Everything Wrong with the Education System, Summed Up in a Detention Letter
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Likely a fake. It's been around for a long time. No teacher would write the last bit.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/hilliker.asp
Although this was a lot like what school was like for me. I had a teacher insist that the moon did not rotate for example. And another teacher who accepted that the "day change" happened at 1am rather than at midnight because a prominent family in the school thought that and their kids would say it. So rather than be an adult, the teacher, probably actually unsure of when the time did actually change, just demanded that everyone agree that it changed at 1am.
It was lessons like this that made me realize that being in a position of authority did not warrant respect. Anyone demanding respect that they couldn't earn was an imbecile.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Likely a fake. It's been around for a long time. No teacher would write the last bit.
http://www.snopes.com/humor/letters/hilliker.asp
Although this was a lot like what school was like for me. I had a teacher insist that the moon did not rotate for example. And another teacher who accepted that the "day change" happened at 1am rather than at midnight because a prominent family in the school thought that and their kids would say it. So rather than be an adult, the teacher, probably actually unsure of when the time did actually change, just demanded that everyone agree that it changed at 1am.
It was lessons like this that made me realize that being in a position of authority did not warrant respect. Anyone demanding respect that they couldn't earn was an imbecile.
Even if it is fake, that kind of situation has happened countless times before...
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@scottalanmiller said:
Although this was a lot like what school was like for me. I had a teacher insist that the moon did not rotate for example.
I didn't know that, I didn't take a science class that specifically covered this. Interesting - I also thought the 'dark side of the moon' wasn't real (and yeah I know it really isn't) but also didn't realize that the far side of the moon is never exposed to the earth. Thanks
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@Dashrender said:
I didn't know that, I didn't take a science class that specifically covered this. Interesting - I also thought the 'dark side of the moon' wasn't real (and yeah I know it really isn't) but also didn't realize that the far side of the moon is never exposed to the earth. Thanks
This was covered all through elementary science for me. It was seventh grade when the teacher decided that all science knowledge was wrong and that she knew better. She actually said to ignore all books because she knew from watching it that the moon didn't rotate.
I did a big demonstration in class to show her that her observations actually proved that it did rotate and that she didn't understand what rotation was.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I didn't know that, I didn't take a science class that specifically covered this. Interesting - I also thought the 'dark side of the moon' wasn't real (and yeah I know it really isn't) but also didn't realize that the far side of the moon is never exposed to the earth. Thanks
This was covered all through elementary science for me. It was seventh grade when the teacher decided that all science knowledge was wrong and that she knew better. She actually said to ignore all books because she knew from watching it that the moon didn't rotate.
I did a big demonstration in class to show her that her observations actually proved that it did rotate and that she didn't understand what rotation was.
Wow...
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I didn't know that, I didn't take a science class that specifically covered this. Interesting - I also thought the 'dark side of the moon' wasn't real (and yeah I know it really isn't) but also didn't realize that the far side of the moon is never exposed to the earth. Thanks
This was covered all through elementary science for me. It was seventh grade when the teacher decided that all science knowledge was wrong and that she knew better. She actually said to ignore all books because she knew from watching it that the moon didn't rotate.
I did a big demonstration in class to show her that her observations actually proved that it did rotate and that she didn't understand what rotation was.
Someone got detenion that day...
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Although this was a lot like what school was like for me. I had a teacher insist that the moon did not rotate for example.
I didn't know that, I didn't take a science class that specifically covered this. Interesting - I also thought the 'dark side of the moon' wasn't real (and yeah I know it really isn't) but also didn't realize that the far side of the moon is never exposed to the earth. Thanks
It is made of cheese though, right? I mean surely my teacher wasn't wrong on that point.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Although this was a lot like what school was like for me. I had a teacher insist that the moon did not rotate for example.
I didn't know that, I didn't take a science class that specifically covered this. Interesting - I also thought the 'dark side of the moon' wasn't real (and yeah I know it really isn't) but also didn't realize that the far side of the moon is never exposed to the earth. Thanks
It is made of cheese though, right? I mean surely my teacher wasn't wrong on that point.
Or Mighty Mouse!
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@Carnival-Boy said:
@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Although this was a lot like what school was like for me. I had a teacher insist that the moon did not rotate for example.
I didn't know that, I didn't take a science class that specifically covered this. Interesting - I also thought the 'dark side of the moon' wasn't real (and yeah I know it really isn't) but also didn't realize that the far side of the moon is never exposed to the earth. Thanks
It is made of cheese though, right? I mean surely my teacher wasn't wrong on that point.
No, that is fact. Wallace and Gromit proved that.
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@thanksaj said:
No, that is fact. Wallace and Gromit proved that.
Never imagined that you would be a Wallace & Gromit fan. That's from before your time.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
No, that is fact. Wallace and Gromit proved that.
Never imagined that you would be a Wallace & Gromit fan. That's from before your time.
You kidding me? I love them! Watched them as much as I could growing up!
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My kids watch Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time. Same animation from the same team.
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@scottalanmiller said:
My kids watch Shaun the Sheep and Timmy Time. Same animation from the same team.
Never heard of either, but cool!
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They are both spin offs really. Shaun appears in one of the W&G episodes then got his own show. Then Timmy Time spun off from that. Each one is meant for a younger and younger audience.
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@scottalanmiller said:
They are both spin offs really. Shaun appears in one of the W&G episodes then got his own show. Then Timmy Time spun off from that. Each one is meant for a younger and younger audience.
Hmm...claymation is kind of a dead art...you don't see it too much anymore...
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Sadly...
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I was a fan of their work before they made Wallace & Gromit. They used to make shorts about animals being interviewed at the zoo.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I was a fan of their work before they made Wallace & Gromit. They used to make shorts about animals being interviewed at the zoo.
Oh cool!
