UK Education and the hacker mindset.

[bunnydowell]

I have had a pretty hard time in education over the years. Most of this has been my own fault, trying to produce work that is far beyond the requirements on increasingly tight deadlines, trying to learn topics far too indepth for my level of experience, lazy organization, and bad time-management

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Oh, btw, I'm a Marxist now

[ext_14071]

By extrapolation, it wont be appreciated there. Things just appear to get better, it helps the system work. If everything went downhill, why would people bother?

You missed something out. As well as dispiriting your enjoyed subjects by watering them down and making you hit criteria, the system also pushes out extra-school activities. You learn that, the more extra-school constructive activities you have, the more pressure your schoolwork has. The more pressure, the less you can enjoy them. The less you enjoy them, the more lie incomplete and crippled.

Sceptics of me say "People aren't that bad". It doesn't seem to occur to them that the system might come about by chance. Evolution is alive and well, my friend.

Re: Oh, btw, I'm a Marxist now

[o0oadiemuso0o]

So much truth from both. It must be terrible being a teacher and having to mark your students according to some petty national requirements when you know that it doesn't reflect their true ability