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 Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:32 pm
Please excuse this if its too short at the moment. I will be adding to it over time and before the next issue. I have chosen the topic to be on the stupidity of the education system when it comes to giving the facts in elementary, middle, and high school....things people should be taught when they are not.
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:11 pm
Scarlet Jile Cool. But if it reads like an angsty, rebellious teenager's diary, then I'll secretly hate you. Out loud. wink Agreed, only I'm allowed to sound like an angsty, rebellious teenager who hates the educational system of America. Though, here's a pretty good columnist on the subject in case you'd like insider information. http://www.lewrockwell.com/taylor/taylor-arch.html
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:57 pm
Long story short. Special education money is spent more on the mental end than on the gifted end. Gifted students get dicked like no other. Jackasses think that we have to be put into classes with stupid people to develop properly even though these are just opionated jackasses with no actual research into the subject at all. On top of that, they just spent millions on construction to come out with exactly d**k for improvements. On top of that, because they didn't give a s**t for air quality I got Vocal Coord Disfunction which has pretty much ended my running career, something I was actually rather good at. And they've ******** up so much with the construction it isn't even funny. Then combine all that with a principle who only gives a s**t about getting promotions. If a study came out saying that test scores increased if all students stood on their head for 50 minutes a day while singing the Uzbekicstanian National anthem, we'd be forced to do that the next week.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:32 pm
Some of the main things I intend to cover are the constant occassions where the students are mislead as to who invented what, and who did what before whoever else. There are so many inaccuracies in today's history classes that its sickening. Just some examples.
1) Date the steam engine was invented
2) Date the machine gun was invented
3) Date the automatic door opener was invented
4) Date the coin operated vending machine was invented
5) Date the fully automated puppet theater with sound was invented
6) First credited true car
7) The evidence behind the contact between many civilizations in the ancient time
These are just some of the inaccuracies taught in history class.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 8:22 pm
I think I'm going to make this ramble small for the first time. I am meaning to sound wierd.
The entire conceptualization of a fair and progressive educational system, as far as I'm concerned, is the most faulty object of obsession since the time of the first suggestion humanity came from monkeys, some religious standpoint, or some hocus-pocus revelation that makes so little sense to the masses that someone must, independently, yell: WTF is wrong with you? Well, in that case if you are most interested in what I have to say on us, the supporters of this felled system, them, the providers of this wicked trial, and the miniscule brown furry rabbit hidden under my bed where the mutated dust bunnies lie, then please take a seat in the auditorium. If not, then you may leave and ask the overly large hissing cockroach in the back to guide you to the furnace where your body will be promptly incinerated for the better of society.
While what I say may not be wholly remarkable for you or the other people here (and those of you who may pass out from knowledge over consumption) what I say will most likely grab your attention--grab it and shake its existence like some night-stalking predator bent on bringing the apocalypse. Whether it is a person jumping from a window, in front of a train, off cliff or drowning themselves in a bucket of floating apples, you will have heard what I've had to say on this most utterly insulting educational system that has risen from the ashes of darkness and preys upon our children like some rampant nightmarish creature out of hell and living in the bedtime stories parents tell their children to scare them into a sleep which they probably don't deserve. Now onto business.
It has come to my attention most teachers will credit the steam engine to some schmuck in the 1800's who probably thought sticking a camel through the eye of a needle was easier than running things on this simple compressive activity that rent unto the masses a joy-gasm in awe of the newest so called inventions of the day. In fact, they probably had more than just joyful spasms of pleasure and fully engaged in such activities, thus giving birth to the first 'carbangers.' Chug, chug, chug, glug, glug, glug,--the steam engine powered our trains and soon led to a little book in the 1920's that told women how to get the most out of the vibrations while riding a train. (The book was, in fact, so popular, it went through 27 editions of publication...amazing! Let the carnal culture thrive!)
So where in the world did the Steam Engine come from if it wasn't invented by this guy, this man who is credited? It came from Alexandria, nearly 1800 years ago---record scratch---say what? Nearly 1800 years ago, by Hero(n) of Alexandria. Yes, you read me correctly, young one. And so its revealed unto you the truth about the steam engine, known back then as the Aeolipile, a simple novelty device that would spin with the power of steam created from a tub of water inside the device heated by a fire. Yeah, what a frikken mind job the education system has played upon you here. And not only was it the Steam Engine invented around this time, but also the following: the marvelous automatic door opener, automated puppet theater with lights and sound, the coin-operated vending machine, the machine gun, the handheld crossbow, the odometer, and the world's first con machine---break slam, crash- WTF?! Yes, unfortunately, you've been lied to here again...all of these were invented by the same man, Hero[n] of Alexandria. Face it, you've been screwed.
This has been Xeheqlar, your Quilled Rambler to the world of facts! *Domo-Kun dance*
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:31 pm
Hey, I saw that show on the History Channel. Or was it the Science Channel? You have a point- some "inventions" were invented long before we generally started using them. Still, what use is it to tell your average history student that some guy in ancient Egypt invented a steam engine over a thousand years ago when we didn't actually use it until the 1800s? When most of Heron's inventions had been completely forgotten anyway? The reason we don't attribute the invention of the helicopter and tank to Leonardo DaVinci is because while he invented the concepts, he never made any, or even a simple prototype. Heron did make some working inventions, like the steam engine (used for opening temple doors, not to move a train), and he did make a coin-operated holy water dispenser, but their modern equivalents were made mainstream by completely different men who were likely uninfluenced by Heron.
Either way, I don't put too much of the responsibility for my education with the free education system we have today. It is like being angry at the ocean for not washing up more tasty fish for your dinner. Its just pointless, and you're still hungry. I believe that if you really want to be well educated, you should pursue it on your own, as well as at school. Read books, study what you're curious about, watch educational television, and generally be studious on your own steam (har har).
Still, I guess if you don't rage against the machine a bit, the machine won't ever change to something less frustrating. So by all means continue your ramblings.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:42 pm
arddunaid Hey, I saw that show on the History Channel. Or was it the Science Channel? You have a point- some "inventions" were invented long before we generally started using them. Still, what use is it to tell your average history student that some guy in ancient Egypt invented a steam engine over a thousand years ago when we didn't actually use it until the 1800s? When most of Heron's inventions had been completely forgotten anyway? The reason we don't attribute the invention of the helicopter and tank to Leonardo DaVinci is because while he invented the concepts, he never made any, or even a simple prototype. Heron did make some working inventions, like the steam engine (used for opening temple doors, not to move a train), and he did make a coin-operated holy water dispenser, but their modern equivalents were made mainstream by completely different men who were likely uninfluenced by Heron. Either way, I don't put too much of the responsibility for my education with the free education system we have today. It is like being angry at the ocean for not washing up more tasty fish for your dinner. Its just pointless, and you're still hungry. I believe that if you really want to be well educated, you should pursue it on your own, as well as at school. Read books, study what you're curious about, watch educational television, and generally be studious on your own steam (har har). Still, I guess if you don't rage against the machine a bit, the machine won't ever change to something less frustrating. So by all means continue your ramblings. It may be free, but it is also compulsary. And if you're going to force somebody to go through something, you have the responsibilty to do it correctly.
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:52 pm
Education is compulsory, sure. But you can be homeshooled or privately schooled. There are options, but public school is far more convenient.
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