teh blog of Jim

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-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. I can’t find Chernobyl. It’s somewhere north of Kiev (КИЕВ). I need it for my english paper.

FYI, You’re looking for “ЧОРНОБУЛЬ” or “ПРИПЯТ”.

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I woke up today. “I feel like crap” I said, attempting to blow my highly congested nose. “Damn allergies”.

I took a shower, brushed my teeth with the regular minty toothpaste, and went downstairs to continue my daily routine. I opened up the kitchen cabinet in search of my Java Loves You Mug I received from Sun a while ago. I covered the bottom with sugar from the old diner-style sugar dispenser we keep next to the bowls, and I covered it with dark dominican coffee and WalMart’s Finest Half and Half. “Allergy medz should fix my damn allergies” I opened the cabinet to my left and pulled out my Zyrtec D 12 hour, knocking the DayQuil off of the shelf “Alas” I said sleepily. ‘Do I feel crappy enough to warrent a Vicks product?’ I thought ‘… yeah’. I popped my usual white capsule and fumbled with the consumer-proof wrapping of the DayQuil Capsules. several moments later, I had swallowed half of my coffee and both capsules of Vicks, the second one going down painfully sideways.

Later that day… in 8th period Biology, I had to make a graph of the mass of beans. Every 3 1cm x 1cm blocks equals 2 beans of mass X. I counted out the Y-Axis of the line graph, marking the values as I went. “Two, Four, Eight, Sixteen, Thirty-Two, Sixty-Four, One Twent– This isn’t right” I showed the graph to my project partner. He laughed, I chuckled. “Lets try this again” I said, as I erased the exponential values. “Two, Four…. ” I started. “Six…” my partner continued. “Right… Six… Eight, Ten, Twelve, Fourteen, Eighteen, Thirteen, Sixteen, Nineteen, Twenty. There. Done.” I showed the graph to my partner for approval.

“Uhhh… Jim… this is like… completely messed up.”
“Oh.” I said, as I looked down at my horrible work. “My sister was right… DayQuill will stone you out of your mind.”

I took one more try at making the graph… Third time’s the charm. (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20). The teacher collected the projects for the day. I leaned over by my partner….

“Hmm…”
“What?” He said.
“I wonder how I did on that first period geometry test.”
“Hahahahaha”
“This should be interesting…”

Update: I got a 28/40 on it. Sadly, I used pi to try and figure out the volume of a rectangular prism.

During the 7th and 8th years of my education, I had a decrepit art teacher who allegedly killed her 3 husbands. She also locked several kids in the classroom closet — confirmed. She also had a habit of stifling creativity and had a natural hate for children. It appears that one of the student’s graded art projects has appeared on the web at Worth1000.com .

-jX

[BoingBoing]

Well, in my cornicopia of intelligence of a school, someone decided it would be a good Idea for the poeple who took Visual Basic .NET to learn HTML in order to broaden their horizons.

I beleive I could be more challenged by modeling an indescript object out of Play dough.

-jX