Malik Greatly Disapproves. Again.

[loyalrebel]

[It's been a while since Malik's spoken up on the network but this is something drastic to him and it needs addressing.]

It has been recently brought to my attention that the education system of modern times is sorely lacking in a number of regards.

I was told that beyond the basics of reading and mathematics anything else was not important and was not even taught, and this desperately needs to be rectified.

We may be learning magic and other such things from our overlays, but there are areas that are horrifically left by the wayside in this arms race we have entered in to.

I may not know much about history as it is from most of your perspectives but there has to be educators among us or at least those who will be willing to step up and help the children among us not return home uneducated louts who respond to the idea of mathematics or reading with "why should I care?" or "it is too difficult".

[He's not sorry Phillip. This is probably your fault kid.]

Comments

[professorwolf]

That's a little older than Phillip is, Thorne, I'm afraid. It may not... actually be something he'll enjoy. I recall it being a bit dated, if we're thinking about the same show.

We might try to find something from, say, the Animaniacs about math, though. That might be more engaging for the younger crowd. There has to be something in that show's run about it.

[darkhourdear]

...You know I'm fifteen now, right? [and also RIGHT HERE.]

[professorwolf]

I still enjoy Animaniacs, Phillip, and I'm in my thirties. But if you like educational cartoons from the fifties, more power to you.

[darkhourdear]

[sorry lyall phillip is busy feeling really uncomfortable right now. he'll try to rein himself in.]

...I've never seen Animaniacs either. [except for like the one time they showed the state song in third grade.]

[professorwolf]

[It's all right, Phillip, he knows how that is. He's much more used to dealing with teenagers than middle school kids, honestly!]

I'll see if I can't remember some of it well enough to recreate a video sometime... a lot of it's silly, but I know they have a lot of history and cultural education in it. I just can't remember if there's any about math, off the top of my head.

[darkhourdear]

...I miss Google, sometimes. [that would make this easier.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Me too.

[professorwolf]

Thirded. Maybe we can wind up in a world soon with modern amenities, and we can go on a binge of searching and downloading things.

[thornsofmalkav]

... I still like it. But admittedly I'm kinda weird.

Also, dang, Animaniacs. I haven't seen that show since I was little.

[professorwolf]

Oh, I didn't say I didn't enjoy it to some extent, but I can still recognize it for what it is, which is very much one of Disney's fifties cartoons. I think it's the same narrator they used for all the Goofy cartoons, even.

I was a little older than you when it was running, but it has a lot of appeal for all ages, I think.