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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

Good, you don't need smart phones in school

For anyone screeching that you do: No. You don't.

We've been without smart phones for millenia, literally, and we were fine without. You will be fine without.

[-] Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 8 points 3 months ago

we didnt have clean drinking water either, or daily showers, we lived without soap for millenia

[-] Olap@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Lol, we definitely have had clean drinking water for far longer than we have had dirty drinking water, thank the industrial revolution for that. And try skipping a shower for a day - you'll be fine. Soap also has a long history https://www.soaphistory.net/soap-history/ over 4000 years

So literally wrong on all three points. Perhaps you need to read more instead of doom scrolling and swapping nudes on your smartphone

[-] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm pretty sure there can be other bad stuff in water that existed before the industrial revolution

[-] Olap@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Sure, loads of sewage. But it also had smaller settlements, less people, and human waste was recycled more in times gone by too. Far more water was far more drinkable even 150 years ago

[-] LaggyKar@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

We've been without a lot of things for millennia

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

For me school was a great way to learn almost nothing of any use while occupying 11 years of my life with pointless time filing busywork that I hated every hour, minute and each and every eternal second of of. The only thing worse than school has been work and my consolation is that at least it's not forever!

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

You wish you would have been home schooled?

To be honest I'm disappointed we haven't seen more progress into "VR schools" yet. Where you are fully submerged into a learning experience. While your blood is constantly analyzed and drugs to increase concentration and energy levels are dispensed. Ok maybe not the last part.

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I wish it didn't waste most of my youth

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Well who doesn't once they get older haha. But I seriously wish I wouldn't have had a laptop or smartphone with keyboard and typed everything I learned as a question / answer flashcard. So I can review them. Some kind of flow inducing learning environment. Of course everyone learns differently, but I imagine there are huge gains possible with software and learning courses with current technology.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Aaahhh yes, you're one of those people that just knew English grammar right at birth. I envy you! I guess that things like history, math, geography, economics, computers, it all was just already in your head and you didn't need to lean anything. Wowowow

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

I'm not saying that, I'm saying most of that time was wasted. I got very little for the 20'000 hours and most of my youth. In fact the overwhelming majority of what I kmow I got from the internet after class.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

I don't know what to tell you, it sounds to me that that statement says more about your and or your specific school than in general.

Yeah, the teaching could have been better, everything can be better, that doesn't mean that everything is useless. You are talking to me by writing, you learned grammar yet you claim you got almost nothing. It's weird

[-] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Well I'm not saying everything is useless nor expressing an opinion about the sum of all students' experience, only my observation of the factory-like mass reproduction of teaching. It's one size fits all nature, it's lack of concerm for the subjective experience of students, it's time-filling dilution of knowledge, its inability to help anyone outside of normal but its obligation to drag them over the finish line anyway, its belief that people in front are somehow gifted and can wait for the rest to catch up or be put in gifted or delayed groups instead (without regards for the social consequences). Its narrow range of interests, its flattening incuriosity, its concern over production of employee rather than citizens. Its unending wasting of my youth back when minutes felt like hours. Its reality falling so far short of its promises.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry if your education sucked, I guess not everyone can win, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater

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