That's kind of a gloomy message when you think about it. If people don't appreciate it when you do the right thing and only care when you screw up, there's little reason to take risks.
That's kind of a gloomy message when you think about it. If people don't appreciate it when you do the right thing and only care when you screw up, there's little reason to take risks.
The analogy is also quite flawed, because of how easy the task is in comparison to the justified expectations for a teacher.
For example, I think we would be fully justified to scorn a trained surgeon who lost every fifth patient in a routine appendectomy instead of applauding him for the four patients he operated on successfully. OTH if during a expedition in some remote part someone with medical knowledge manages to succeed on 1 out of 2 operations, I would be very impressed.
Nevertheless, the general message contains a grain of truth. Especially, if you do the same thing over and over the mistakes are what is usually remembered.
@Balrog99: Nah, "teaching lessons to kids" is a job for the criminal justice system.
That only teaches them to be smarter about not getting caught next time. I'm one of those conservatives that thinks that teaching inmates skills and 'gasp' educating them might just be more effective than keeping them locked up longer. I'm fully aware that our criminal justice system is a joke. Let's get both parties together and fix it. We need to start hearing success stories instead of horror stories...
"I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man to do absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." Eugene V. Debs
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elementsm
profoundly depend on science and technology. We have arranged things so
that almost no one understands science and technology.
This is a
prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but
sooner or later this mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up
in our faces.
-- Carl Sagan, in The Demon Haunted World; Science as a Candle in the Dark
Not quite a law of reality. Maybe a reality Check.
Rent/Mortgage is supposed to be equal to 1/4 of your income per month. The average rent across the US is $1419 a month (in December of last year). This means $5676 a month at roughly 4 times that in income. If a "normal" workweek is 40 hours per weeks, that's near $36 an hour.
However, the Federal Minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour for non-tipped workers and $2.13 for tipped workers like waiters and waitresses. How do you pay for a house/apartment on that?
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elementsm profoundly depend on science and technology. We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
-- Carl Sagan, in The Demon Haunted World; Science as a Candle in the Dark
That's interesting but "We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology." Isn't really true. Anyone can study basic technology and science online. For free.
Not quite a law of reality. Maybe a reality Check.
Rent/Mortgage is supposed to be equal to 1/4 of your income per month. The average rent across the US is $1419 a month (in December of last year). This means $5676 a month at roughly 4 times that in income. If a "normal" workweek is 40 hours per weeks, that's near $36 an hour.
However, the Federal Minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour for non-tipped workers and $2.13 for tipped workers like waiters and waitresses. How do you pay for a house/apartment on that?
Why should the minimum wage pay for an average rent??
The problem is that science teaching was made boring. Ask any kid what are the most disliked subjects in school. Chemistry, physics and math will be at the top.
Now show me a child that does not want to know why the sky is blue or why fire is hot. Something is deeply wrong in the way science is being taught if this natural curiosity is dead by the time that young child starts being taught science in school.
The problem is that science teaching was made boring. Ask any kid what are the most disliked subjects in school. Chemistry, physics and math will be at the top.
Now show me a child that does not want to know why the sky is blue or why fire is hot. Something is deeply wrong in the way science is being taught if this natural curiosity is dead by the time that young child starts being taught science in school.
Actually my kids found history to be the most boring class. How is that even possible?
I think math and history are stereotypically the least interesting classes to kids, though I don't know if that's borne out by reality. Naturally, it depends on teaching style and student interests.
The problem is that science teaching was made boring. Ask any kid what are the most disliked subjects in school. Chemistry, physics and math will be at the top.
Now show me a child that does not want to know why the sky is blue or why fire is hot. Something is deeply wrong in the way science is being taught if this natural curiosity is dead by the time that young child starts being taught science in school.
They only want to know the answers until you start explaining the science, however. After a few minutes their eyes start glazing over and they're like , "Oh, nevermind."
Science was always my favorite subject, I could never get enough of biology. I even took two separate biology classes in high school because I wanted more of it. But even then, teaching style and curriculum play HEAVILY in something being interesting or not. It was possible to even bore me if the subject was handled poorly.
Because people are trying to survive on that. Witness the Morgan Spurlock series "30 days" and the episode "Minimum Wage".
Right, but if you're making minimum wage you should probably be looking for a place with minimum rent.
As a curiosity do you happen to know if the 1/4 is "supposed" to be before or after tax? I'm on the wrong side of that after tax.
"Rent generally should not be more than 25 percent of your gross monthly salary," says Andy Solari, Realtor Associate at Re/Max Carrier Realtors in Brigantine, New Jersey. "If an individual's income is $4,000 a month, then the rent should be no higher than $1,000."
So I am assuming before. Sometimes, you can't even afford minimum rent. You also have to buy food, And getting sick can wipe out any savings you might have had. That happens to Morgan and his girlfriend in the episode.
Edited to add this quote... "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."- Stephen Jay Gould
Something is deeply wrong in the way science is being taught if this natural curiosity is dead by the time that young child starts being taught science in school.
A lot of it is the teachers. A lot of college students majoring in history, social science, etc, want to teach it in schools. In math and science, they want to do it, not teach it.
Today for show and tell I've brought a tiny marvel of nature: a single snowflake. I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water, just like every other one, when you bring it in the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I'll be leaving you drips and going outside.
-- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
-- Benjamin Franklin
If let’s say it said 9x6 = 53 it might have taken the students awhile to grasp that it was wrong.
It’s a laughable mistake because it is an obvious one and one where a person who is teaching the subject should not make.
So the moral of the story is don’t make an obvious mistake that can be easily critiqued even if you can demonstrate more complex problems
- Joe Strummer
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elementsm profoundly depend on science and technology. We have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
-- Carl Sagan, in The Demon Haunted World; Science as a Candle in the Dark
Rent/Mortgage is supposed to be equal to 1/4 of your income per month. The average rent across the US is $1419 a month (in December of last year). This means $5676 a month at roughly 4 times that in income. If a "normal" workweek is 40 hours per weeks, that's near $36 an hour.
However, the Federal Minimum wage is still $7.25 an hour for non-tipped workers and $2.13 for tipped workers like waiters and waitresses. How do you pay for a house/apartment on that?
As a curiosity do you happen to know if the 1/4 is "supposed" to be before or after tax? I'm on the wrong side of that after tax.
So I am assuming before. Sometimes, you can't even afford minimum rent. You also have to buy food, And getting sick can wipe out any savings you might have had. That happens to Morgan and his girlfriend in the episode.
Edited to add this quote...
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."- Stephen Jay Gould
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker
-- Bill Stewart
-- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes"