giraffes

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[–] giraffes@kbin.earth 6 points 2 days ago

a Socratic education only works if you already inclined towards skeptical inquiry

Or if you just accost people in the streets like Socrates :b

I work at a top university and can confirm that the overwhelming majority of students are concerned primarily about jobs. It doesn't matter how good the school is; this is an effect of industrialization and more importantly education being reduced to a means for economic development and productivity. In my experience, it is ironically worse at the "better" schools where acceptance is highly competitive. If I'm being honest, a good community college is the sweet spot: teachers invested in teaching and students with the leisure and/or low risk/investment in just learning things for the heck of it.

[–] giraffes@kbin.earth 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Never get involved in a land war in Asia...err...Palestine"

[–] giraffes@kbin.earth 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

So no more rectangular “pizza?” We used to have brownies that smelled like kelp too.

[–] giraffes@kbin.earth 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Homeboy in the middle hasn’t passed weapon safety training apparently…

[–] giraffes@kbin.earth 6 points 1 month ago

So dumb. Also probably got paid to attend. I’m gonna go find this little shrine so I can piss an it if it’s still there.

[–] giraffes@kbin.earth 37 points 1 month ago

Well said. I could never go into politics because I am too volatile. That flag would already have wiped my ass by now. Don’t get we wrong, there is a time to wipe one’s ass with sacred cloth, but you gotta choose your battles.