Day 714: Sunday Memories

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1. Tara Li says:

   September 29, 2013 at 4:28 pm

   Honestly, put a nice HDTV on the wall, and once you’re more than a few feet from it, it’s really not that easy to see the pixelization any more. Wonder if there’s a market for seriously long loops of video on HDs for providing views out of faux windows.

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2. Tara Li says:

   September 29, 2013 at 4:45 pm

   You speak of this “promise” from Teacher to Student – but… said promise was always bankrupt. Admitted, it was *less* bankrupt before – it worked out for many if not most students, but it has never been totally true. And its a relatively new one – certainly, as late as the late 1800s, the job that awaited you after school was quite often “continue helping out around the family farm”, or “go establish your own family farm”, and much of the training for that was OTJ.

   Part of the argument from the lower end is that there’s so much waste in schools at the administrative level – but over and over the proposed solution has been to add more adminstrative tasks!

   And childhood has *never* been a halcyon time, except in people looking at it retrospectively. Poor is a very relative thing. I don’t think there’s ever been a period in history when the majority of children – even the majority of children in *developed countries* – have had a “halcyon time”. It’s been better, it’s been worse – but it’s never been wonderful. The human race has a long way to go yet.

   Odd thing with respect to apples and onions – if you can’t smell, apples & onions taste the same.

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   • Nathan says:

     September 30, 2013 at 8:46 pm

     All very good points.

     But that “work hard in school and you’ll be positioned to get the best jobs (and most income) after” was a Real Thing when I was in school. I didn’t believe it but a lot of people did.

     I was a cynical little twerp.

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