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Not very important but I remember it strangely well.
I was 8 years old. My teacher asked “What is one hundred times one hundred?”
I raised my hand and said “Ten thousand!”
“No, it’s one thousand. Ten times ten is one hundred, and one hundred times one hundred is one thousand.”
“But… It’s ten thousand. Can I show you on a calculator?”
“No! Sit down, it’s one thousand. I’m the teacher, I should know.”
I later got a calculator and showed her and she didn’t apologise.
If she was the math teacher, that should cost her the role.
If you remember this the next time we loop around, ask her what 100 times 10 is supposed to be then.
“With a mind like yours, you’re going to have no problem getting ahead in life”
What was the holdup that ended up preventing you from getting ahead?
Subconscious self-loathing as a result of trying to memory hole something evil I did when very young.
Also a desperate reliance on others’ praise and approval due to emotional abuse from my mother.
A warped model of accomplishment resulting from all the praise I got for easily mastering concepts, coupled with vicious gaslighting and moral attacks I suffered whenever I strove for something difficult.
And many other things which I’m just starting to uncover.
I kind of feel like a programmer sleuthing out bugs in a product, but while I spend time sleuthing out the cause of my product not working, the trade show is half over.
Cripling anxiety and despair.
I’m here for you. I can relate to that.
“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?
You have a wonderful mind. Too bad you never use it.
Fuck you Pat Fisher.
That I would never amount to anything and always be 10 steps behind my peers.
Believed that for a long time. Eat shit Mary.
One of my teachers told me that RL Stine died and for 20 years I believed her.
He’s in his 80’s right now. He seems to have made it this far just to show off to that teacher.
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!
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
We had a teacher that said phones could give you cancer due to radiation and the classic 5G causes X conspiracy theories. Certainly wasn’t the worst teacher imo though.
“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
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Don’t think you don’t amount to anything. You come off as a nice person, the best kind of person. I think of it like this; if you were a loser (and you’re not), those two are cheaters. One’s biggest fear should be becoming “professionals” like them.
“Medieval armies didn’t use crossbows when attacking castles.”
My hand immediately shot up. “What are you talking about? Of course they did.”
My elderly history teacher replied “no, they didn’t.”
Me “Why do you think that?”
Her “because crossbows fire in a straight line so they would just shoot over the castle.”
I looked at my classmates, hoping they would see how insane this is. They were looking at me like I grew a second head.
Me “that’s not true. At all.”
Her, getting slightly annoyed, “how do you know?”
Me “well for one, I’ve fired a crossbow, I know how they work. For two, they had GRAVITY BACK THEN, the bolt comes back down!”
Her, and some of the class “ooooh!”
…
Her “well anyway…” And continues the lesson.
This was a college class.
“I think you’ll find that crossbows are a hitscan weapon 😏”
Did she think the arrow would just… fly in space for all eternity and never come down or something?
Yes, apparently.
I’m reading this and think, “Oh man… I wish I had shot a cross bow in 4th grade.”
This was a college class.
Ugh. Wait! Do 4th graders go to college… No. No they don’t.
Well, I grew up doing medieval reenactment so my crossbow experience was from about the 4th grade, so there’s that.
LOL, show her 300.
“We will fight in the shade!”
Lmao I guess nobody uses guns to take a fortress either.
They at least sound chiller than the people in the other examples.
I think it was the senility and the tenure
This one is funny, I innocently listened to Motley Crue when I was about 12, Girls Girls Girls in particular. You know that lyric about the menage a trois? There was no Internet in those days, so I just thought I’d ask my French teacher. She covered a smile and told me it meant three people were living in a house together.
I had a Mormon science teacher who told us that there was a giant planet in the middle of the universe that astronomers could see and that was where god lived I never believed anything he said after that
Were they Mormon? Scientologist?
I spent first 8 years in a Christian school, took me to adulthood to learn that evolution theory is not just a “unproven hypothesis”
it’s funny how much the scientifically illiterate rag on something because it’s ‘merely’ a theory. they decline to acknowledge it’s the ONLY working theory that explains the fossil record, genetics, heredity etc., and has been proven to accurately predict things over and over again.
I challenge these folks to show me something that works better than evolution to explain all those things, and then it’s a matter of faith or the only reason evolution makes sense is because of the woke agenda educational industrial complex.
fucking chuds.
I’ve seen it go both ways. My best friend and her best friend went to a Catholic school, and they hinted that they did learn about evolution but with no added knowledge external to the few Bible verses that were usable to support evolution because they remotely seemed to point to it (and even then it wasn’t referred to as evolution, just the mutation lineage or something).
That’s strange, because the Catholic Church officially endorses evolution.
