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

[loyalrebel]

....so people are destroying the planet in the future as well?

[Insert a picture of that professor from Futurama here.]

As far as I know yes, though he does not have the ridiculous hair of the man on the money. History is often inaccurate after all.

[professorwolf]

Oh, we've been steadily working to destroy the planet ever since we invented the spear and the plow, honestly. Medieval cities had problems with smoke and ash everywhere, and sewage was never very efficient. Ancient hunter-gatherers hunted some large prey species to extinction by chasing them off cliffs.

[Mental shrug.]

We're only at the point in my time where there are enough of us and our technology is advanced enough that we're destroying more than just our local ecosystem, that's all.

[And he'll have to look for this Alexander Hamilton. He's pretty sure the wig would be accurate, since the dollar bill portrait is based on paintings at the time. Maybe prettier, considering who was paying for those paintings, but still.]

[loyalrebel]

[He isn't sure whether to be vaguely offended or not at the comment about medieval cities being dirty.]

So essentially nobody gives much of a damn anymore.

[professorwolf]

[Maybe Malik's wasn't, but a lot of them really kinda were. Sorry, man.]

That's not true. Mostly we just didn't know entirely what we were doing. We're working on it, though, it's just slow going because there are simply so many people, and many of them don't even believe it's our fault the climate is changing and so don't see the point of changing their lifestyles. But we're working on it.