Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Looks like Google lost the header on my blog. I just fixed it. I like this header.

I'm watching the Walking Dead right now. "Everybody else is doing it". It's pretty interesting, but I have to admit I'm a bit put off by how there's a cliffhanger at the end of every episode. I assume that the people in the show are intended to represent a sample of the average southeastern population. It somehow reminds me of the type of illogical thinking that seems to be all-but taught in school nowadays.

Lets have a school council that never does anything important -- that pretty much hits the nail on the head as to why student councils are instantiated. I'm pretty sure it teaches them exactly how much a representative of the people can actually do for the people. How about lets teach kids "evolution, but not any other worldview, because we're so damned open minded." As if other worldviews are "obviously false", because it's not like 80% of the world is deist or anything. We can satisfy their parents by telling the kids once at the beginning of class, "it's just a theory.", and following up with, "just like germ theory, and the cardiorespiratory theory, and the theory of gravity.". Because all theories have equal merit, and our closed-mindedness to opposing theories may as well negate their existence.  [I'm not about to make this post about why science is the modern day Vatican; but I'll write about it if someone asks] How about lets teach kids math only one way everywhere, because this way will definitely reach every learning style, and the teachers are not intelligent or coherent enough to look at their kids and see who's learning and how, and try to meet the kids at their level. We'd better hand out birth control and condoms to teenagers, because we've given up on morality and these kids aren't smart enough to take responsibility for their own actions (nobody ever waited until marriage to have sex anyway -- that was a myth). For that matter, everybody has to obey the dress code except for the cheerleaders, and also all the other girls sports teams. Oh and I almost forgot to mention: those kids better get into the habit of extrapolating 3 sentence ideas into 5 pages, because that's what their bosses will want.

I've got the end to that series all thought out and worded in my head. I'll see if I can get to posting it tomorrow.

Oh oh. And I've decided to start looking for a pottery class in Phoenix. If any of my nonexistent readers knows one, let me know.

"Well how do you know that?"

P.S. Everybody please feed Fido. He's at the bottom of the page. Food is available by holding your mouse over "more".

2 comments:

  1. Have you read "the abolition of man" by C. S. Lewis? It is very applicable to what's happening in the education system today, despite that fact that he wrote it in 1947.

    ReplyDelete

Map
 
my pet!