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I teach English and philosophy at a 30th grade level. You wanna know how I’m doing? Well, I might be homeless again soon, I think the CIA is manipulating me, and God can’t stop dicking around with the phenomequalitesselation of the karmic entanglements within my monadic lens of reality, but at least I have decided I am a prophet of the Mormon Church and will be the 48th and 50th president of the United States soon, so I got that going for me.
But hey, at least we’re harder to mislead and we understand the media we consume better.
Yeah, we’re not oblivious to the state of the world around us and that gives us —checks notes— anxiety and frustration with the people who are.
The tools to see the faults yes, we need to drive to take the steps to build the world we wish to live in.
But without the tools to see it’s faults we could never build a better tomorrow.
Preach on
Me reading at a collegiate level in 2nd grade then ending up as a dumbass adult.
I was reading at a college level in 5th grade.
it only provided the opportunity to wreck the smug sense of superiority of my teacher, whom berated me daily for being “difficult” and “undisciplined”.
guess I was unchallenged by your lackluster curriculum you dumb bitch.
I’ll never forget the look on her face when she saw my reading comprehension score came back a few points higher than her own. she even attempted to identify if I was cheating.
Humans were mean but books were not. I never thought it would get me far, that was my parents very misguided assumptions.
I used to read one level above my grade always. Then when I would get into the grade, the English teacher was always impressed that I’d read everything already and I was always impressed at the extremely stupid questions they would ask about the “author’s intent” in writing this poem.
It’s a fucking poem, Linda. Chill your beans at trying to be an amateur psychologist for a man dead 300 years already.
It’s a fucking poem, Linda. Chill your beans at trying to be an amateur psychologist for a man dead 300 years already.
There was a massive crime perpetrated against high school students. Somehow, the teachers took the good idea of teaching a book and pointing out its underlying themes and historical context (that scene in great expectations where the girl plays the card game against the protagonist, as an example) to gain a greater understanding… and drove it into the ground by needlessly making everything (the infamous blue curtains) this massive deal that you absolutely had to contemplate and tear apart and put together with everything else, waaaaah!
I skipped Harry Potter tho so that was nice.
Don’t let your dreams become all-star memes
Why tf are you attacking me?
Nowadays, being able to read beyond a kindergarten level just pisses off all the Right people, which is awesome.
Had a 9th grade reading level according to my kindergarten teacher. Probably the last time I was proud of myself.
No but it did make the other kids think I was weird for reading LotR in grade 5.
I was just competing with my friend who was way smarter than me. I plateaued once he moved away.
I had a collegiate reading level in 3rd grade.
Most people assumed it was because I was wicked smaht.
It’s because I had no friends and hated life and used books as escapism. And just learned a ton of trivia along the way.
I like to joke that my knowledge base is vast as an ocean, but deep as a puddle, and if you aren’t careful you’ll fall into a sinkhole like astronomy, geology, or lord of the rings lore.
I was there by 5th grade and read grade 5 in first grade. I never read a ton, but I gave cred to my grandma, who would read me “the pokey little puppy” when I was 2 and 3 and 4 years old like every night I was there (a lot).
I had the book memorized and was able to follow along to all the words without knowing how to actually read or anything about sounds. Apparently that was a big leg up in learning to read.
Having someone read to you when you’re little often is a huge leg up, whether or not you even try to follow along with the words yourself
If you feel like it, tell me the first random astronomy thing that comes to your mind 👀
a black hole’s radius grows linear with its mass. but its volume grows with the third power of its radius. so, the more massive a black hole gets, the less dense it gets.
Space is REALLY BIG and SUPER EMPTY
There are sections of space called “voids” where there’s almost nothing. Like even LESS nothing than usual.
The largest one we know of is called the Böotes (super)Void. In 200,000,000 light-years, there are around 60 galaxies.
You could duplicate our galaxy around 2,300 times and still not reach from edge to edge.
If we were in the center of the void, we wouldn’t have discovered other galaxies even exist until telescopes got sophisticated, large, and sensitive enough to see the faint and distant galaxies that were closest. Sometime in the late 1960s/early 70s, most likely.
That’s a hella big Böotes; universe has serious cake
But actually on a real note do you think humans would have even invented telescopes that good by then if we were in the center void like that? How can you tell if a telescope is getting better if you don’t have any stars to compare to, maybe just seeking out sharper images of planets we would have stumbled into it eventually? Also that would mean that the planets would be really incredibly noticable in the night sky
Space is big like really big. It would take well over an hour to walk from here to the moon and the moon is really close
More than two hours, I’d say
Big if true
i like the mental image of a huge body of water where most places are only a few inches below the surface but youll randomly find little lava tubes that go unexpectedly deep (evidence of temporary hyperfocus), several deep valleys (more enduring fixations), and a couple mariana trenches (special interests). reminds me of the train on the water in spirited away.
also this was me…
Same, though I also think that the people testing me did not have the requisite reading comp to make a test… I sure as hell did not get Ender’s Game when I first read it, even though I passed the AR test
Oh I hated the accelerated reading tests. To prove a point in 5th grade, about how it’s not actually making me want to read because of rewards, since I could read 20 kindergarten level books and get more points than the 2 500+ page books I was reading, and it would take less time.
Also pro tip for anyone who considers it, Battlefield Earth is NOT child appropriate. Or appropriate for anyone to read, honestly. Just skip anything by Hubbard…
I can relate to this so hard. I’ve no idea how many books I read as a kid, but often several per week. I still love reading, obviously, it’s just that I don’t dedicate as much time to do it anymore. Been trying to pick the habit back up though.
One of the quirks I developed as a result of my reading habits, is that I’d use very dated terms when speaking my native tongue. I have so many early-1900s insults in my head, it’s almost unfortunate I never get to use them.
Everybody gangsta until you drop a grammatically correct “heretofore”.
