I disagree...

I really think that some people just aren't good at learning.

Some people just need to be taught in different ways.
The school system is a good example of this, it's made for the majority of kids, not the minority. Which is why I don't do well in school. It's not that I'm unable to learn.

True, but I wouldn't call teachers that can't teach to everyone 'bad teachers'. There would be very few good teachers if we did.

I agree.
What Norma J is talking about is an insanely awesome teacher.

While on the one hand, human life should never be undervalued, honestly, my participation in my membership at the Sonic Youth message board has resulted in making me think less of humans in general.

I really love education too. I really love math but I hate my teacher. He moves so slow because our class as a whole is not very smart, and we are the advanced class! (not to mention he quotes Gilligan's Island and does terrible impresonations of people). I totally understand what you mean when you say that kids are giving up in school too much.

i love math too

LMAO(gilligan's island)---- Yeah I'm pretty good at math , though my freshman year I was in IMC because I goto another district( come from inner-city) to a suburb school which is only a bus ride away from my home.... and I took these class placement tests--- and I totally blanked on them, bombed the math test. I'm a sophmore in Algebra , but I have a 102.00... A+.

"I don't give a damn about the whole human race. You're nothing but a pack of cards."

Somebody wrote that a long time ago.

No telling with that guy. He was nuts.

My teacher has a horrible grading system. 40% of the grade is based on participation. Last time I checked I had 114% because I always go up to the board and I get A's on the tests. It is a retarded class. (Sophomore: Algebra IIE)

It is really good, but the way the grading system works is retarded, so it isn't like I'm the greatest motherfucking math geek in the whole school or anything. He hands out extra participation points like candy and they are worth a lot of the grade.

One time I went to take a test that had a time limit of 50 minutes. But to do a good job I had to get high first because getting high gives me special test-taking powers. When the test started I went to sharpen my pencil and next think I know the test is over and I'm still sharpening my pencil. Next time I'm only gonna get a *little* high. I need to start being a more responsible towel. Anybody wanna get high?

Most of them suck.

People are getting meaner by the year, I swear. Guy in a pickup almost cut me down in the crosswalk the other day, and then he gave ME the finger.

Well the worst humans are Fat Americans.

That's not very nice.

No I'm not, I'm just being realistic. Which people get mad faster when their food is not served on time? I feel like I should apoligize for it.

That would be the nice thing to do. Hungry fat people have needs. And feelings.

I have a feeling that was sarcasm, was it?

No. I think you should take it upon yourself to be nicer. To everyone, but maybe especially to fat Americans. It might spark a sort of spiritual awakening in yourself, you never know.

Yeah I don't know why I am an ass to people. Maybe being ignored for to long made me that way.

Well, if you find yourself talking to the mirror, that's a danger sign that you're becoming more than just an ass. "You talking to me? YOU talking to ME? You must be talking to me because I don't see anyone else here." That kind of thing.

Oh I hope I don't become like that. My rage is introverted, I can never explode, but do hear myself saying shite about annoying people.

Saying that education is one of the answers is all fine and dandy but then you should ask yourself what type of education you are thinking of.It is a fact that history books are re-modelled so as to favour certain political/economical ideas in any given country.Basically the sort of stuff that gets hijacked by conspiracy theorists creating more confusion than answering things.Oh and am i the only one who thinks that when you throw a random statement it is also your responsability to back it up with more researched information that can enrich and stimulate a discussion rather than bore somebody out of their wits?

I'm agree and it sucks .it's true for a big number of people!

coming from outer space i think the human race is fairly noobish

haha the masses are asses.

Education is an incredibly vague term. Do you perhaps mean the kind of education where you sit there trying to explain things to people who don't care/ won't listen, and ultimately question your own knowledge? Or another interpretation of education which means something like 'panacea'?

For my money, I'm moderately worried that the process of deterioration in the world will outstrip the efforts to impede it. And, capitalism being the dominant paradigm in the world today, it can only be capitalism which saves it. Apparently, BMW have invented a feasible but extortionate electric car.

Oh, and by the by, I've read oodles of literature on animal rights and that sort of stuff. I've taken classes, absorbed as much information as I can. Still could not give a flying shit about stupid fluffy ickle bunny wunnys.

I always thought of humans as the biggest plague to ever exist. It's us that's the reason that the world is deteriorating, and will be gone sooner than before. We rid the world of resources, produce greenhouse gasses, warfare, etc...

AND WE CREATE ROADKILL.

But really, It's so difficult to escape society and we just end up conforming to all these things that contribute to the deterioration of the world.

I agree with you I don't give a damn about saving a dolphin, I don't care if it is intertwined with my tuna in a can.

I mean more a teacher in life, not so much just in school. But that does apply too, of course.

If only we all had a personal Mr Myagi.

Edit: I'll ignore the animal rights comments otherwise we'll get into a ten page argument. I care about the animals.

i have to spread my legs for some other people before i spread em for you again. what a bore.

generally i think we should all be sterilized.

But not that funny.

work?

We're definitely selfish

awesome

Kind of short changing all the selfless people working to protect everything, aren't you?

If you removed insects from the planet Earth, every other species would die.

If you removed man from the Earth, every other species would flourish.

They should be driven into the sea...