• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    the American education system in a nutshell.

    that’s why I tell my kids, learn as much as you can, try your best, but don’t get upset about a poor test grade here or there. You can learn anything you want, you just have to be willing to put in the effort.

    the only useful thing I learned in the American education system is that you can’t rely on it to educate, as it’s designed to generate. Generate workers, voters, debt mules, pawns.

    • ulterno@programming.dev
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      4 days ago

      Now that I think about it, it might have used “instantaneous”, so my fault would have been just that I didn’t know the difference vs “instant” :P.

      But then again, that would partially be the teacher’s fault for not pointing that out when I raised that question in class.