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Most school teachers are full of it, but they don’t mean to. They are simply low level clerics in the church of truth. They recite a very lossy account of what
by nemo44x 6y ago
Most school teachers are full of it, but they don’t mean to. They are simply low level clerics in the church of truth. They recite a very lossy account of what they were ordained with at a likely low level institution. It’s not really their fault - people need jobs, the ministry needs repeaters, and the pay is bad.
Your teachers weren’t the disease - they were just a symptom.
- bosswipe 6y agoThis idea of a shadowy unified people that control everything is a poor way to try to make sense of the world.
- nemo44x 6y ago“They” refers to the teachers in this context. Sorry to assume you spoke English as a first language.
- chowned 6y agoWho hurt you? Seriously, what's your problem?
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- dang 6y agoIf you continue to post personal attacks and name-calling like "You are full of it" to HN, we will ban you. We've already had to warn you about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nemo44x 6y agoUnderstood and I didn’t mean to go about it that way. Was meant in jest - but I understand that it was not good for discussion to insult a community member this way. Thank you for the warning.
- flatline 6y agoI mean, the HS teacher that told me this had a masters in Mech E. Or so he claimed, hmm...
- smnrchrds 6y agoHe must not have been the top of his class if he had ended up a HS teacher. Which is actually kinda sad. Pay and working conditions for teachers shouldn't be so that being a teacher is regarded as a failure.
- nemo44x 6y agoIs it regarded as a failure? Teachers in public schools work part time for 25 years and get a scaling pension they “negotiated” with the politicians their union dues elected. I’d call them fantastic winners. Grifters? Sure. But certainly not losers.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Teachers in public schools work part time Typically full-time and usually year round, though some work seasonally for about 3/4 year (but still full-time), with commensurately reduced annual pay.
- nemo44x 6y agoYou are simply full of it. Public school teachers are booked for around 180 days of teaching + admin work. I read my tax bill. This is like 36-38 (38 being generous) weeks of work per year. It’s 3 months off.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> You are simply full of it Except your calculations support exactly what I said. > It’s 3 months off. Yes, it's typically 3 months off if they don't work summer session in a traditional schedule. Which most who are able to (there are reduced available positions) do. Hence, the full-time but, for some, 3/4-year seasonal full-time that I stated.
- havelhovel 6y agoIf only teachers were as intelligent and wise as HN’s anonymous commenters.
- yetihehe 6y agoIf only all people were as intelligent and wise as HN’s anonymous commenters (I wish I would too). When you think about this, it's almost like instagram but for knowledge.
- gaustin 6y agoI love this veiled (but true) insult. That is the core of my love-hate relationship with this site.
- everdrive 6y agoNo disagreement with your jab. It's easy to be right once, when you get to choose whether you participate. If you had to speak for hours a day, days a week, you'd certainly be wrong some good amount of the time.
- lordnacho 6y agoThis is a great analogy. The teachers in school are not there to teach you the most detailed model of the world, they are mostly there to make you exercise your model critiquing ability on some toy models that are simple to deal with. Your math teacher might draw a blank when you tell him he taught you an inconsistent notion of limits in calculus, and your physics teacher will certainly admit that there are holes in the high school version of gravity. But the point wasn't to tell you the exact version of what we know, it was to make you think about how models work.