing, day to day life or other thing it pisses me off. I work, all my family and friends work so why should other people leech off your work and live on our expense? In my opinion socialism in general is a doctrine that rewards losers. You don't work you get money so you won't die...or at least it's how socialism works in my country....
There are people that abuse the system, yes. In my opinion, the benifits recieved in the form of what you describe ought only to be afforded to those that have a good reason for failing to gain employment (disability, injury, etc). By way of example, my mother is unable to work due to her back being crippled. She would work if she could, but she simply cannot. In such cases, one ought to recieve benefits.
However, at the same time, what about those that can work but simply cannot get a job? (Note that I said "cannot" and not "will not". People that will not find employment are just leechers). For those that can work but cannot find a job, the pension ought to sustain existence at least until they do find a job. The pension in that case does not need to be anything extravagant, but just enough that they can survive.
I understand the stance of people not liking their hard earned tax money being spent on people that do not work for a living. With that said, at the same time, I believe that we have a moral imperative as humans to look after those that cannot themselves, and that we have an obligation to support ones basic survival at least until the person in question can find employment. To leave someone to rot when they have nowhere to turn is cruel in my eyes.
I am aware of that, don't get me wrong I believe that some people deserve help in form of free education and medical care but when I hear th… moreings as oh give the people money for housing, day to day life or other thing it pisses me off. I work, all my family and friends work so why should other people leech off your work and live on our expense? In my opinion socialism in general is a doctrine that rewards losers. You don't work you get money so you won't die...or at least it's how socialism works in my country....
I agree that people who are unable to work because of reasons beyond their control should get help. No denying that. The point is that usualy the people are content with just sustained existence, because they don't have to do anything. They get social houses that are almost for free and other forms of help for nothing. They have no motivation.
The best thing that could be done is have them work for the city they live in as a compensation for the money they get. If someone refuse then the money should be instatly cut off. That would be just.
What I mean that the way things are done makes the people dependant on the state's help and even worse except it as if they deserve it. That's my main grief with that type of support.
There are people that abuse the system, yes. In my opinion, the benifits recieved in the form of what you describe ought only to be afforded… more to those that have a good reason for failing to gain employment (disability, injury, etc). By way of example, my mother is unable to work due to her back being crippled. She would work if she could, but she simply cannot. In such cases, one ought to recieve benefits.
However, at the same time, what about those that can work but simply cannot get a job? (Note that I said "cannot" and not "will not". People that will not find employment are just leechers). For those that can work but cannot find a job, the pension ought to sustain existence at least until they do find a job. The pension in that case does not need to be anything extravagant, but just enough that they can survive.
I understand the stance of people not liking their hard earned tax money being spent on people that do not work for a livin… [view original content]
I agree that people who are unable to work because of reasons beyond their control should get help. No denying that. The point is that usual… morey the people are content with just sustained existence, because they don't have to do anything. They get social houses that are almost for free and other forms of help for nothing. They have no motivation.
The best thing that could be done is have them work for the city they live in as a compensation for the money they get. If someone refuse then the money should be instatly cut off. That would be just.
What I mean that the way things are done makes the people dependant on the state's help and even worse except it as if they deserve it. That's my main grief with that type of support.
Basic biology is definitely not useless. At least the human skeleton and body parts should be basic knowledge. Basic physics need to be known as well. Chemistry should probably be optional, even though I'm definitely interested in it it doesn't look like much people share my enthusiasm.
* Religion.
* Chemistry.
* Physics.
* Biology.
* Ancient Greek (no one talks Ancient Greek anymore, why do children even have to learn i… moret, what the fuck).
That's pretty much it. I just wish those subjects were optional, at least for Middle School (or Junior High School, I dunno).
Learning how to play a recorder. And no, that wasn't my choice. At my elementary school, we were literally required to learn how to do it. Because y'know, God forbid music isn't your passion. I never got the hang of it because we were forced to do this in third grade and I had worse ADD back then than I do now. I haven't even touched that thing since I was nine and several years later I never needed it or the ability to play one ever in my entire life. Waste of time and money on the school's part if you ask me.
Are you planning on pursuing programming? If so, you'll find a use for most of what you learn in your high school math courses.
I ask because "Hello World" is the name of the first program every programmer learns. Not sure if your username is a reference to that or if its a coincidence.
What grade are you in, if you're still in school? I learned a little bit about it when I was in the 7th grade, and then a little more when I was in 8th. I'm currently in 9th, and haven't had to use it for anything in my math class.
Yes, but this ain't statistics. (12 • 56)-8 but the eight is the 8th power, not distribution of 8. Well it's the distribution of the eight power not the number eight.
