• 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    The whole idea of any educational facility not be indoctrinating is honestly just fucking stupid from the start. You can, maybe, sort of, look at STEM objectively and even then whenever it hits “doing anything in real life” it gets political, everything else is just that from the start.

    Counterexample to your bad thing here, I once had an english teacher who I proposed the wildest theories about a book we were reading to and she was like “…well, neither me nor the “scientific” community agrees, but I don’t think any of your arguments are realistically refutable, A+” and that was when I was like “Oh damn I can interpret things” instead of “this whole thing is a waste of time unless I submit to whatever authority”

    Shout out Mrs. S, I don’t think you know what you were doing in that specific scenario but you fell ass-backwards into the coolest possible response

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      3 months ago

      Yea that was an outlier for me too.

      I had the polar opposite teacher who was an awesome sweet hippy lady who wore birks and a sundress everyday even when it was -20 and snowing and the two classes I took with her were about engineering disasters like bhopal and how the most vulnerable ultimately pay the price for engineering laziness or oversight and another class where we did a “model UN but for the paris accord” that ended up with *every other country telling America to fuck off and stop being so hypocritical and siding with China.