10th February 2004, 2:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 10th February 2004, 2:26 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
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I ever took in public school always amounted to boosting typing speed and occasionally learing how to use a COMPLETELY outdated word processor (I'm talking old DOS stuff here), and they always tried justifying it too.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)
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)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)