zamie
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Australia
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Studies: English*, German
| Message 49 of 54 12 August 2010 at 12:06pm | IP Logged |
johntm93 wrote:
kidshomestunner wrote:
Nobody has ever explained the point of writing an essay to me and that nobody ever
responded to my "did you read all the books in your bibliography???" email... And then
you spend most of your younger years studying subjects you just know you will never
need.
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I have to agree so much with this.
Hell, if they'd give me a free period instead of making me take science or English
(my English is fine, thank you, I don't need to take a class in it) I could study
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The English classes i assume your talking about don't teach you English.. They teach
you how analyse things and draw subliminal and metaphorical meaning from language. A
skill that only masters of a language possess. Also, can you write a best selling
novel, maybe, but i doubt it.
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zamie
Newbie
Australia
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Studies: English*, German
| Message 50 of 54 12 August 2010 at 12:15pm | IP Logged |
kidshomestunner wrote:
jasoninchina wrote:
I'm a little surprised by the recent
comments about education.Do you really believe your education (or parts of it) were a
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I think the fact that so many incompetent people have university degrees shows that it is
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Yep I agree, I know a lot of people who get degrees just for the prestige. It tends to
happen a lot in the social science subjects.
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johntm93
Senior Member
United States
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Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 51 of 54 12 August 2010 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
jasoninchina wrote:
| I'm a little surprised by the recent comments about education.Do you really believe your education (or parts of it) were a waste? |
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Yes. Parts of it. I would like to be an economics or finance major in college (with language study on the side), why the hell should I sit through a precalculus class where I learn how to find the angles of a triangle within a circle? How is that useful?
Kids exit high school knowing more about some stupid math formula they'll most likely never use than how to handle personal finances.
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johntm93
Senior Member
United States
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Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 52 of 54 12 August 2010 at 9:49pm | IP Logged |
zamie wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
kidshomestunner wrote:
Nobody has ever explained the point of writing an essay to me and that nobody ever
responded to my "did you read all the books in your bibliography???" email... And then
you spend most of your younger years studying subjects you just know you will never
need.
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I have to agree so much with this.
Hell, if they'd give me a free period instead of making me take science or English
(my English is fine, thank you, I don't need to take a class in it) I could study
languages or something. |
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The English classes i assume your talking about don't teach you English.. They teach
you how analyse things and draw subliminal and metaphorical meaning from language. A
skill that only masters of a language possess. Also, can you write a best selling
novel, maybe, but i doubt it. |
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Correct, some schools call it "language arts."
I could care less to learn what little they have to teach, I don't mind reading (I like it) but I hate reading something just to answer questions or make a presentation. It ruins the book.
Although, I did write a paper last year that spurred my interest a little in the area it was written on.
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darkwhispersdal
Senior Member
Wales
Joined 851 days ago
113 posts - 11 votes
Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Russian, Turkish
| Message 53 of 54 12 August 2010 at 10:36pm | IP Logged |
johntm93 wrote:
darkwhispersdal wrote:
johntm93 wrote:
aarontp wrote:
brian91 wrote:
Arekkusu wrote:
brian91 wrote:
It is one of the
greatest tragedies
of our generation how much of our time is
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We waste time with entertainment, which is perhaps better than how we used to waste
time because we had no
other efficient alternative (no washing machine, no dishwasher, no car, no fridge,
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Yeah, that's true. Though a lot of people my age see ''entertainment'' as watching
television for five hours per day
plus instead of reading a book, talking to people etc so I guess we still have a long
way to go. Things were a lot
more difficult in times gone by though, as you say, so television doesn't seem as bad I
guess.
At the moment I'm watching Blackadder again (got a boxset in London). Before that I was
watching How I Met Your
Mother in French, so it felt very progressive. :D I can't remember the last time I
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I find people often don't even talk anymore. They "text" one another. Blah. |
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Texting's easier a lot of the time :P |
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I hate texting it really irritates me if they want to talk to me they can phone or even
better come and see me |
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I'm going to take a chance and guess you aren't a
teenager? |
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I'm 25 I hated texting as a teenager :-P
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patuco
Diglot
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Gibraltar
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| Message 54 of 54 12 August 2010 at 11:56pm | IP Logged |
I see that we're back to the excessive nested quotes. Please refrain from this in future. Thanks.
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