Summary: Baekhyun has been in a friend with benefits type of arrangement with Chanyeol since they were experimenting teenagers. It was a simple agreement, but as the years progressed, so did his needs. Quick, mindless handjobs were pleasant, but Baekhyun wanted more. His intention is to find love, but he never realised the lengths his best friend would go to keep himā¦
Author: EX0_DUSĀ
Lenght: Chaptered
Status: Completed
Genre: Childhood friends to lovers, friends with benefits
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Smut lol
Submitted by: Anonymous (J)
Why You Submitted: love this work
Summary: It takes a couple of tarot cards, a lot of money, and a lot of patience to get it through Baekhyunās thick skull that Chanyeol is in love with him.
Author: anon for baeconandeggs
Length: Oneshot
Status: Completed
Genre: friends to lovers, onesided love, humor, crack, pining, oblivious baek,Ā
Rating: PG13
Admin Shiba: this was so cute and funny! i am a huge fan of tarot and i thought it was so cutely incorporated and absolutely adorable. give this one a read!!
I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the fieldās basically just a 100 years old. We donāt really know what weāre doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.
Most classroom practice is astrology.
Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.
Weāre still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.
Most teachers perpetuate the ābankingā model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.
Thus the elite āLyceumā style of instruction continues even though itās ineffectual with most kids.
Whatās worse, the key strategies weāve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents Iāve known flout research.
Some definitions:
Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.
Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.
Things we (scholars) DO know:
-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.
-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).
-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.
Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.
Maintaining the status quo? Nope.
Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.
If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.
They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.
And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.
For what?
It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.
WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.
We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.
The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?
Education is all about capitalism.
"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.
THAT is why modern education is a failure.
Its basic premise is monstrous.
"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"
Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.
just remembered how he used to cover his mouth while laughing but recently he stopped doing that and we've been so blessed by that precious smile even more ā„ļø
