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The period was always called the start of the revolution in my history classes. Enlightenment... that almost sounds offensive...

It was called the Age of Enlightenment because there was a significant period of social, economic, political, and scientific advancement within it. It's a fitting name, though in my opinion calling it "An age of Enlightenment" is more appropriate than "The Age of Enlightenment", since the 20th Century was far more important in that regard.

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I remember learning about the Enlightenment. I just took it as another period of change like the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.

How can you not know what the Enlightenment was.

I know... Oklahoma must have poor history education...

Quote:I remember learning about the Enlightenment. I just took it as another period of change like the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution.

That's what it was... :)

And calling it the Enlightenment doesn't mean that it's the only period where people were enlightened of course, it just means that during that period people became more enlightened...

I've just never ONCE heard of that era EVER called that... EVER. Even if my history classes are lacking (which they ARE), I would think I'd have heard it called such elsewhere.

In other news, everyone is leaving this sinking ship of a state lately, and I'm hardly going down with it. I'm leaving this dump of a state as soon as possible myself. No state pride because there's nothing to be prideful in. I can't find a single thing about myself that I owe to this hunk of worthless stateitude (outside of stuff that applies to America in general anyway). You see, pride in my state left completely after a local fire department burned down. BURNED DOWN! I WISH that was a joke. In fact, I heard something similar on the Simpsons before, but this actually happened!

On schools in particular, teachers never go out of their way to teach anything aside from enough to get their pig fat (small) paychecks. I was never even taught what on Earth a GPA was until my mom finally told me. I took computer classes every single time I was in a school that offered one, trying to get an edge up on what I already knew I wanted to do. Alas, they would list goals at the start of each year like learning simple languages, and I'd end the year with NONE of those goals met. Every single computer class I ever took in public school always amounted to boosting typing speed and occasionally learing how to use a COMPLETELY outdated word processor (I'm talking old DOS stuff here), and they always tried justifying it too. Sadly enough, I boosted my WPM the most by going to this very message board. Finally, I'm not sure where they got the text books, but the science ones for instance taught frickin' MYTHS as facts! I was reading about how water spins one way in the north and the other in the south in my SCIENCE BOOK! Yeesh, that's a myth! That effect only has such a noticable effect on very LARGE spinning things like hurricanes! VERY annoying.

So, maybe it really is a common phrase for that era. I'm not denying that OK schools utterly SUCK. It's just fortunate that I was a nerd and was always reading science books on my own outside of school and playing around with computers with a dad who works with them for a living, otherwise I'd probably have the same doom everyone else who graduated with me had, the doom of realizing the only skills they learning in high school were just enough to get a fast food job, and the doom of them giving up on themselves and not even trying to get into college.

I'll only say that that's not the only source I had for info, and even the various stuff I've read online and seen on things like the History channel never called it as such, so that's why it surprised me. Not that my school didn't teach me that, they didn't even teach me english standard measurement conversion (I happened to be one of the lucky people who got taught metric instead because that particular year all the teachers had thought everything was going metric). Well, metric is a better system of measurement anyway at least, too bad standard is what US continues to use despite the superiority of metric (it's SO easy for instance, just divide or multiply by 10)

[QUOTE]I've just never ONCE heard of that era EVER called that... EVER. Even if my history classes are lacking (which they ARE), I would think I'd have heard it called such elsewhere.[/QUOTE

Then as I said your history classes were poor and you don't read much of any history about the 1700s.

Oh, it was an age of revolution, but the revolutions were because of enlightenment ideals so The Enlightenment is a much better name than "The Age of Revolutions" or something like that. And it's not exactly some technical term no one except history professors use or something like that...

As for Metric, they teach it for science class (I remember learning about centimeters in first grade) because science is obviously a lot easier to do with Metric... but that doesn't affect the fact that for everything else (just about) we use Standard...

I guess I'm fortunate we have a decent school system then... not the best ever or anything, but decent.

any history about the 1700s.

The 1700's? Dude, what's that---you must've just made that up. Is that supposed to be a century or something.

And 1800s. :)

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Quote:I guess I'm fortunate we have a decent school system then... not the best ever or anything, but decent.

Except in Biology.

I'm just glad I had the chance to get into a private school when I did. Interesting thing about private schools: The student population is a mix of punk kids who's parents confused private schools for a military acadamy, super rich kids, and middle class nerds who were sent to private school to get away from bullies and the like. I was one of the latter. As a strange result, the whole social grouping is very weird there and so people actually end up respecting each other, especially in a really small school where one can't afford to hate anyone.

I, too, attend a magnet school and it's a huge improvement over the public schools in the area. I've heard it's only gotten worse at those schools; it seems like there's a stabbing of some sort every three or so months at one of those schools. Here, almost everyone shares the same interests and views as each other and so fights are uncommon. The principal rarely has to use her authority for anything, but the disciplinary rules are much stricter here than at other schools. (One reason I flocked here.) For those reasons, fights very seldom occur. In fact, the last real fight at this school was about two years ago, and even it wasn't that big a fight; just ended with a broken nose.

Quote: Except in Biology.

I only took 10th grade normal Bio, not AP Bio in 12th... a lot of people took AP Bio but I don't like biology so I took Physics instead. :)

Did you sleep through it in 10th grade?

My 10th grade Biology teacher was the same as my 11th grade Environmental Science teacher, yet we rarely did anything in Environmental Science. Are people starting to no longer care about the environment or something?

I've found that the schools in the suburbs around here, especially in the north suburbs, which are considered the "rich area" of Chicago, are pretty good. The kids in the junior high I work at have a lot of resources at their disposal, and the teachers here are really good. The special ed. program also focuses on inclusion so the special ed. kids take as many normal classes as they can. The problem schools are those in the inner city where I have a friend who teaches. I'd talk more about it, but the bell is going to ring so I have to go.

I did just fine in Bio. But it has nothing to do with your "complaint".