Iowa: "Dammit, here I thought there's gold blackmail material!"
Though I'm more interested in their reaction when it's time to stop using the kotatsu. The Germans obliged, the Americans not so much, I think this will also be Royal's first time...
Eboreg said:
Central heating is bourgeois.
Verniy: "Wait, that's it! Revolution time, comrades! Demand central heating for everyone!"
(Then again, "proletariat" is basically like gum in class: it's fine if you brought enough to share with everybody.)
I called the teacher's bluff on that with a Plen-T-Pak of Juicy Fruit in the fourth grade. Got to spend some quality time with Principal Sanders explaining to me that no one likes a smart-ass.
I called the teacher's bluff on that with a Plen-T-Pak of Juicy Fruit in the fourth grade. Got to spend some quality time with Principal Sanders explaining to me that no one likes a smart-ass.
It's generally grand fun to call the teachers bluff.
For example, we were supposed to sit and wait, quietly, if we finished our work in one class. I read books. The teacher was annoyed because I was disobeying her, and pulled that "I hope you brought enough for everyone!" card.
She did not like it when it turned out most of my backpack was, indeed, books. Lots and lots of books.
The rest of the class was just sort of staring. Was good fun. Like the times in English class.
It's generally grand fun to call the teachers bluff.
For example, we were supposed to sit and wait, quietly, if we finished our work in one class. I read books. The teacher was annoyed because I was disobeying her, and pulled that "I hope you brought enough for everyone!" card.
She did not like it when it turned out most of my backpack was, indeed, books. Lots and lots of books.
The rest of the class was just sort of staring. Was good fun. Like the times in English class.
I remember in third grade, they would try to get us to learn basic four-function math by just giving us daily quiz sheets of about 20 problems. To try to get us invested in doing them, they said that they would have a ranking for who finished first, but that if you finished first, you should just quietly double-check your work while waiting for everyone else. (These were still graded quizes, so actual accuracy mattered.)
I quickly figured out that it was vastly faster to just put down any random number, declare I was "done", then spend the "double-check" time erasing the random stuff and actually answering the problems correctly... after all, that was the most efficient way to achieve the stated goals of the game, and it was all completely within the stated rules they had set forth.
After doing this a couple times, the teacher decided to steal the quiz sheet out from under me, then read the random scribbles out loud to try to humiliate me in front of the class before making me take the test again, alone in the cafeteria.
Teachers are Calvinball players. It's a poor dev that not only blames, but outright punishes the players for playing by the rules just because the players are better able to understand the game they built than they are.
I remember in third grade, they would try to get us to learn basic four-function math by just giving us daily quiz sheets of about 20 problems. To try to get us invested in doing them, they said that they would have a ranking for who finished first, but that if you finished first, you should just quietly double-check your work while waiting for everyone else. (These were still graded quizes, so actual accuracy mattered.)
I quickly figured out that it was vastly faster to just put down any random number, declare I was "done", then spend the "double-check" time erasing the random stuff and actually answering the problems correctly... after all, that was the most efficient way to achieve the stated goals of the game, and it was all completely within the stated rules they had set forth.
After doing this a couple times, the teacher decided to steal the quiz sheet out from under me, then read the random scribbles out loud to try to humiliate me in front of the class before making me take the test again, alone in the cafeteria.
Teachers are Calvinball players. It's a poor dev that not only blames, but outright punishes the players for playing by the rules just because the players are better able to understand the game they built than they are.
Mine tended towards just gritting their teeth and going "fine". Otherwise I pointed out that hey, you set the rules. Loudly.
They had to choose between changing their publicly set rules and being called out on it, or putting up with someone who's being defiant in principle but staying within the rules.
Then again, they also tended to bend the letter of the rules to the spirit. "No reading in class" tended to get exempted when I didn't need to look up to answer their questions. Or corrected them. That was always fun to do.
- Common property - Practical function - Efficient
NWSiaCB said:
I remember in third grade, they would try to get us to learn basic four-function math by just giving us daily quiz sheets of about 20 problems. To try to get us invested in doing them, they said that they would have a ranking for who finished first, but that if you finished first, you should just quietly double-check your work while waiting for everyone else. (These were still graded quizes, so actual accuracy mattered.)
I quickly figured out that it was vastly faster to just put down any random number, declare I was "done", then spend the "double-check" time erasing the random stuff and actually answering the problems correctly... after all, that was the most efficient way to achieve the stated goals of the game, and it was all completely within the stated rules they had set forth.
After doing this a couple times, the teacher decided to steal the quiz sheet out from under me, then read the random scribbles out loud to try to humiliate me in front of the class before making me take the test again, alone in the cafeteria.
Teachers are Calvinball players. It's a poor dev that not only blames, but outright punishes the players for playing by the rules just because the players are better able to understand the game they built than they are.
Well, if you want to go all Durkheim about it, the whole point of classrooms is not to actually teach students any of the subjects they purport to teach, but rather to condition them into working members of society.
Well, if you want to go all Durkheim about it, the whole point of classrooms is not to actually teach students any of the subjects they purport to teach, but rather to condition them into working members of society.
Well, I was still learning my math by doing it (I had to be both accurate and quick to make sure I corrected my answers in time even after wasting some time writing down random ones) but beyond that, learning how to get an elbow up on the competition through discovering loopholes and exploiting them is probably a more practical lesson in how to succeed in the real world than the math, itself.
You gonna explain!?Hnn.There's no steam heating, either!You're in the kotatsu all super normal-like!So she says.Yeah? Of course I'm getting in, it's cold.No matter how you slice it, kotatsu are proletariat
...And such it is.The hell does that mean!?Absolutely.No, but, if you compare it to Russia's winter, wouldn't you be all like "Pfft, Japan" or something, right?Nope, Japanese rooms are just straight-up cold!!You baaad girl~B-But, in Sovietgrad, kotatsu would be like bourgeois, wouldn't they?Pfwaaaah!
