left work early to go to a flat viewing and when i got off the train, the flat viewing turned out to be cancelled.
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Reblogged polarcell
It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.
There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!
I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.
He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”
“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”
Several us nodded.
He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.
“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”
“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”
“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”
“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”
“No, of course not.”
“Then why lift weights?”
“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.
“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”
And I’ve never forgotten that.
THIS.
When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one. Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.
Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to. But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.
History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from. It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely. Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.
Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction. But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.
The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it. (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)
I would also add that giving as broad an education to as many as possible gives everyone the opportunity to follow a career that might use calculus. Or colour theory. Or electromagnetism. Or [insert specialism here]. If we gatekeep specialisms, those careers are only available for the ones who were privileged enough to have the background training. That’s why Classics as a degree subject is full of private school kids: it’s not offered in state education.
#i hate this shit but eSPeCIALLY when it comes from other adults. and especially teachers#it's 100% worse now than back in the day when people just did what school said and then moved on#education at its core is not about 'learning stuff you need and will use every day of life'#think about back in the day when only rich people could learn and they knew shit about the planets and spoke french and latin#knowing a second or third language might not be practically useful but it's more fulfilling than knowing only 1#your job might not require you to know trig but you might feel really fucking good about yourself if you find the sinus value for an angle#students will complain about maths but at the same time mention how much they love it WHEN THEY GET IT#the point is. humans love to know shit. we love to learn shit#would love to know which maths concepts are 'so outdated they're not even used anymore' when like#most of maths is several thousands year old#but yeah ok op. sure#i tell kids weekly that like. maths takes time. i was not an a student in maths as a kid#i am good at maths now bc i've been at it for like. 20 years#your brain might not be fully mature for x concept at y age but that doesn't mean maths is pointless#your maths teacher might have been really bad at explaining something but that doesn't mean maths is pointless#your parents might have fucked your maths confidence for life by saying you guys 'just aren't maths people'#none of this means maths is pointless or that you could not as an adult master complex maths#i was a mid range student throughout middle and high school#but when i did linear algebra at age 27 i fucking loved all the very very abstract shit. like matrices? i will never use them#might never even teach those. i fucking love them#3 dimensional geometry and projecting shit onto the 'plane' ? that's my JAM#i'll never use it in the real world but i feel fucking sick when i can do the calculations#just like when i'm at the gym and lift something heavy or when i make food that tastes yummy#hope that helps
Reblogged carebearcody
The most important person that you're gonna meet today. This is Dana. She's our charge nurse. She is the ringleader of our circus.
Katherine LaNasa as DANA EVANS THE PITT (2025—)
Reblogged sleevebuscemii
#i'm going to have so much fun hatewatching this but#i like all of them individually but this casting? atrocious#i don't know enough about the beatles men to know if they have/had thick accents but like. the scouse is gonna be so funny#i didn't like barry's scouse in saltburn so like.#this'll be interesting#harris john lennon............. is...........wild#this whole project feels equally cashgrabby and oscarbaity#showed mum that group photo and she literally couldn't guess who was gonna play whom#mum: what the fuck is john lennon-y about harris ??????
Reblogged donetbhlmao
watched the pitt. here is my contribution. santos and langdon my absolutely beloved workplace enemies who refuse to acknowledge they are the same person in slightly different fonts
Reblogged ahmed-almeshal1
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i hope you are sharing meals with the people you love, for me as of today, i only hope kholood ( @kholoodpals ) and her family can have food at the very least, because to know them safe and healed seems a wonder now, as we all heard of the end of the ceasefire, and we knew it for the lie it was, and we saw how aid was used as both hope and cruelty.
through this the true hope that palestinians have had is us, people who can care where kt matters, when it matters, and as it should matter or so i hope. this hasn't changed, and i know that in strife aiding seems just to live in suffering, but i hope for one day for everyone to find joy in helping, when the cruelty of a genocide doesn't hang over us.
please know your efforts are not just for kholood, but also her baby, her husband, her brother and her mother, all of them need us, and we can help them, i know money is not always possible, but sharing always is, i ask you as well to try to reach out beyond here, and also, to kholood if you have the time, a few words are enough to get through a day sometimes right? hell, sometimes just sitting down and eating together is enough, please reach out, help kholood now, donate and share as soon as possible 🙏🏽
there's also a link for chuffed if anyone can donate or prefers to aid there:
thanks for helping if you've done so, and hope we can hold your hands in the future here as well, we do need each other and so does kholood's family then.
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Reblogged sixth-light
i hate this weird trend in fandom where subtext is seen as a Bad Thing and is only done if the creators are too cowardly to commit to showing something. i hate to break it to you but nuance and layers are what make stories interesting, if you have no subtext then you have a very flat story
sometimes things are subtext because they don’t quite fit the tone of the story, or because the story isn’t about that (and if they showed it outright they would have to take time to explore it), or sometimes the characters aren’t ready to face it, or sometimes subtext is just the right choice for this specific story, or SOMETIMES it’s just fun and interesting to have underlying themes and implications!!!!
also just because it’s subtext doesn’t mean it’s not deliberate or not meant to be part of the story. “well if they WANTED it to be canon they should’ve SAID SO” some of us can understand implications. some of us enjoy thinking about the media we consume and don’t just want everything handed to us on a silver platter. “wow i can’t believe the writers didn’t even realize what this implies” im going to beat you to death with hammers
Reblogged kutputli
Your honour, I admit that I do have a superiority complex over not watching Disney "live action" remakes, but in my defense, I am right
the past 20 hours have been off the wall bonkers. i feel like i've gone through a week's worth of frustration, stress, and emotions in less than a day??
#i woke up at 1 and had to vom#slept like shit#found out my medication will be near impossible to get until july (temporarily solved that)#coworkers were annoyING me before we even got to work with. annoying illogical questions#then when i came upstairs to supervise a reading exam (out of the kindness of my heart) i was expected to make critical decisions#even though i literally don't teach that fucking subject!! i don't fucking know what's allowed or not!!! i know for MY subjects!!! gd!!!!#and then i had to run around to find shit they should have prepped already!! there wasn't enough usbs. NOT MY PROBLEM!!!!#midway through the exam i found out by accident that one of my students is being moved. today. 'in 2 hours.'#i could literally have not heard and then she'd have moved and thought we didn't give a fuck bc we didn't say bye..........#so then i had to spend an hour comforting the friendship group#and theN i had to have several hours of maths lessons. and THeN#my annoying coworker had more annoying dumb questions about next week's exam logistics which. again.#is not my fucking responsibility!!! i'm responsible only for maths this year. and yet ?????#my brain is mush#i could easily do all the exam logistics if i could handle them alone. only my brain. nobody's dumb questions getting in the way.#tomorrow we need to make sure the para who was assigned to the student who moved.... can still stay in MY class.#the para is worried she'll be moved. my class of 8th graders are worried she'll disappear. i NEED her to stay.#so i gotta talk to my principal asap. i hate talking to him. but i should be able to fix this considering my sick leave for depression etc#i need her for my mental health. hello ???#anywho. time to eat strawberries and watch survivor nz
my brother, dad of 3yo and 1yo, has been texting me and mum all week to get us to watch adolescence and he and my sister-in-law are pacing themselves and still have ep 4 left bc it's a hard watch and he said 'am i gonna cry a lot ?????'
my uncle, dad of a 12yo and 14yo, replied "yeah, it was good, but i would have wanted 5 more episodes of the story" when mum asked him if he'd seen it
Reblogged storiesofthestreetmp3
i love when you read/watch an influential piece of storytelling and you're like ohhhhhh ok i see. so everyone else was copying this guy's homework