I've been recently entertaining the idea of working on a completely online, open source/democratic, free, and non-school guided education infrastructure which keeps the goal of teaching focus on certain subjects, but adds things which school misses entirely (And seemingly on purpose) like actually teaching, say, how to focus in the first place. You seem like someone who'd be able to help me out with something like that, you down? It'd take a hell of a lot of commitment but that's what building a team is for, yknow?
There is nothing wrong with having non-educational interests or pursuing a "regular" life; it isn't that everyone should be under the pressure of trying to become a genius, but I think it's a sad state when higher ambitions are almost discouraged — that we are pressured, instead, into shooting for average because the ones who don't are singled out as "nerds" or "think they are better than everyone else" or what have you.
I'm under a strong impression that this works the other way around, too, though. That is, the stupidest thing that nerds do is condescending the stupid, since that's how they got stupid in the first place - Nobody ever gave them a chance so now their whole life is them versus what they don't got (all sorts of "jonesing" is also a problem which society has that needs to go). They feel threatened by the hierarchical culture of intelligence and then the nerds get it fed back to them by schoolyard bully types. Both parties are about equally guilty with this bullshit, and there needs to be a balance put in place. Best thing you can really do is make yourself an example of that balance, though, and there is an emerging culture around that which I'm noticing!
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I've been recently entertaining the idea of working on a completely online, open source/democratic, free, and non-school guided education infrastructure which keeps the goal of teaching focus on certain subjects, but adds things which school misses entirely (And seemingly on purpose) like actually teaching, say, how to focus in the first place. You seem like someone who'd be able to help me out with something like that, you down? It'd take a hell of a lot of commitment but that's what building a team is for, yknow?
I'm under a strong impression that this works the other way around, too, though. That is, the stupidest thing that nerds do is condescending the stupid, since that's how they got stupid in the first place - Nobody ever gave them a chance so now their whole life is them versus what they don't got (all sorts of "jonesing" is also a problem which society has that needs to go). They feel threatened by the hierarchical culture of intelligence and then the nerds get it fed back to them by schoolyard bully types. Both parties are about equally guilty with this bullshit, and there needs to be a balance put in place. Best thing you can really do is make yourself an example of that balance, though, and there is an emerging culture around that which I'm noticing!