It is. I'm talking about logs, sin, and finding the midpoint of a midpoint I've seen an equation involved S being surrounded by multiple le… moretters. Up, down, left, right, you can name it and there was a letter there.
When you ask a Math teacher when you'll be using that kind of material they'll just be silent and move on.
I'm not, actually. I was trying to learn it, simply because I figured it might be useful (I am the daughter of an IT Technician), and I DID notice the "Hello World" thing, and went, "heh".
I actually want to be either a biologist or an author. I signed up for the forums when I was 12 (I'm 15), and the first thing I thought of was, "Hello world, I am totally-not-a-12-year-old on a forum for teens and adults!" and then added "123".
Yeah... it was actually a really weird coincedence.
Are you planning on pursuing programming? If so, you'll find a use for most of what you learn in your high school math courses.
I ask bec… moreause "Hello World" is the name of the first program every programmer learns. Not sure if your username is a reference to that or if its a coincidence.
Where I live, we called them recorders. I had to learn it too. I ended up going on to play the clarinet, though, so I guess the fingerings were very similar.
How to play a fucking fipple flute. (Is that the English word for it? I guess)
Like, I guess we have learnt a lot of important stuff in s… morechool. But what in the actual fuck do I do with knowing how to play a damn fipple flute? From grades 2-5 all we did in music lessons was play fipple flutes. There was NOTHING else we did in those years. The music class had this small box full of fipple flutes that you could borrow if you didn't have your own (They seriously expected us to buy one) and you could only guess how damn dirty they were. We were supposed to wash them always after we had used them, but there was always some people who just threw it in the box without doing so. That resulted in one of my class mates noticing that his flute had still someone else's dribble left inside. I bought my own fucking fipple flute after that.
So next time I'm in a job interview, I might as well tell the employer that I can play a fipple flute. Totally hired.
English is fun, but ya it's useless. If you read a lot you really don't need much more when it comes to english studies unless you're going to be a editor for a publisher. Even most writers are not that good at writing.
Agree about literature, but writing and general proficiency/fluency in the English language is very important, especially if you're white collar. An inability to articulate properly in writing or speech can shit on everything you decide to do professionally.
Also, it's funny to compare that to this...
History is the best subject ever, it also encourages people to think critically at that being subject matter can differ heavily from one nation to another on the same topic.
I'm a fellow history lover, but your bias is showing.
Math is something I have to use, being my primary duty is to take a flat piece of metal and make it into something that isn't flat, and at t… moreimes insane shapes and the engineers are too stupid to provide good reference material so I had to relearn a lot of math I forgotten just to get angles/dimensions right, again because engineers provide about 10% of the information I need to know. lol
English is fun, but ya it's useless. If you read a lot you really don't need much more when it comes to english studies unless you're going to be a editor for a publisher. Even most writers are not that good at writing.
History is the best subject ever, it also encourages people to think critically at that being subject matter can differ heavily from one nation to another on the same topic.
Science is also fun... I took every science course in high school. xD
Idk man. Order of operations and fraction work has saved my ass on a number of occasions. I'm also still using basic algebra in political science, of all things.
Idk man. Order of operations and fraction work has saved my ass on a number of occasions. I'm also still using basic algebra in political science, of all things.
Really though, I think more attention should be paid to the individual child's strengths and weaknesses.
For instance, I don't see well and according to my high-school testing, I have minimal understanding of spatial relations and piss-poor motion planning. It was a complete waste of time to put me in Geometry, Physics (it was a hands-on course), sewing class, shop class (debatable) and especially Driver's goddamn Ed (I have no hope of driving).
At the same time, I'm gifted at foreign languages, speech and writing. If I could've replaced those classes with more English, Social Studies and Spanish, I would've had a much richer educational experience. At the same time, there's kids with no gift for letters but a natural passion for building and math. Why not get them to a level of basic proficiency in English/Social Studies and then switch them over to Calculus, Physics and Electronics/Shop? One-size fits all education stunts the potential of our youth.
That's why one of my few "conservative" stances is decentralizing education.
English is fun, but ya it's useless. If you read a lot you really don't need much more when it comes to english studies unless you're going … moreto be a editor for a publisher. Even most writers are not that good at writing.
Agree about literature, but writing and general proficiency/fluency in the English language is very important, especially if you're white collar. An inability to articulate properly in writing or speech can shit on everything you decide to do professionally.
Also, it's funny to compare that to this...
History is the best subject ever, it also encourages people to think critically at that being subject matter can differ heavily from one nation to another on the same topic.
I'm a fellow history lover, but your bias is showing.
