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> I suspect that these children have taught me a great deal more than I have taught them. Very great statement. I've done volunteer work before and have come

> I suspect that these children have taught me a great deal more than I have taught them. Very great statement. I've done volunteer work before and have come to the same realization.

wibkemarianne 13y ago
This is an insult to the intelligence of the children. You're claiming that they are so poor at learning, and you are so superior at learning, that all of their learning combined is dwarfed by the learning of a single man--you. Any teacher who learns more than his collective students is a failed teacher. Period. Such a teacher's life has been worthless--this is a mathematical fact. Being proud of gaining more from your volunteer service than did the people you are supposed to be helping is not something to brag about. It is morally reprehensible and brings to mind all of the criticisms of poverty tourism that have so often been levied against your type of exploiter. Usually, the money that wealthy poverty tourists spend on travel would be thousands of times more efficient had they just donated that money. You are gleeful that you profited more from your volunteer work than the supposed recipients did. Your self-reported tale of exploitation is disgusting.
- dinkumthinkum 13y ago
  You're taking a little kind of cliche platitude and running in a weird direction with it ... really weird ...
  - wibkemarianne 13y ago
    Oh no! Someone on the internet says my highly upvoted analysis is.... "weird"! What a worthless comment.
    - vidarh 13y ago
      You seem to be trying very hard to start off with getting off on the wrong footing on HN given how confrontational you are being. Your "highly upvoted analysis" can't possibly be that highly upvoted given the low karma of your account.
      - wibkemarianne 13y ago
        I get a lot of downvotes on other comments so it balances out. But gee! Thanks for the advice! You're like my HN mom, looking out for my karmic well being with genuinely caring advice that is meant to improve my reception on HN. Oh no wait. That's not what you're doing at all. You just want to insult me because you disagree with me, but you also want to follow the "Be civil" rules, so you disguise your insults in passive aggressive "advice" How dumb do you think people are? You really believe people can't see through your benevolent authority act? Who made you the HN ombudsman anyway? Get off your fucking pedestal.
- ececconi 13y ago
  Not at all. It's praising the view that the children have on the world which is different than yours.
  - wibkemarianne 13y ago
    Your sentence doesn't even parse. I have no idea what you're saying.
    - vidarh 13y ago
      If you have problems parsing even that simple statement, perhaps you should re-evaluate your decision to write multiple paragraphs tearing apart the same commenters earlier short comment, as you appear to have problems understanding the contents of his writing.
      - wibkemarianne 13y ago
        Kindly go shove your fake politeness up your mom's ass.

> I suspect that these children have taught me a great deal more than I have taught them. Very great statement. I've done volunteer work before and have come to the same realization.

wibkemarianne 13y ago

This is an insult to the intelligence of the children. You're claiming that they are so poor at learning, and you are so superior at learning, that all of their learning combined is dwarfed by the learning of a single man--you. Any teacher who learns more than his collective students is a failed teacher. Period. Such a teacher's life has been worthless--this is a mathematical fact. Being proud of gaining more from your volunteer service than did the people you are supposed to be helping is not something to brag about. It is morally reprehensible and brings to mind all of the criticisms of poverty tourism that have so often been levied against your type of exploiter. Usually, the money that wealthy poverty tourists spend on travel would be thousands of times more efficient had they just donated that money. You are gleeful that you profited more from your volunteer work than the supposed recipients did. Your self-reported tale of exploitation is disgusting.

dinkumthinkum 13y ago
You're taking a little kind of cliche platitude and running in a weird direction with it ... really weird ...
- wibkemarianne 13y ago
  Oh no! Someone on the internet says my highly upvoted analysis is.... "weird"! What a worthless comment.
  - vidarh 13y ago
    You seem to be trying very hard to start off with getting off on the wrong footing on HN given how confrontational you are being. Your "highly upvoted analysis" can't possibly be that highly upvoted given the low karma of your account.
    - wibkemarianne 13y ago
      I get a lot of downvotes on other comments so it balances out. But gee! Thanks for the advice! You're like my HN mom, looking out for my karmic well being with genuinely caring advice that is meant to improve my reception on HN. Oh no wait. That's not what you're doing at all. You just want to insult me because you disagree with me, but you also want to follow the "Be civil" rules, so you disguise your insults in passive aggressive "advice" How dumb do you think people are? You really believe people can't see through your benevolent authority act? Who made you the HN ombudsman anyway? Get off your fucking pedestal.
ececconi 13y ago
Not at all. It's praising the view that the children have on the world which is different than yours.
- wibkemarianne 13y ago
  Your sentence doesn't even parse. I have no idea what you're saying.
  - vidarh 13y ago
    If you have problems parsing even that simple statement, perhaps you should re-evaluate your decision to write multiple paragraphs tearing apart the same commenters earlier short comment, as you appear to have problems understanding the contents of his writing.
    - wibkemarianne 13y ago
      Kindly go shove your fake politeness up your mom's ass.