this is not a duet

i wonder how much healing that one xkcd comic did to the internet with saying “you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000″ when encountering a person who hasn’t been exposed to a popular or well known thing

you’re so right

“A Thread of Tips” by Shelby

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Bless you

College should cost two dollars and then when you graduate everyone apologizes for wasting your time

i am not joking we need to force teach cooking in schools. like. it is an essential thing for survival. do you know how easy it is to make things if you know even the bare bones shit about how cooking works. we need to teach teenagers how far you can take an onion and some other veggies it''s sad that people grow up not knowing how to prepare literally anything. and i'm not talking about oh this home ed class taught me how to make chicken nuggets at home i'm talking about learning the balancing of sweetness and acidity and saltiness and bitterness and shit like that and techniques and oil temperatures and how meats cook. it needs to be taught because it's literally not even that difficult and it matters so much

y’all I CANNOT

Okay so yes we need to put more money into education in the US but y'all this SPECIFIC line of thinking has much less to do with public education and everything to do with the evangelical war on science. This exact “earth age” rhetoric isn’t the result of dumb people, its being taught in Christian schools and touted in evangelical churches. Evangelical lobbies help pass laws that force states to teach creationism alongside evolution. Millions are spent every year by evangelical institutions to convince partitions that science is lying to them, to force them to belive the only place they can find truth is the church. Creationism is just another facet of that and acting like it just “Americans are dumb” rather than a pointed, purposeful campaign to keep people in a what amounts to a cult, is not oy disingenuous, its dangerous

Thank you, Uni.

Yeah as someone who was taught the earth was 6000 years old and believed it until I was like, 22: its a cultish weird thing you get shoved into your hea from a VERY young age. We had sunday school classes about how evolution was wrong when I was growing up; and about how feminism and even egaltarianism was wrong as well. Brainwashing doesn’t skip over you based on whether or not you are “smart”. 

Brainwashing doesn’t skip over you based on whether or not you are “smart.”

I havent seen anyone talk about this yet so im making a post. 

So lets say you’re researching something for a paper (or just for fun) and the research paper you want to read is behind a paywall, or the site makes you create an account first, or makes you pay to download, or limits you to only 5 free articles, or otherwise makes it difficult for you to read what you want.

do not fear! copy the link to the article

go to sci-hub.se         (the url is always changing so its best to check out whereisscihub.now.sh to find what the current url is)

slap the article link in there

bam! free access! 

Free the knowledge.

education is the domestication of human beings

My best/favorite teacher would literally take off the points for a question that the majority of the class got wrong from the total on the test and then hold a lesson on the topic because she realized if 90% of her students didn’t know the answer then she hadn’t done a good job teaching it.

I hate it when teachers take pride in having a large percentage of students get bad grades in their classes. It just means that students aren’t learning from you

Online academic resource JSTOR has announced it is making its database accessible to the public, amid the widespread closure of universities across the world due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The database, frequently used by university students for research and essay work, announced on Twitter today that it has made over 6,000 ebooks and over 150 journals accessible without the need for an online login.

Previously, students needed a university login to access these resources.

This is the first time that the database has been openly accessible to non-subscribers.

The database is also working to expand on the amount of free content available online to students accessing the database through their subscribed universities.

I don’t really know how to describe this feeling other than stressful, so I decided to draw it

Please let me draw and “sketchnote”

Ugh I know it

“If you’re drawing you’re not listening.” Absolutely untrue!! It’s ‘optimum arousal’. It’s why people can sing along to the radio while their driving to work and not worry about missing turns, but they need to turn down the music to navigate to a brand new address. Driving to work has become muscle memory and you actual need an outside stimuli to keep you’re brain paying attention. You need more brain power to navigate something new, so the music is now a distraction.

Same thing with people who listen better while doodling. If you’re an auditory learner you need something to occupy your vision and kinestics to optimally listen to what you’re supposed to learn. Auditory learners listen better when doodle- fact! 

(fyi- I’ve been a teacher for 16 years. I know what I’m talking about.)

Каждый имеет право на образование

ill never forgive the public education system

this post isnt a joke btw. there is no feeling worse than being mentally ill in highschool

I find it really interesting that the message of Monsters University is basically ‘you don’t have to go to college’ also and ‘dreams aren’t the only thing that can make you happy’, because Mike never becomes a scarer, not the kind he dreamed about in school. He’s Sulley’s manager/assistant/corner man, he’s not the guy jumping out of closets and flashing his teeth.

Mike risks his life, risks being trapped in the human world to prove his scariness–and he still never gets there. And he’s happy anyway.

How many stories give you a character who failed at their dream and are happy?

The kids who grew up watching Monsters Inc and all those other Disney/Pixar movies, all they’ve been hearing throughout their childhood is that what they really need is a Dream, a Passion, and then they’ll have it made, the outline of their life that they need to follow, all that’s left is effort. Except–it doesn’t really work like that, because there are 50-year-old waitresses and janitors and I can guarantee you this isn’t what they dreamed of when they were young, but they can still be happy. Because you are not your job, you are not a goal, you are not a failure if you don’t satisfy a childhood dream.

But everyone likes to pretend otherwise for some reason, and you’re left with a young adult whose image of college is that of a test which will define the rest of their life. Unlearning that image isn’t easy, because so many things reinforce it.

Except this movie.

It’s so interesting to me how much of it’s directed at the generation that’s grown up already. Hopefully its messages will linger with the new kids, too.

THERE IS NO SHAME IN DELAYING GOING TO COLLEGE/UNI THERE IS NO SHAME IN NEEDING EXTRA TIME IN COLLEGE/UNI THERE IS NO SHAME IN NOT GETTING INTO YOUR SCHOOL OF CHOICE THERE IS NO SHAME IN NOT GOING TO COLLEGE/UNI LIFE HAPPENS AND YOU WILL FIGURE SHIT OUT

I appreciate this post because even thinking about the things I’ve been through in college has been so heartbreaking and there’s so many ppl that make it seem like it’s all a breeze