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Category: Education

Finland’s Schools Aren’t Special

Posted on February 26, 2017 by cgill1138

Finland is an exotic, far-away country in the eyes of Americans; a nation we erroneously classify as Scandinavian and imagine as bedecked with reindeer. Beyond this, we know two things about the Finns: they invented Nokia, and they have the world’s best schools. Well, you know, except for the Asians, but they’re in their own…

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How Chocolate Milk Epitomizes Corruption in Academia

Posted on April 10, 2016 by cgill1138

Academia is absolutely rife with corruption, and it’s a dirty, disgusting secret I’d love to let you in on. Somewhere along the lines, a maternal authority figure should have advised you against crying over spilled milk. It’s a great little aphorism of stoicism, but in the case of an incident at the University of Maryland,…

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Order of Operations is a Lie

Posted on February 14, 2016 by cgill1138

If you know anyone over 40 on the internet, you have probably come across some image with literally hundreds of thousands of likes/comments/tweets/whatever: What is 2 x 2 + 3 x 4 ? 99% of people won’t get this! There are only 5 actual comments, made tends of thousands of times over: 40 28 16…

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Most Kids Are Too Busy to Destroy Society

Posted on December 28, 2015 by cgill1138

The Kids These Days TM are making demands on their colleges. They use a lot of hashtags, so it ends up circulating through to the media. From there, we go on to judge the opinions of 18-22 year olds and come up shocked when not all of them seem to be completely well thought out….

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You Know How College Costs A Ton of Money…

Posted on December 5, 2015 by cgill1138

You know how college costs a ton of money, and you need a bachelor’s and 3 years of experience to work some piece of shit job, and how a lot of young people seem to be delaying major “adult” purchases because they’re strapped for cash? It’s because the economy is doing well. Sic. That is…

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When Are We Ever Going to Use This? Probably Never, TBH.

Posted on December 5, 2015 by cgill1138

“When are we ever going to use this?” asks a beleaguered middle schooler as she stares morosely at her algebra homework drowning in a sea of red ink. There are any number of canned responses to give to this question, an inevitability in the classroom. I sigh as I look over her sheet. We’ve covered…

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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Posted on December 5, 2015 by cgill1138

This is a question asked by adults to children everywhere, without the slightest realization of how completely insane that is. Most people, let alone children, have no idea what they want for dinner. But what they plan on doing for 40 or so years of their life day-in and day-out is apparently an easy question….

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Millennials to Blame for Incompetent Universities, Apparently

Posted on December 5, 2015 by cgill1138

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nation-wimps/201510/where-did-colleges-go-wrong The author of a book title A Nation of Wimps and the author of an Atlantic article entitled The Coddling of the American Mind had a conversation bitching about young people in academia and put it in Psychology Today. That probably suffices as a tl;dr of the article, actually. I wonder how long I…

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I Fucking Love Phrenology

Posted on December 5, 2015 by cgill1138

“Uh, sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery a hundred-sixty years ago.” – Mr. Smithers “Of course you’d say that; you have the brainpan of stagecoach-tilter.” – Mr. Burns To get to the part where I talk about phrenology, skip the first 1,600 words or so. On the off chance someone over 30 stumbled upon this,…

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