[h0enyb-deactivated20171007]

[just-shower-thoughts]

All tests should be open book. It’s not like your future boss is going to say, “I need those tax returns finished by noon, but don’t look at any of the financial statements. Do it all from memory.”

[tyrantworld]

Exactly! You should be tested on application of a concept not memory

[intj-confessions]

I’ve told this story before but idc I’m doing it again.

My dad once taught some class at a conference. He gave everyone a worksheet and after watching them flounder for a few minutes on their own he said, “You guys know you can talk to each other and work together, right?” These were industry professionals who suddenly reverted back to that must-not-collaborate mentality when put in a classroom setting.

[warsawmouse]

school fucks us up soo bad

[lierdumoa]

It becomes more and more obvious every year that public school as it exists was designed to prepare people to enter the factory system in the 1930s.

[berlynn-wohl]

In case anyone didn’t know, the above is literally true. The modern public school system was designed a little over a hundred years ago by captains of industry to train people to do the dehumanizing labor needed on assembly lines.

Human beings crave meaningful work that makes them feel accomplished and resourceful. Humans like to feel like they’re part of a community, and see the results of a job well done. These desires are incompatible with industrial and post-industrial economies, so people have to be brought up in a system that crushes as much of this desire as possible and convinces them that any remaining scrap of yearning for dignified labor is not worth acknowledging or pursuing.

Class periods that aren’t long enough to devote serious thought to a subject; the bells that tell you when it’s time to eat, regardless of when you’re actually hungry; the alienating tedium of standardized testing; these things didn’t develop organically. They were designed by the people who stood to derive the greatest benefit from them.

[rosalie-q-deactivated20181204]

“The Rise of Standardized Educational Testing in the U.S.: A Bibliographic Overview,” Torin Monahan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1998)

“Standardized Testing: Fair or Not?” Dr. John Poulsen & Kurtis Hewson, University of Lethbridge

[actuallyschizophrenic]

if you haven’t heard what disney just did to their college program cast members, including the ones who came from other countries, do me a favor and learn about it, talk about it, share it, spread it, i need this to be known. i need this to not go away. they need to face consequences for what they just did to THOUSANDS of employees (most of which are under the age of 25) with such a short notice. please dont let them hide what they just did.

[actuallyschizophrenic]

here’s someone on twitter explaining it in better words than i can handle right now.

they laid off thousands on saturday, told them to get out of their housing in less than four days, told the ICPs (international college program) employees they need to be out in less than 4 days despite them being in another country on their own during travel bans no longer allowing them to fly home with their work visas no longer extended since they no longer work for the company, they told them that this is for their safety but they dont care that they just threw THOUSANDS of young adults into homelessness during a pandemic. and then they dropped Frozen 2 on disney+ because they needed to cover it. dont let them get away with that.

[wind-the-music-box]

This has under 300 notes.

[wherda-cat]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coronavirus-causes-disney-to-end-internships-early-sending-2200-of-them-packing/ar-BB11qFFO

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-bz-disney-college-conronavirus-20200314-nopzzkticvd6bcqwat6fhoxxqe-story.html

[adteachings-deactivated20220125]

Now, more than ever, clear writing matters.

[cipheramnesia]

I felt my life extend five years with how much this reduced my stress.

[lilmamabeyellin]

[glazecake]

[rayonthego-deactivated20230302]

[13-22-deactivated20201210]

“Gotta coordinate!”

[theclassyissue]

[not-safe-for-democracy]

[thepurelands-deactivated2021031]

I don’t know who this bloke is, but I definitely think we should all start saying “thriving wage” until it becomes a thing

[daywalker75]

This makes me think of that line Hopper from A Bug’s Life and just the relationship shown between the grasshoppers and the ant colony: 

In case you can’t see the quote very well, “Those puny ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life. It’s not about food, it’s about keeping those ants in line.”

[musicalsilence]

Are you telling me that when i watched bug’s life i was actually watching a proletariat revolution?

[accidental-muse]

yes.

[blazepress]

[dicketysplit]

where the fuck would we be without garlic honestly

[whitepeopletwitter]

[spokenwordajcp]

😂😂😂😂

[varelianna]

😭😭

[vortexsophia-deactivated2022110]

[geekygothgirl]

I don’t know what we did to deserve Mr. Rogers but I’m so glad we had him. 

[igmakeup]

[mockwa]

[snuv]

motherfucker ultimate

[lyjerria]

I’m hypersensitive to people’s energy and it’s exhausting

[naomihitme]

Naomi Campbell and Cher photographed by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott, CR Fashion Book #16 Spring/Summer 2020. Styled by Carine Roitfeld. Hair by Ashual and Serena Radaelli. Makeup by Rokael Lizama and Francesca Tolot. Nails by Diem.