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do you hate things that everybody else loves?
yes I do! :x 76%  76%  [ 78 ]
I'm not sure :shrug: 15%  15%  [ 15 ]
nope, I am totally in sync with everybody else :bounce: :bounce: 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
I just wanna lucscious soft serve ice cream :chef: 9%  9%  [ 9 ]
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12 Jan 2016, 5:34 pm

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Nope, all you gotta do is pass the exams. Most just get the information long enough to pass. Most do not try to build upon their lessons for a greater collective knowledge.
While I enjoyed education for the sake of education, you wouldn't believe how many people I heard talking about how it was really just their ticket to a job.

It's disheartening to know that much of the information just flushes through right after a test, and how little it meant in the first place to some, especially because I tried to take much of what I learned as important and enriching to who I was as a person.


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12 Jan 2016, 5:38 pm

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Nope, all you gotta do is pass the exams. Most just get the information long enough to pass. Most do not try to build upon their lessons for a greater collective knowledge.
While I enjoyed education for the sake of education, you wouldn't believe how many people I heard talking about how it was really just their ticket to a job.

It's disheartening to know that much of the information just flushes through right after a test, and how little it meant in the first place to some, especially because I tried to take much of what I learned as important and enriching to who I was as a person.

are you liberal arts? I guess that is what separates such from the card-punching drones in other more mercenary fields, for example.



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12 Jan 2016, 5:40 pm

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my guess is that people with compact ears are smarter and wealthier than average.


Yes! I am just going to go with this answer, because I want it to be true :D


I worked for a couple of years in warehouse with three Black guys. One day one one of them did a double take when looking at me, and said "you got [N word] ears!"

Since I had a WTF look on my face he explained that "Whites have big ears, and Blacks have small ears, and you have small ears like a Black person".

It opened up a whole new vast dimension of reality that I had never noticed before: that most of my family and most of my neighbors (who are of the Caucasian persuasion) had bigger ears than I have. And the Blacks have smaller ears than Whites (as a rule). And that I was more typical of Blacks in my ear size. :o

The president does have big ears though.



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12 Jan 2016, 5:40 pm

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It's disheartening to know that much of the information just flushes through right after a test, and how little it meant in the first place to some, especially because I tried to take much of what I learned as important and enriching to who I was as a person.
I would have treasured you as a student. I would have taken extra time to work with you on my time (I do it for a few students, which has also been a problem). That's how much I appreciate the love of learning. Oh...the stories I could tell you of not only the wienies that made my stomach churn as I prepped for classes. But, I can tell you good stories of students that made it all worthwhile, once in a while.

I wouldn't care how much you did not get it. That's what teaching is about. I would expend every effort to find a way to make it make sense for you.

But, when the students don't care and they are the leading majority these days, well, I can't describe what it has done to my psyche. I really can't express it.


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12 Jan 2016, 5:42 pm

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Nope, all you gotta do is pass the exams. Most just get the information long enough to pass. Most do not try to build upon their lessons for a greater collective knowledge.
While I enjoyed education for the sake of education, you wouldn't believe how many people I heard talking about how it was really just their ticket to a job.

It's disheartening to know that much of the information just flushes through right after a test, and how little it meant in the first place to some, especially because I tried to take much of what I learned as important and enriching to who I was as a person.

are you liberal arts? I guess that is what separates such from the card-punching drones in other more mercenary fields, for example.

To whom is that address?...also not sure what liberal arts have to do with anything because my students were all professionals...Architects, Interior Designers, Product Designers, Animators, Video people....not a one of my students have ever been 'fine artists' or anything like that.


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12 Jan 2016, 5:45 pm

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I worked for a couple of years in warehouse with three Black guys. One day one one of them did a double take when looking at me, and said "you got [N word] ears!" Since I had a WTF look on my face he explained that "Whites have big ears, and Blacks have small ears, and you have small ears like a Black person". It opened up a whole new vast dimension of reality that I had never noticed before: that most of my family and most of my neighbors (who are of the Caucasian persuasion) had bigger ears than I have. And the Blacks have smaller ears than Whites (as a rule). And that I was more typical of Blacks in my ear size. :o The president does have big ears though.

all my ancestors had big ears, but all my siblings have small ears. go figure. :scratch: I have big ears. :oops:



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12 Jan 2016, 5:47 pm

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are you liberal arts?
Yes; I have a BA in Sociology and a minor in Psychology.

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But, when the students don't care and they are the leading majority these days, well, I can't describe what it has done to my psyche. I really can't express it.
It's disappointing, yes, you would hope enlightenment through learning, and just opening up your eyes to new experiences and understandings would be worth much more than that management position at X company. I can see education as a means to achieve a better job (nothing wrong with it per se), but I hate that so many abuse it for that singular purpose.


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12 Jan 2016, 5:48 pm

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Yigeren wrote:
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my guess is that people with compact ears are smarter and wealthier than average.


Yes! I am just going to go with this answer, because I want it to be true :D


I worked for a couple of years in warehouse with three Black guys. One day one one of them did a double take when looking at me, and said "you got [N word] ears!"

Since I had a WTF look on my face he explained that "Whites have big ears, and Blacks have small ears, and you have small ears like a Black person".

It opened up a whole new vast dimension of reality that I had never noticed before: that most of my family and most of my neighbors (who are of the Caucasian persuasion) had bigger ears than I have. And the Blacks have smaller ears than Whites (as a rule). And that I was more typical of Blacks in my ear size. :o

The president does have big ears though.

