Comments on: What I Know About Math, Science, History, Government, and Language

By: qarzul

qarzul — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:18:38 +0000

No one said that came in the package..

By: Lalala

Lalala — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:26:58 +0000

Hooking up words and phrases and clauses.

By: Mequiteer

Mequiteer — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:05:19 +0000

Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?

By: Somebody

Somebody — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:51:34 +0000

^^this

By: Ravanclaw Borg

Ravanclaw Borg — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:11:23 +0000

I loved that show, and still do in a nostalgic way. And then there’s Wishbone for literature, and Cyberchase for math, etc. I can’t believe how much you can learn just by watching kids shows!

By: Ana

Ana — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:17:56 +0000

Yup, americans.

By: Lalala

Lalala — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:59:58 +0000

And so wonderfully modest, too!

By: ummmmm

ummmmm — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:29:37 +0000

If your modern history understanding is based off of call of duty, perhaps you and I are from different worlds.. In my world, russia didn’t invade, and hiroshima and nagasaki are the only two nuclear bombs that i know have been dropped… (i know you prolly weren’t referring to modern warfare, more likely, rather, medal of honor, but the thought of that made me laugh…)

By: Really really.

Really really. — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:24:02 +0000

Congrats on having a good experience in public schooling. Here’s the thing: Overall, you are correct, our schools really aren’t THAT bad. (we are quite far behind in math and science, compared to other countries, but if a student excels, there ARE ways for them to progress at a faster pace.) The problem, (in your case, not a problem) doesn’t lie (for the most part) with the school system. It lies in the homes, the environment provided by the parents of these children. If it weren’t for my parents pushing me, and making sure I kept up on my homework, I certainly would have fallen victim to numerous distractions, and learned nothing.

Further exploration of the environment idea. It was programs like Bill Nye, seseme street, the magic school bus, nova specials, and even those high school science lecture videos that used to be on PBS from 10-noon, that made me interested in science and math, and gave me more motivation to apply myself in these areas in school. Maybe I didn’t learn 99% of what i know today from those shows, but I can say with honesty that if not for those shows, I might have learned a much smaller percent of it at school.

By: King Graphjam

King Graphjam — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:19:45 +0000

The thing about this statement is, common sense isn’t so common. It should be called rare sense.

The way I see it, common sense and “smarts” ususally come in a 2-in-1 package: Either you have both, or you have neither. Personally, I have both.

By: Me

Me — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:16:49 +0000

When I visit random sites from time to time, and check out these types of things, I usually scroll through the comments, to see what idiots happened to post on whatever website I happen to be browsing. Generally, it only takes a few moments before I run across someone with a vaguely similar view to mine. In this case, however, it took, alarmingly, over 40 posts before this happened.

Thank you, very much, for expressing, perhaps even better than I could have myself, my own opinion on this comment section. I was getting dangerously close to having to express it myself.

that being said, I believe that 40% of the comments on this pie chart are trolls, 30% really are as thick as they sound in their comment, and the other 30% are just joking, in one form or another.

By: lola

lola — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:33:50 +0000

I feel like you are missing magic school bus. I got through so many years of bio with that show.

By: /b/

/b/ — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:31:10 +0000

school doesn’t really teach much, and you learn most everything from social interaction

By: mo

mo — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:28:59 +0000

you guys are all dumb, haven’t you noticed we have a bunch of idiots running the country and they all have degrees, common sense is what gets you through most of life, it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out, although some educated idiots might think so.

By: bobzmoose

bobzmoose — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:06:39 +0000

Where’s the “What I learned from reading books that interest me on my own” slice?

By: pal

pal — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:04:48 +0000

so you guys are ten?

By: pal

pal — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:00:43 +0000

i doubt he made it to middle school yet

By: alondra

alondra — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:06:48 +0000

omg you are so right and i LOVE bill nye the science guy even though i never learned anything about what ever he i steaching

By: Wtf-blanket

Wtf-blanket — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:05:22 +0000

for history, i’d put in videogames ……. viva call of duty

By: Shadowbane509

Shadowbane509 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:31:10 +0000

Oh, they made a new one whrer they test a miniturization machine, but the old man in the ship gets placed in a vaccine.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:01:56 +0000

Don’t forget the most important one, the magic school bus

By: Zoreta

Zoreta — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:40:07 +0000

Then you aren’t trying. Learning takes at least as much effort on the student’s end as the teacher’s- you only learn if you want to. Have I gotten a teacher once in a while that can’t teach well? Sure, everyone has. Do I still try to understand the teacher and the concepts they teach? Hell yes- and it’s done me well.

If you don’t take the time to think about what is in those books you lug around, there’s no point in carrying them.

By: lalala

lalala — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:02:02 +0000

Actually, yeah. A team of people get miniaturized and stuck in the body of a scientist who knows the secret to perfect miniaturization to destroy a blood clot in his brain with a laser.

By: Starsky

By: doodle

doodle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:04:23 +0000

It’s called a Joke you bunch of tight asses!
I have a Masters of Engineering, but I completely understand the point – Public Education sucks, and kids remember rhymes and fun stuff. And those programs are where I FIRST learned many things.

By: Really?

Really? — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:36:18 +0000

Yeah, I remeber when the Count from Sesame Street went over Complex Derivatives. Oh, and remember when Big Bird talked about the Preamble to the Constitution? Good Times!

By: TitansMum

TitansMum — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:21:41 +0000

Where is the Mythbuster’s slice? Where else are you going to learn you can make a rocket from salami or destroy a ships sail with a cheese cannonball?

SInce civics was stripped out of most US curriculums I expect most folks are getting 100% of their government knowledge from School House Rock.

By: lalala

lalala — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:11:32 +0000

Three weeks into the semester in my Health and Fitness class, we’ve already seen “The Fantastic Voyage” (crap old movie, if you’ve never heard of it), “Supersize me”, and “Shopping with Susan Powter”.

Oh yeah, and my teacher also said that things with monounsaturated fats come from one farmer, and things with polyunsaturated fats come from multiple farmers. Yay for being smart!

By: Tasaio

Tasaio — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:49:22 +0000

While I agree in that you forget a lot of what you learn in school…
Seriously dude, you’re just not listening. Or your school sucks. Probably both.

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:44:22 +0000

I take it you are not an engineering major?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:28:01 +0000

I agree completely. The stuff we retain is the stuff that is made fun.