2004-08-03 18:00:01
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18:00:01 | Lucifer | a look under the covers at the dark reality of the education system |
18:00:05 | Lucifer | (to paraphrase) |
18:00:09 | localroger | My immediate feeling after reading TUHoAE was I'VE BEEN ROBBED. |
18:00:17 | Lucifer | how so? |
18:00:31 | localroger | I figure of about 5 years of my life. |
18:00:50 | prometheus | prometheus (~duane@[death to spam].c-67-172-42-48.client.comcast.net) has joined #virus |
18:01:09 | localroger | Equivalent to a prison sentence for a fairly serious offence like rape. And it even felt like being in prison. |
18:01:20 | Daraknor | i figure i could have done everything from highschool by age 8 easily. in the society i envision there is a clear roadmap to have masters degree by age 16 |
18:01:22 | Lucifer | I imagine prison would be worse |
18:01:40 | Daraknor | the sex in prison would be less diverse |
18:01:57 | Lucifer | is the goal of school to get through it as quickly as possible? |
18:02:00 | localroger | Depends on who you are, and what prison. My childhood was extremely unpleasant. Daraknor, I went to a sex-segregated school from 5th grade on, so no advantage there. |
18:02:33 | Lucifer | which sex were you segregated with? ;) |
18:03:01 | Daraknor | Lucifer: if assimilation of information is necessary to enter society, yes. If you need logical skills, no I'm just claiming we should have the option of early but prestigious escape |
18:03:04 | localroger | I think with little sweat I could have done all HS work by 12, and a BS by 17. That's without hard work. The system made it much harder, because of the boredom. |
18:03:19 | Lucifer | certainly |
18:03:32 | Lucifer | I accelerated one grade without effort |
18:03:41 | Daraknor | i was prevented from skipping grades |
18:03:47 | localroger | I skipped 7th; it wasn't enough, and I was only allowed to do that because of a *cough* behavior problem. |
18:03:51 | Lucifer | if I had a private tutors I could have raced through |
18:03:51 | Daraknor | the system wanted to earn their mone on me |
18:04:04 | goomba | gee its 8 and i missed most of the chat ;) |
18:04:16 | Lucifer | no, we just started |
18:04:16 | rhino | i made good use of the schoold time to do other thiongs |
18:04:21 | Daraknor | a female friend of mine tutored a 4 year old up to pre algebra in 4 months |
18:04:22 | localroger | I had a private tutor. My father is a Ph.D. physicist. By the age of 12 I was taking all his non-calculus college-level tests and regularly doing better than any of his real students. |
18:04:44 | localroger | But they didn't want me to skip ahead because it would "screw up my development." |
18:05:02 | Lucifer | right, common knowledge |
18:05:12 | Daraknor | i would have preferred to be screwed up by my own choices |
18:05:39 | localroger | Well, it did more harm than good. Better screwed up and smart than screwed up and bored out of your mind and dysfunctional. |