Sports is one of the most important as teaches and entourages kids to stay fit and healthy especially nowadays kids just sit indoors on the internet 24/7. Plus obvious physical and mental benefits of sport or exercise.
Not everything that you learn in life needs to be applicable to a career. You're allowed to learn things for the sake of expanding your knowledge. Yes, school should do a better job at preparing people for adult life, but I don't think that means that that's all it should teach you. School should broaden the scope of your general knowledge. In the instance of your flute playing, you now have an understanding of how to play it and can probably read music. How is that pointless?
How to play a fucking fipple flute. (Is that the English word for it? I guess)
Like, I guess we have learnt a lot of important stuff in s… morechool. But what in the actual fuck do I do with knowing how to play a damn fipple flute? From grades 2-5 all we did in music lessons was play fipple flutes. There was NOTHING else we did in those years. The music class had this small box full of fipple flutes that you could borrow if you didn't have your own (They seriously expected us to buy one) and you could only guess how damn dirty they were. We were supposed to wash them always after we had used them, but there was always some people who just threw it in the box without doing so. That resulted in one of my class mates noticing that his flute had still someone else's dribble left inside. I bought my own fucking fipple flute after that.
So next time I'm in a job interview, I might as well tell the employer that I can play a fipple flute. Totally hired.
Cursive, even though I write with it and love it.
Really though, I think more attention should be paid to the individual child's strength… mores and weaknesses.
For instance, I don't see well and according to my high-school testing, I have minimal understanding of spatial relations and piss-poor motion planning. It was a complete waste of time to put me in Geometry, Physics (it was a hands-on course), sewing class, shop class (debatable) and especially Driver's goddamn Ed (I have no hope of driving).
At the same time, I'm gifted at foreign languages, speech and writing. If I could've replaced those classes with more English, Social Studies and Spanish, I would've had a much richer educational experience. At the same time, there's kids with no gift for letters but a natural passion for building and math. Why not get them to a level of basic proficiency in English/Social Studies and then switch them over to Calculus, Physics and Electron… [view original content]
We got a pretty intensive course in 3rd grade. Still only REALLY learned how to do cursive while in high school. You have to do some cursive shit in the SAT, so I taught myself.
Sports is one of the most important as teaches and entourages kids to stay fit and healthy especially nowadays kids just sit indoors on the … moreinternet 24/7. Plus obvious physical and mental benefits of sport or exercise.
Teaches kids to work as a team to achieve a goal.
Not pointless it's vital imo
I don't know about anyone else, but in Middle School and Elementary School, we had keyboarding class. Fucking pointless.
Cursive. (A lot of people write it. But I'm shit at it and I didn't actually ever want to learn it.)
Learning what religion is hailed in what country. Or what that Religion is about. I don't really care to learn every detail about it.
Music. (I never really liked that class, some of the time it was fun, but ehh...)
A lot of stuff in Social Studies.
And although this isn't really what the school is trying to teach, but you learn it from school. The urge to murder everyone at when they overuse memes.
(EDIT) Art class. Dunno, seemed pointless to me unless you wanted to make cool stuff, but I wasn't ever a fan of it.
(EDIT) Reading class. (And no, it isn't a class where teachers read to you (Unless that is a actual class, then add it to the list). In middle school, everyone had that class, unless you were in Band or something like that. It was my Sleeping Class.
Hopefully that will change in the future. I am in my final year of teaching degree in an Australian University. One of the major aspects of education that (hopefully) is changing world-wide is to incorporate authentic learning experiences and assessment. This means aligning the teaching to experiences with real world experiences and examples.
Plus with the notion of teaching to the student, not the subject/class, learning will become more personal.
A philosophy I hold close to me in regards to teaching is to "work with" each individual student. That means not teaching from the front of the class to "One-size fits all", but knowing each of your student, their learning style, their background, and their interests, etc. Combine this with authentic real world experiences and examples in areas such as English, Maths, Humanities and Social Science, Science and even the Arts, and students would feel like they are actually learning something relevant, and therefore stay engaged.
Anyway that is my spill on education. I could go on for hours about the benefits of each subject area.
I know how you feel about global warming. In my opinion, a stronger focus should be made on ethical side of the topic. e.g. looking at how human beings impact the earth, and depending on your world-view (religion), developing case study's on solutions to changing it. That is my opinion though.
For reading class, there are very important skills that you learn in this. Comprehension, fluency, meanings, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, reading ability are key examples. Am I to understand that keyboarding class is all about your ability to type? Because if it is, it certainly has a place in the 21st century
* 70% of all math. Some of it's handy.
* I don't know about anyone else, but in Middle School and Elementary School, we had keyboarding cla… moress. Fucking pointless.
