Comment on Anon reads Don Quixote
Randelung@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Same experience with a really old German book. He wanted to know the color of the hat one of the side characters was wearing. I had no clue, after investing so much time into trying to understand it. That kinda made me give up - why try to participate when the outcome is the same as if I didn’t?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
this entire thread is full of dumb takes but this is one of the dumbest
kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Someone gets cynical and disillusioned of the school system, after their efforts amount to nothing, because of a bad teacher. How is that a dumb take?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
because if one bad teacher ruined your education, you’re the idiot.
everyone has bad teachers dude. we also have good ones, and mediocre ones.
but this is peak american entitlement. ‘one teacher was mean to me once and i hate school forever and ever’ like… i mean that’s who the american president is… so yeah peak american.
kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
I sort of agree with this (with the exception of a teacher bullying someone), but I would not call a kid idiot, for that. Even a lot of adults cannot do that sort of self-reflection, it is unreasonable to expect it from an immature child. That is one reason, why teachers bear such huge responsibility, as to a kid even a minor thing can be world-shattering. They do not yet have the life experience, to know or understand better, and that is not them being idiots, but being children.
Also, that was not really what the original comment even said. It sounds very reasonable, to feel like giving up, after a bad experience like that. But they make no claims, that it had ruined their whole education.
(About the USA’s school system or cultural things around that, I cannot comment, since as someone from the other side of the ocean, I have no fucking clue how it really is.)