it's really bizarre how often students are like "help i'm stuck on this problem" and when you ask what they're stuck on they reveal that they don't even know the meaning of one or more of the words in it
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like... of course you're stuck on the problem, you don't even know what it's asking! but for some reason it doesn't occur to them to ask "help what does this even mean"
maybe they don't feel like they're allowed to?
cursed school system
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i have a half-baked rant in the works about this and it's not all the way done yet but there's something really fucked up and gaslight-y about how school teaches you to orient towards knowledge
knowledge as what authorities say rather than knowledge as derived from perception
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okay yeah here it is: school teaches you that being gaslit is the *fundamental source of knowledge*
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the number of times I was taught something that was pedagogically convenient, and have it revealed as at best an oversimplification later that year...
no wonder I got along so well with English (just BS it) and math (harder to gaslight derivation rules)
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this is always one of the things i liked best about math. i could just confirm everything for myself. no need to trust a teacher, a textbook, etc. as an authority. not too many subjects you can say that about