IIRC liberal arts is stuff that has to do with the things a free person (it's liber as in the root for liberate) was supposed to have a good grounding in in antiquity
okay well i sort of knew that, it's just hard to connect, like, learning rhetoric from aristotle to anything i can imagine a cool modern person spending eight million bucks in tuition for
Yeah, no one is insulted or anything. The issue is more that "PC", for example, is not a phrase that tends to ever see much use here (never mind the associations; not that I mean that as a comment about you). So, just a little surprising more than anything (least for me), but ultimately, well. Shrug
IIRC liberal arts is stuff that has to do with the things a free person (it's liber as in the root for liberate) was supposed to have a good grounding in in antiquity
okay well i sort of knew that, it's just hard to connect, like, learning rhetoric from aristotle to anything i can imagine a cool modern person spending eight million bucks in tuition for
well, when you go to like, any liberal arts institution they do spend a lot of time talking about how their program is designed to makes you a better and more well rounded person
Yeah, no one is insulted or anything. The issue is more that "PC", for example, is not a phrase that tends to ever see much use here (never mind the associations; not that I mean that as a comment about you). So, just a little surprising more than anything (least for me), but ultimately, well. Shrug
yeah g'zactly, the use of the phrase PC is kinda associated with... like people on reddit whining about how their video game boobladies dont have as much boobs as they used to due to the feminazis, or whatevs
so while your point was understood, there were unintentional connotations?
which as i said is understandable considering your extended absence, and nobody is upset or anything
IIRC liberal arts is stuff that has to do with the things a free person (it's liber as in the root for liberate) was supposed to have a good grounding in in antiquity
okay well i sort of knew that, it's just hard to connect, like, learning rhetoric from aristotle to anything i can imagine a cool modern person spending eight million bucks in tuition for
well, when you go to like, any liberal arts institution they do spend a lot of time talking about how their program is designed to makes you a better and more well rounded person
like the ideal citizen, y'know?
yeah ok just like.. what do you actually do
argh i looked this up and ran into great books and am having unfairly bad memories dredged up oh nooooo
IIRC liberal arts is stuff that has to do with the things a free person (it's liber as in the root for liberate) was supposed to have a good grounding in in antiquity
okay well i sort of knew that, it's just hard to connect, like, learning rhetoric from aristotle to anything i can imagine a cool modern person spending eight million bucks in tuition for
well, when you go to like, any liberal arts institution they do spend a lot of time talking about how their program is designed to makes you a better and more well rounded person
like the ideal citizen, y'know?
yeah ok just like.. what do you actually do
argh i looked this up and ran into great books and am having unfairly bad memories dredged up oh nooooo
you
citizen good
basically, it's mostly hype i think
bleh
reminds me that i really wish there was more emphasis on good citizenship in secondary schooling
i got in trouble in a secondary citizenship class once cos i thought "communist dictatorship" was maybe too reductive of communism, and the teacher said i should i be in the advanced class to get that kind of nuance
i got in trouble in a secondary citizenship class once cos i thought "communist dictatorship" was maybe too reductive of communism, and the teacher said i should i be in the advanced class to get that kind of nuance
i got in trouble in a secondary citizenship class once cos i thought "communist dictatorship" was maybe too reductive of communism, and the teacher said i should i be in the advanced class to get that kind of nuance
i had like, the most advanced citizenship course my high school had to offer and i still felt it was severely inadequate, most ashamed ive ever been to be an american not including the times the CIA has murdered people and made bad powerpoints
i got in trouble in a secondary citizenship class once cos i thought "communist dictatorship" was maybe too reductive of communism, and the teacher said i should i be in the advanced class to get that kind of nuance
i had like, the most advanced citizenship course my high school had to offer and i still felt it was severely inadequate, most ashamed ive ever been to be an american not including the times the CIA has murdered people and made bad powerpoints
i got in trouble in a secondary citizenship class once cos i thought "communist dictatorship" was maybe too reductive of communism, and the teacher said i should i be in the advanced class to get that kind of nuance
i had like, the most advanced citizenship course my high school had to offer and i still felt it was severely inadequate, most ashamed ive ever been to be an american not including the times the CIA has murdered people and made bad powerpoints
lol my APUSH project was literally government agency badnesses. i had this whole division by agency, CIA ATF WTF FBI, cointelpro, waco, the works. this is what i wanted to do in high school
I have actually never heard of a "citizenship course" though and am not really sure what that would be.
Like
how to do your taxes n stuff?
wow that sounds practical! no i at least am talking about a civics class. checks and balances, the media* is the powerhouse of the cell, so on and so forth
the feeling i felt when i first saw this is best described as "this is so inept it's kind of adorable like a small anime character that trips and falls over"
the feeling i felt when i first saw this is best described as "this is so inept it's kind of adorable like a small anime character that trips and falls over"
this looks like what my younger brothers would make if you told them to come up with a poster for a TOP SECRET government agency.
i guess i would sum it up as that math classes are bad before college, really just soul shaving despair, completely independently of how good or bad you are at arithmetic and whatnot
well in college I took a course called Basic Algebra A which is literally like, you needed to take that if you did a certain amount of badly on the entrance test, and you had to pass that course and Basic Algebra B before they let you take any actual math class.
I failed BAA twice, and had the teacher tell me I should drop out.
i haven't taken any of those classes, but i imagine they are not fun, especially if being in the meat grinder for years has made math this horrible ununderstandable dull activity for you
Part of the problem now is that there's no real incentive for me to learn it except for its own sake.
Turns out, when your resume consists entirely of being a cashier at various places, people don't care how well you can find out the third side of a triangle by being provided the lenghts of two sides, they'll think you're stupid anyway.
Part of the problem now is that there's no real incentive for me to learn it except for its own sake.
Turns out, when your resume consists entirely of being a cashier at various places, people don't care how well you can find out the third side of a triangle by being provided the lenghts of two sides, they'll think you're stupid anyway.
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Hahaha, wassup? I know it's been awhile.
argh i looked this up and ran into great books and am having unfairly bad memories dredged up oh nooooo
i think it was a poster not a powerpoint though
*not actually covered
i haven't taken any of those classes, but i imagine they are not fun, especially if being in the meat grinder for years has made math this horrible ununderstandable dull activity for you
Once you start bringing in that y=mx+b shit my brain just shuts off.
math education is just something i get mad about
stupid... cold war... imagining how rocket engineers would learn... cubes..................... damn it all
that's my math sadness face, it's rectangular, because math is for squares
my regular sadness face is also applicable of course: :(
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