decaheximal
11-04-2003, 01:00 AM
Let me just start off by saying that after having been pulled from two schools and expelled from a third, experienced every level of education from honorary advanced classes to remedial education, and participated in school environments containing as few as 100 students campus-wide to several thousand total, that I think I've had a diverse enough schooling background to know what I'm talking about. Just so we know where I stand here.
Public education is pure and unexempted evil by any standards, regardless of what god any of you may or may not worship.
It's a filthy barnhouse inhabited by filthy swine greedily devouring whatever long-spoiled rotten slop is marketed to them from the Almighty subjugators above them. It's a rat race where the truly creative can do no right, and the pre-programmed bullshit-sowing propoganda crapmongers can do no wrong. The upper ranks are polluted with an amount of sarcastic sadism, so strong, so vile, the rotting stench would gag a maggot.
Personal intelligence is worthless in this environment. The head honchos naturally consider themselves God's gift to academia. Challenge their egos, and one soon finds oneself in a completely fruitless and unfair argument under false pretenses of inherent student inferiority, which if pursued further, will ultimately result in punishment. In fact, it's all but impossible to challenge any wrong in this system, for at the very moment of victory, there will always be the teacher's trump card of censorship, punishment, and dismissal from further debate. These tactics have long been employed by tyrannous dictators. Silencing public rebellion and punishing offending parties to serve as an example. Forcing "reform" regimen on the guilty to convince potential rebellers that no amount of will for change could ever result in anything but more personal reform.
There's a funny story where my best friend got in an argument with a high school instructor over a stupid mathematical concept. His teacher taught the class that to find the area of a trapezoid, one should divide the offending unquantified shape into two triangles and a square before calculating the sum of the area of the individual shapes. So my friend mentions that he knows of a formula that can accomplish the same thing in a single step. Of course, the teacher insists that his personal method is easier, and cites his high profile college mathematics background as proof of his theory. So, the next day, my friend digs up the formula, brings it to class, and guess who ends up trying to make who look like an idiot? The teacher insists in the face of overwhelming evidence against him that he is in fact still in the right, and ultimately dismisses the argument before he can be proven further to be wrong.
Instructors are within their rights to punish any student for any reason they see fit. I have read this very thing in my school manuals. The plain fact is, a classroom is absolutely _NOT_ a democracy. I have heard, on several occasions, instructors confirm this statement verbatim. I have read this, too, in my school manuals. No one ever claimed a classroom was such a thing, apparently. And yet, every man woman and child is legally bound to submit to such an environment in their childhood. People can, and do, get punished for, well, bullshit, essentially. Minor infractions, crimes they aren't guilty of, and in some cases, innocent acts that aren't even incorrect by a whole class's consent, but only by the instructor's.
Does anyone notice how full of morons society seems to be? It's no surprise. Children are taught at an early age that they can't challenge authority no matter how blatantly wrong it may be. They are taught that freedom of speech is a sunny-day concept reserved only for the conservative; a figurehead right in theory. Certainly not in practice. How many times have you ever been told, and I literally quote, to "Shut up?" I have observed those exact words screamed to a classroom full of students. People's self esteem is ruined early on as well. I could go on to tell you about how the ongoing efforts to oust everyone else's grade point average, become one of the exalted on special academic lists, and attain status of all around straight-A student tends to wreak havoc on the soul, but seriously, after that "shut up" example, do I need to? It's sickening.
I have, and I'm not even kidding, had nightmares about being forced back into schooling. I seriously wake up with a jump, sweating, heart beating through my chest, and full of anxiety. Call me a wimp if you want. I have never, ever, in my entire life, experienced more suppressed inner rage and raw anger about anything. Words can't even begin to express my loathing and inner torment. I hate to drag such a horrible example into the light here, but does anyone remember Columbine? I would certainly never do anything like that, and it was a terrible tradgedy, but all at once, (and these are just my raw emotions here, not my intended actions or feelings) I certainly emphathize with those guys.
Now, for the sake of completeness, I'm sure plenty of people can attest to highly enjoyable schooling experiences that sound nothing like my account. But frankly, that opinion does not matter. I mean, go ahead, anyone who wants to is certainly welcome to attest against me, but I am willing to wage my own two testicles on the fact that time and time again, exponentially more people feel the way I do than you do. There's always an exception to the most proven concepts. I even have a few (well, two...) memorable teachers that were godsends to me. But this is out of how many total?
The day I dropped out of school was the single happiest day of my life. And if I ever looked back from that decision, it was solely to spit in school's face.
