Saturday, May 31, 2008

The education system in action

Take a look at this. Apparently, the teacher insisted that a kilometer was longer than a mile, and a kid corrected him/her. Result; kid gets detention, and the teacher says that even though the kid turned out to be right, he shouldn't have corrected the teacher.

Erm. That makes perfect sense, right? Respect for stupid people in authority is more important than actual facts, you see.
Posted by Robert Synnott at 7:14 PM
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2 comments:

  1. 1994? Yeah, things went retarded after I graduated. ^_^ When I was in school, if a teacher couldn't meet, accept, and overcome a challenge from a student who could prove their case beyond doubt, then they didn't have the right to punish anyone for their mistake. In the meantime, it seems everyone took Mr. Hilliken's advice and told their children to stop asking questions and raising challenge.

    When I rule this world, dueling is making a comeback.
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  2. I had a mother of a friend berate me for correcting her once. She was like "do you dis-respect your parents too ..!?"

    and the funny thing was I corrected her on the pronunication of MY NAME.

    It's my name god damnit -- if you can't say it right I'll correct you whether or 5 years old or 500 years old. :P

    David Gurba "grrr-Ba"
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