* Cursive. (A lot of people write it. But I'm shit at it and I didn't actually ever want to learn it.)
* Learning what religion is hailed in what country. Or what that Religion is about. I don't really care to learn every detail about it.
* Music. (I never really liked that class, some of the time it was fun, but ehh...)
* A lot of stuff in Social Studies.
* And although this isn't really what the school is trying to teach, but you learn it from school. The urge to murder everyone at when they overuse memes.
* (EDIT) Art class. Dunno, seemed pointless to me unless you wanted to make cool stuff, but I wasn't ever a fan of it.
* (EDIT) Reading class. (And no, it isn't a class where teachers read to you (Unless that is a actual class, then add it to the list). In middle school, … [view original content]
Maths has a huge range of skills that contributes to a lot of adult life. In maths alone, students develop their literacy skills (terms, vocabulary, ability to interpret), their numeracy skills (ability to apply and understand the concepts), problem solving skills (Sharing $100 among 5 people = Simple division) and reasoning skills (why did I answer this using this formula)
what's funniest sport or time playing sport you ever had in school?
Mine was getting a guy who pissed me off few times square in the face playing dodge ball
Playing with tennis ball alone was fun ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Joking I understand you don't like sport just my passion I like that story to most girls in my year who didn't like sport never participated just sat down and watched so glad you were interested enough to play
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You do know that anything funded by taxes is technically socialist, though?
Everything of math
I am aware of that, don't get me wrong I believe that some people deserve help in form of free education and medical care but when I hear things as oh give the people money for housing, day to day life or other thing it pisses me off. I work, all my family and friends work so why should other people leech off your work and live on our expense? In my opinion socialism in general is a doctrine that rewards losers. You don't work you get money so you won't die...or at least it's how socialism works in my country....
There are people that abuse the system, yes. In my opinion, the benifits recieved in the form of what you describe ought only to be afforded to those that have a good reason for failing to gain employment (disability, injury, etc). By way of example, my mother is unable to work due to her back being crippled. She would work if she could, but she simply cannot. In such cases, one ought to recieve benefits.
However, at the same time, what about those that can work but simply cannot get a job? (Note that I said "cannot" and not "will not". People that will not find employment are just leechers). For those that can work but cannot find a job, the pension ought to sustain existence at least until they do find a job. The pension in that case does not need to be anything extravagant, but just enough that they can survive.
I understand the stance of people not liking their hard earned tax money being spent on people that do not work for a living. With that said, at the same time, I believe that we have a moral imperative as humans to look after those that cannot themselves, and that we have an obligation to support ones basic survival at least until the person in question can find employment. To leave someone to rot when they have nowhere to turn is cruel in my eyes.
There are losers, and then there are leachers.
I agree that people who are unable to work because of reasons beyond their control should get help. No denying that. The point is that usualy the people are content with just sustained existence, because they don't have to do anything. They get social houses that are almost for free and other forms of help for nothing. They have no motivation.
The best thing that could be done is have them work for the city they live in as a compensation for the money they get. If someone refuse then the money should be instatly cut off. That would be just.
What I mean that the way things are done makes the people dependant on the state's help and even worse except it as if they deserve it. That's my main grief with that type of support.
That sounds reasonable.
Basic biology is definitely not useless. At least the human skeleton and body parts should be basic knowledge. Basic physics need to be known as well. Chemistry should probably be optional, even though I'm definitely interested in it it doesn't look like much people share my enthusiasm.
It's really hard to forget the Pythagorean Theorum though, since it's so simple.
Learning how to play a recorder. And no, that wasn't my choice. At my elementary school, we were literally required to learn how to do it. Because y'know, God forbid music isn't your passion. I never got the hang of it because we were forced to do this in third grade and I had worse ADD back then than I do now. I haven't even touched that thing since I was nine and several years later I never needed it or the ability to play one ever in my entire life. Waste of time and money on the school's part if you ask me.
Are you planning on pursuing programming? If so, you'll find a use for most of what you learn in your high school math courses.
I ask because "Hello World" is the name of the first program every programmer learns. Not sure if your username is a reference to that or if its a coincidence.
You would have a very rough time in any College level introductory stats course if you didn't know how exponents distribute.
You have lazy teachers. Logarithms, in particular, are highly relevant to even introductory stats.
Oh, I know. She's absolutely terrible.
I'm not, actually. I was trying to learn it, simply because I figured it might be useful (I am the daughter of an IT Technician), and I DID notice the "Hello World" thing, and went, "heh".
I actually want to be either a biologist or an author. I signed up for the forums when I was 12 (I'm 15), and the first thing I thought of was, "Hello world, I am totally-not-a-12-year-old on a forum for teens and adults!" and then added "123".