Finally, in closing, I would like to say that although everyone knows me here as decaheximal, that my real name is in fact George E. Whiteside. And if, as I hope, there is anyone from my educational past reading this, that I have something I would like to stand up loud and proud to say.
Fuck school.
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Public education is pure and unexempted evil by any standards, regardless of what god any of you may or may not worship.
It's a filthy barnhouse inhabited by filthy swine greedily devouring whatever long-spoiled rotten slop is marketed to them from the Almighty subjugators above them. It's a rat race where the truly creative can do no right, and the pre-programmed bullshit-sowing propoganda crapmongers can do no wrong. The upper ranks are polluted with an amount of sarcastic sadism, so strong, so vile, the rotting stench would gag a maggot.
Personal intelligence is worthless in this environment. The head honchos naturally consider themselves God's gift to academia. Challenge their egos, and one soon finds oneself in a completely fruitless and unfair argument under false pretenses of inherent student inferiority, which if pursued further, will ultimately result in punishment. In fact, it's all but impossible to challenge any wrong in this system, for at the very moment of victory, there will always be the teacher's trump card of censorship, punishment, and dismissal from further debate. These tactics have long been employed by tyrannous dictators. Silencing public rebellion and punishing offending parties to serve as an example. Forcing "reform" regimen on the guilty to convince potential rebellers that no amount of will for change could ever result in anything but more personal reform.
There's a funny story where my best friend got in an argument with a high school instructor over a stupid mathematical concept. His teacher taught the class that to find the area of a trapezoid, one should divide the offending unquantified shape into two triangles and a square before calculating the sum of the area of the individual shapes. So my friend mentions that he knows of a formula that can accomplish the same thing in a single step. Of course, the teacher insists that his personal method is easier, and cites his high profile college mathematics background as proof of his theory. So, the next day, my friend digs up the formula, brings it to class, and guess who ends up trying to make who look like an idiot? The teacher insists in the face of overwhelming evidence against him that he is in fact still in the right, and ultimately dismisses the argument before he can be proven further to be wrong.
Instructors are within their rights to punish any student for any reason they see fit. I have read this very thing in my school manuals. The plain fact is, a classroom is absolutely _NOT_ a democracy. I have heard, on several occasions, instructors confirm this statement verbatim. I have read this, too, in my school manuals. No one ever claimed a classroom was such a thing, apparently. And yet, every man woman and child is legally bound to submit to such an environment in their childhood. People can, and do, get punished for, well, bullshit, essentially. Minor infractions, crimes they aren't guilty of, and in some cases, innocent acts that aren't even incorrect by a whole class's consent, but only by the instructor's.
Does anyone notice how full of morons society seems to be? It's no surprise. Children are taught at an early age that they can't challenge authority no matter how blatantly wrong it may be. They are taught that freedom of speech is a sunny-day concept reserved only for the conservative; a figurehead right in theory. Certainly not in practice. How many times have you ever been told, and I literally quote, to "Shut up?" I have observed those exact words screamed to a classroom full of students. People's self esteem is ruined early on as well. I could go on to tell you about how the ongoing efforts to oust everyone else's grade point average, become one of the exalted on special academic lists, and attain status of all around straight-A student tends to wreak havoc on the soul, but seriously, after that "shut up" example, do I need to? It's sickening.
I have, and I'm not even kidding, had nightmares about being forced back into schooling. I seriously wake up with a jump, sweating, heart beating through my chest, and full of anxiety. Call me a wimp if you want. I have never, ever, in my entire life, experienced more suppressed inner rage and raw anger about anything. Words can't even begin to express my loathing and inner torment. I hate to drag such a horrible example into the light here, but does anyone remember Columbine? I would certainly never do anything like that, and it was a terrible tradgedy, but all at once, (and these are just my raw emotions here, not my intended actions or feelings) I certainly emphathize with those guys.
Now, for the sake of completeness, I'm sure plenty of people can attest to highly enjoyable schooling experiences that sound nothing like my account. But frankly, that opinion does not matter. I mean, go ahead, anyone who wants to is certainly welcome to attest against me, but I am willing to wage my own two testicles on the fact that time and time again, exponentially more people feel the way I do than you do. There's always an exception to the most proven concepts. I even have a few (well, two...) memorable teachers that were godsends to me. But this is out of how many total?
The day I dropped out of school was the single happiest day of my life. And if I ever looked back from that decision, it was solely to spit in school's face.
Finally, in closing, I would like to say that although everyone knows me here as decaheximal, that my real name is in fact George E. Whiteside. And if, as I hope, there is anyone from my educational past reading this, that I have something I would like to stand up loud and proud to say.
Fuck school.
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