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Stay curious‼️ 🤔
Real. Curiosity is such a desirable trait in folks.
But not in cats.
I found by high school the kids who said that (that hadn’t dropped out) moved onto a different argument by that age
Honestly, I know it ruins the joke, but I don’t think there’s as much overlap between the top and bottom groups as one may suspect
To be fair, most schools give those classes only out of obligation. Doing dumb calculations of mols and atomic masses in high school is definitely teaching kids to ask “why the fuck am I even doing this?”
Kids are wired to ask that, so what, basic chemistry knowledge is extremely useful.
I had a co-worker who decided to clean his bathroom and decided using a mix of chemicals would be better than just using one! Makes sense right?
He figured putting bleach and vinegar together was a smart move because it meant more cleaning all at once.
Don’t worry, he’s fine. He had a sore throat for a few weeks and the fumes singed the hairs off his hands when he was mixing it.
Dang! Good to not be absent minded, and actually check out the chemical equation, and consider the implications.
Good to be reminded, and learn from others mistakes.
Glad he survived mostly unscathed.
Yeah, like an German Comedian said, while the Teacher shows how an Morse communication works, the childrens with their Smartphones already are logged in his Pacemaker.
LOL I wish it were like that. The “kids and their superior grasp of technology.” That’s how it’s supposed to be. They’re supposed to be smarter than us.
Indeed, with desktops and internet forums it really did seem to be going that way…and then with smartphones becoming specialized as content consumption and attention-capture devices, the kids started going backwards.
Yeah, they can swipe their lil’ fingers and use instagram now, but so can a chimp. It’s designed that way.
Using files and folders or printing their homework? Relegated back to the esoteric and arcane arts. It’s tragic.
But this kids who do make a point to learn and teach themselves are doing incredible things.
So I guess, the average has dropped, and now we’re seeing more dramatic extremes on either end of the spectrum. 🤔
…/TED_talk lol
We learnt to titrate in later high school, played with acids and bases and crystallizing crystals in earlier high school
Sure we learnt to calculate mols of chemicals but we also learnt why — so you can balance an equation, so you have no more acid (for example) than you need.
I bailed out of chemistry though. I had a bad teacher in year 10 and moved to botany in yr 11 and 12 (working with scientists testing salt tolerance of eucalypts to address dryland salinity) (I went to a school that covered high school and college (years 7 to 12))
Internet contains the whole knowledge of humanity… the other 98% are influencers, ChatGPT posts, memes, cat photos, fake news, bots and flat earthers.
I thought Interned contained mostly porn :D
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Very wise
There is so incredibly much knowledge that isn’t on the internet.
I often share the story how (as the story concludes)
after I renounced formal education, I learned more in my first year alone with an internet connection and a library card, than I learned in the entire 14 years of formal education prior.
… I would not have so successfully done so had I not had the library card.
… And that was back when the internet was more like a library than like TV. And long before the big corporate search engines censored about 99% of the results, like they increasingly did over the past decade.
Do not over estimate the wealth of knowledge the internet has (even with LLMs now). Blind biases lurk. We do not know what we do not know, nor how much more there is to know. Easy to fall into arrogance. And what is arrogance really, but ignorance of our ignorance.
We are all ignorant, no one knows everything about everything, but ignorance becomes a problem when we do not know the difference between what needs to be contrasted and what does not.
‘Leave no child behind’ was/is a bad policy. You can’t call yourself a major league player when you’re still hitting from the tee.
I took the minimum amount of science classes in highschool. Lack of science education is less of a problem than teaching you how to sort through bullshit and analytical thinking. I basically think that our school system needs to stop focusing so hard on teaching things from the textbooks in an ever-changing world that’s cherry picked from an endless wealth of knowledge and focus more on learning how to be skeptical and check various sources and such. In school it seemed like research was always just a backseat to the goal, instead of the goal itself.
I always found science and history interesting even though i hated school.
Maths though, i always resented “you wont always have a calculator” … but now as im older i imagine kids today having a similar idea about “AI” and i can see that not ending well for anyone.
My highschool chemistry teacher almost got kicked out of her university for trying to pipette hydrochloric acid with her mouth. That’s who I want teaching chemistry, the crazy woman who knows what it means to fuck up, bad. Not some honor roll, life plan having baby bitch.
One of my high school’s two chemistry teachers was missing a hand… due to an (undisclosed) chemistry incident.
Tbf this does kind of imply we are doing something wrong. Maybe instead we should teach people to learn and judge information, rather than train them to take information presented to them at face value.
There are as many irrational science fanatics as there are religious fanatics.
Loooooool
I agree (e.g. think how many billions were thrown at string theory). Critical Thinking is an essential skill and must be included and encouraged from an early age.
Maybe many students are just trying trying to pass am exam or get a degree. There’s far too much to know about too many things to expect everyone to have even a basic understanding of everything. Knowing how to spot bullshit (aka critical thinking) is a lot easier than becoming an expert in every subject.
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As a kid I always thought a lot of stuff taught was like, duh, so obvious. It took being thrown in the adult world to see hmm… I guess… not obvious enough???
I was all in on chemistry in highschool. But then they bait-and-switched. Instead of educating on chemistry broadly, they trained us to be drones of the petrochemical industry.
That was merely the first time (of 3 times) when the education system bait-and-switched, going from one course, promising to extend and deepen the education in the following year, only to replace it with training on some narrow specific portion that I was disinterested in.
After renouncing formal education, I learned more in my first year alone with an internet connection and a library card than I had in the entire 14 years of formal education prior.
Would be nice if the education system really were an education system.
Vaccines could cause autism since they contain immune system steroids, and should probably not be given to people who haven’t reached adulthood. Anyone who is a decent mother has probably thought about this. GMOs can also be dangerous although not likely, outside of fats, your bodies tends to break down other things. Flat earth is a troll. Climate change is real but the solutions people have for dealing with it are stupid, annoying, intrusive, and impractical. Cars get shittier year after year because of the stupid laws, meanwhile the human population is exploding.
Also don’t tell me I don’t understand the science because I do. I just figure out things myself instead of trusting corporations and social media companies. People who unironicly think that vaccines are safe did not form that conclusion by, “understanding the science”. They came to that conclusion because some other liberal corporatists told them too. It is true vaccines will cause the cow herd to be a bit more resilient, but also if that comes at the cost of the brain and mental health, then no that’s fucking stupid. Sure to corporations having bodies is probably the best thing for them. They need as many workers as possible, but from a human standpoint, there is nothing more valuable than your mind. Don’t waste your children’s minds to make cattle for corporations.
Vaccines could cause autism since they contain immune system steroids…
Source, LIAR?
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I am a researcher…
So am I! Except I’m not full of shit!
lol, no source! What a maroon.
Prime example of lying liars continuing to lie. Wonder why measles is making a comeback? Look no further!
There is some evidence that autism is a combination of hereditary natural variation and diet
The evidence of diet is many anecdotes that some ancient food diets make autistic children less autistic (moves them closer to neurotypical)
so… you’re blaming children?
“Adults” who act like children.
This whole thread is a box of rocks.
