From http://smartpei.typepad.com/
-Passive acceptance is a more desirable response to ideas than active criticism.
-Discovering knowledge is beyond the power of students and is, in any case, none of their business.
-Recall is the highest form of intellectual achievement, & the collection of unrelated ‘facts’ is the goal of education.
-The voice of authority is to be trusted & valued more than independent judgment.
-One’s own ideas & those of one’s classmates are inconsequential.
-Feelings are irrelevant in education.
-There is always a single, unambiguous Right Answer to a question.
-English is not history & history is not science & science is not art & art is not music, & art & music are minor subjects & English, history & science are major subjects, & a subject is something you ‘take’ &, when you have taken it, you have ‘had’ it, & if you have ‘had’ it, you are immune & need not take it again. (The Vaccination Theory of education?)
… and the fact that…
I have to get up at 5:30 in the morning, and I usually don’t catch the bus. This leaves me late to school and tired from my 4-5 hours sleep.
The school building is filthy and disease ridden. We have rodents, birds, mold, overflowing toilets, and allergy-provoking plants.
I hate most of the people in the school. Yes, I have friends. But we are what the “popular kids” refer to as “freaks” when they’re talking amongst themselves.
The cafteria food is nasty, and a ripoff.
The school administration is clueless. They have required that when a student writes a paragraph, it must be in “SEXXI” Format. This is a statement, followed by an explanation, two examples, and then an implication. This form is nothing but aggravating to independent thinkers such as myself.
The school IT administration is clueless. They’ve used hubs throughout the network, so data collisions prevent the network from being used. The filtering software is set to the “Nazi” setting, disallowing cold remedies (”Drug paraphernalia”), Technical sites (”Hacking/Proxy bypass”), Informative articles on Communism (”Hate speech”), and Myspace (”Porn”). Also, the student file storage server is unable to fill the requests required for the proper function of the technology-involved classes (like C++, VB.NET, and Multimedia Production.)
Most of the teachers are clueless. These teachers are those individuals who flunked out of real life. (Banking, Chemical Research, etc.)
Everything is the student’s fault. It’s not the teacher’s ability to teach, its that there are 35+ students who happen to be in the same class that become retarded during that class period and then return to their normal intelligence level during the next class-change.
October 16th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
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