Huh...in all my years studying anatomy, ear size is not something I equated to any race,......I wonder what he has to say about ears....And, no, I'm talking about the high cartilage part, not the stretchy part.
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12 Jan 2016, 5:53 pm

Gamine wrote:
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are you liberal arts?
Yes; I have a BA in Sociology and a minor in Psychology.

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But, when the students don't care and they are the leading majority these days, well, I can't describe what it has done to my psyche. I really can't express it.
It's disappointing, yes, you would hope enlightenment through learning, and just opening up your eyes to new experiences and understandings would be worth much more than that management position at X company. I can see education as a means to achieve a better job (nothing wrong with it per se), but I hate that so many abuse it for that singular purpose.

thank you :) but I will say in defense of the mercenary types, since education is so costly here in amuurica, it seems natural for many to want to get a maximum return of their hard-got investment, the money situation sucks all the air out of the room in terms of intellectual concerns, for the most part. I suspect that if amuurica were more like the rest of the world in terms of affordability of education, you'd see less of the phenomenon you describe.



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12 Jan 2016, 5:55 pm

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I will go into the most minute detail, and I just assume that the reader/listener wants to know the details as well. :(

too much info is still always better than too little.

Ya, that is indeed true. I just wish more people thought that way.

I find too little info to be more frustrating than too much info that my lethargic self ends up having to wade through.

I find it annoying because it implies that someone is not motivated to A. Do the research or B. Dosnt care about the minor details.

but remember that not all aspies have your extended attention span, either. some of us really have to struggle with reluctant frontal lobes.

Ya, I guess I didn't consider that... I have a very good attention span and memory. But everyone is not me.

you can be thankful for your youthful strong supple cognitions :star: but beware that as one ages one has to do active system maintenance to keep it strong and supple.


Ok, I will be thankful then! :)


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12 Jan 2016, 5:59 pm

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...since education is so costly here in amuurica, it seems natural for many to want to get a maximum return of their hard-got investment, the money situation sucks all the air out of the room in terms of intellectual concerns, for the most part. I suspect that if amuurica were more like the rest of the world in terms of affordability of education, you'd see less of the phenomenon you describe.
You're right, and I'm like many other Americans in that I deeply lament the cost of my education (would definitely continue it if I weren't already in debt). It's difficult because the cost engenders a feeling of necessary financial return, without placing much value on the actual cultivation of self it can bring one. Good 'ol 'Merica.


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12 Jan 2016, 6:07 pm

Gamine wrote:
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...since education is so costly here in amuurica, it seems natural for many to want to get a maximum return of their hard-got investment, the money situation sucks all the air out of the room in terms of intellectual concerns, for the most part. I suspect that if amuurica were more like the rest of the world in terms of affordability of education, you'd see less of the phenomenon you describe.
You're right, and I'm like many other Americans in that I deeply lament the cost of my education (would definitely continue it if I weren't already in debt). It's difficult because the cost engenders a feeling of necessary financial return, without placing much value on the actual cultivation of self it can bring one. Good 'ol 'Merica.

the system encourages those who can't jump through all the hoops, financial and otherwise, to be autodidactic.



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12 Jan 2016, 6:11 pm

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...since education is so costly here in amuurica, it seems natural for many to want to get a maximum return of their hard-got investment, the money situation sucks all the air out of the room in terms of intellectual concerns, for the most part. I suspect that if amuurica were more like the rest of the world in terms of affordability of education, you'd see less of the phenomenon you describe.
You're right, and I'm like many other Americans in that I deeply lament the cost of my education (would definitely continue it if I weren't already in debt). It's difficult because the cost engenders a feeling of necessary financial return, without placing much value on the actual cultivation of self it can bring one. Good 'ol 'Merica.

the system encourages those who can't jump through all the hoops, financial and otherwise, to be autodidactic.
It's pretty much what I was up to the point of attending college (and after!), having quit high school due to stress, I spent a great deal of time reading classic literature and reading online about what I wanted to know. An excellent learning method if one has the curiosity. Many don't even use the internet for learning and it's right at their fingertips... : sigh :


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12 Jan 2016, 6:15 pm

"when the student is ready, the lessons will begin."



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12 Jan 2016, 7:43 pm

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...since education is so costly here in amuurica, it seems natural for many to want to get a maximum return of their hard-got investment.....
I agree, but most of them will not do what is required to get that. They just complain. Here is an example. Happened last year.

A bunch of students who resented taking a class that "They didn't need because it was beneath them" called me about a year later asking how to do things because, lo and behold, that useless class was actually being needed. Each one had a series of questions, I told them what PDF and page to review.

Not a damned one of them bothered to download and store the information for future use. They won't buy the book, they won't do the homework and many are rebellious to the point of idiocy.

So, the few that really value their education and work their asses off, yay!! For the ones who only see it as a 'store transaction' (I paid for this service) really miss the point.


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12 Jan 2016, 7:57 pm

Also hate:

Fake nails.
Going to the hairdresser.
Wearing makeup.
False eyelashes.
Spray tans.
Clothes shopping.
Gossiping and bitching about people.
Dressing in fussy, feminine clothing.
Daily 'accessorising'.
Wearing high heels.
Wearing perfume.
Chick flicks.
Getting excited about the latest diet, or celebrity break-up.
Diet shakes.
Fancy morning teas.
Tupperware and jewellery parties.
Gratuitous hugging.

You know, everything females around me seem to love.


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