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Love Franky. Thanks for letting us know about him!
Right? Heâs hilarious.
This is so good, itâs almost mean. I really wish I could hear the roommateâs desperate attempts to explain this to his date. And whether his date actually accepted it, or thought he was some weird dude with a shrine he was denying, for some reason.
I get my media recommendations the old fashioned way: by watching someone I follow on here* go on an unhinged reblog spree of media related content until I eventually decide to go âallright, whatâs all this thenâ
*tumblr, that is
I actually want to ask about this one-- is that a math joke that Iâm not getting?
If not, it reads to me as a kind of anti-intellectual, even childish humor, the kind that fails to see so much of education as not an attempt to get younger people to memorize what theyâre learning as it is to teach them how to learn, how to use their critical (and other kinds of) faculties.
Its the quadratic equation for solving the roots of a 2nd-order polynomial ax^2 +bx +c =0. The point I think is that while it is used a lot in high school most people wonât use it in their day-to-day life unless they enter an engineering field. This is somehow an allegory for adulthood
The other similar meme is about how people learn that the mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell but dont learn how to balance a check book
Yeah⌠ultimately, we can and should do both teaching kids to balance a checkbook and to solve quadratic equations⌠or about the powerhouse of the cell⌠or about literature, art, history, etc⌠Itâs always been weird to me how we decide to divide up the kinds of knowledge humans have produced into âuseful for most of usâ and âuseless except for some small class of people with leisure time to contemplate the nature of the universe.â Honestly, there isnât any reason why we canât all learn all the practical things we need to do to get by in life while also learning to appreciate the immense breadth of human knowledge, too.
I.e., train them how to think. But that is dangerous so we have to used lots of standardized tests that require memorization rather than thinking.
Gee thatâs not very randomly silly is it.
Time to start another fire.