Yeah... it was actually a really weird coincedence.
Where I live, we called them recorders. I had to learn it too. I ended up going on to play the clarinet, though, so I guess the fingerings were very similar.
Yeah, that explains everything. I learned most of it around the same time. Can't remember it for shit.
Agree about literature, but writing and general proficiency/fluency in the English language is very important, especially if you're white collar. An inability to articulate properly in writing or speech can shit on everything you decide to do professionally.
Also, it's funny to compare that to this...
I'm a fellow history lover, but your bias is showing.
Idk man. Order of operations and fraction work has saved my ass on a number of occasions. I'm also still using basic algebra in political science, of all things.
I just use the calculator, that is all I need
Cursive, even though I write with it and love it.
Really though, I think more attention should be paid to the individual child's strengths and weaknesses.
For instance, I don't see well and according to my high-school testing, I have minimal understanding of spatial relations and piss-poor motion planning. It was a complete waste of time to put me in Geometry, Physics (it was a hands-on course), sewing class, shop class (debatable) and especially Driver's goddamn Ed (I have no hope of driving).
At the same time, I'm gifted at foreign languages, speech and writing. If I could've replaced those classes with more English, Social Studies and Spanish, I would've had a much richer educational experience. At the same time, there's kids with no gift for letters but a natural passion for building and math. Why not get them to a level of basic proficiency in English/Social Studies and then switch them over to Calculus, Physics and Electronics/Shop? One-size fits all education stunts the potential of our youth.
That's why one of my few "conservative" stances is decentralizing education.
The only thing that we learned this year that is helpful, is interest, that is all.
Obviously.
Sports is one of the most important as teaches and entourages kids to stay fit and healthy especially nowadays kids just sit indoors on the internet 24/7. Plus obvious physical and mental benefits of sport or exercise.
Teaches kids to work as a team to achieve a goal.
Not pointless it's vital imo
Not everything that you learn in life needs to be applicable to a career. You're allowed to learn things for the sake of expanding your knowledge. Yes, school should do a better job at preparing people for adult life, but I don't think that means that that's all it should teach you. School should broaden the scope of your general knowledge. In the instance of your flute playing, you now have an understanding of how to play it and can probably read music. How is that pointless?
They taught cursive for like a week in 3rd grade at my school. I can barely sign my name lol.
We got a pretty intensive course in 3rd grade. Still only REALLY learned how to do cursive while in high school. You have to do some cursive shit in the SAT, so I taught myself.
Global Warming.
Whenever it comes up in science , I spend the lesson waiting to learn something useful.
At least if they choose interesting activities to do...
Hopefully that will change in the future. I am in my final year of teaching degree in an Australian University. One of the major aspects of education that (hopefully) is changing world-wide is to incorporate authentic learning experiences and assessment. This means aligning the teaching to experiences with real world experiences and examples.
Plus with the notion of teaching to the student, not the subject/class, learning will become more personal.
A philosophy I hold close to me in regards to teaching is to "work with" each individual student. That means not teaching from the front of the class to "One-size fits all", but knowing each of your student, their learning style, their background, and their interests, etc. Combine this with authentic real world experiences and examples in areas such as English, Maths, Humanities and Social Science, Science and even the Arts, and students would feel like they are actually learning something relevant, and therefore stay engaged.
Anyway that is my spill on education. I could go on for hours about the benefits of each subject area.
I know how you feel about global warming. In my opinion, a stronger focus should be made on ethical side of the topic. e.g. looking at how human beings impact the earth, and depending on your world-view (religion), developing case study's on solutions to changing it. That is my opinion though.
For reading class, there are very important skills that you learn in this. Comprehension, fluency, meanings, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, reading ability are key examples. Am I to understand that keyboarding class is all about your ability to type? Because if it is, it certainly has a place in the 21st century
Maths has a huge range of skills that contributes to a lot of adult life. In maths alone, students develop their literacy skills (terms, vocabulary, ability to interpret), their numeracy skills (ability to apply and understand the concepts), problem solving skills (Sharing $100 among 5 people = Simple division) and reasoning skills (why did I answer this using this formula)
Do you like any sports?
It depends
Depends on what?
How fun it is
what's funniest sport or time playing sport you ever had in school?
Mine was getting a guy who pissed me off few times square in the face playing dodge ball
I liked when we were doing everything we want and I was just playing tennis alone
Playing with tennis ball alone was fun ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Joking I understand you don't like sport just my passion I like that story to most girls in my year who didn't like sport never participated just sat down and watched so glad you were interested enough to play