Studying is Good, Studying Sucks

December 2, 2012 at 9:02 pm (Uncategorized) (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , )

I.

“Boredom is excess attention with insufficient intention.”
(McLeod, 2001)

Most of today’s education is indoctrination: we need to promote languange, we need to promote literacy, we need to promote…
They’re good, mkay.

What remains unsaid is that the world’s knowledge is a reply to someone else’s problem. Mostly, we don’t even know what it was that the person was asking. If we do, we usually don’t really have that problem.

With this said, we learn about those people (since they made “important” contributions): their life, hobbies, year born and died; a rich plethora of irrelavant facts to help us join into the worship of someone else’s idol.

“My child just can’t concentrate on his studies.”
random ADHD mum

His concentration is alive and well. The problem lies in yours. Nevermind, that pill has less abuse potential than cocaine and amphetamine. As long as he gets into that School, he will be fine (i.e. in debt; enslaved). His affliction is real (i.e. like diabetes) after all.

So he can learn about important things.

“Important
1. Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant: an important message that must get through; close friends who are important to me.”
TheFreeDictionary

How is what doesn’t affect me important to me?

This is ridiculous. When do we stop montillating the Traxoline?

“Better something then nothing”
our culture

Really, a room full of clutter is just as bad as an empty room, lets be honest.

II.

I’m sitting here, staring into space – why wont anybody hire me? But then again, if i won’t hire myself why would anybody else? 14 years of education, and i’m as unemployable as ever. I’m unemployable because i lack knowledge about how to do things. In other words, i’m uneducated.

III.

There are people out on the street fighting the police again. They want jobs and money. But the people they think can give them jobs are getting fired tomorrow themselves. They are all angry. I wonder why?

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Interior Design

November 26, 2012 at 10:32 pm (Uncategorized) (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , )

The way of arranging and aquiring stuff tells of a feeling we would like to re-experience. An opens space feels like freedom, a filled one feels safe. This is because there is nothing worse then experiencing – in terms of emotions – something new. If we do – are we still going back to where we are, or spin into madness?

What you know is what you know you can cope with.

Decoration is simply slavery to our own emotions. As they rule the mind, rationalizations about why we own what we do are becoming an art themselves. There no rational explanation for owning knick-knacks.

Don’t be afraid. Instead of walking around with a duster, you could be walking around with a friend.

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Education System Idea

March 13, 2012 at 9:39 pm (Uncategorized) (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , )

Education today is still designed for a world in which all human intellectual development could, with the right effort, be understood in a lifetime.

That not being the case, we see lots of people paying a lot of time and money into their education, only to meet a market that is not interested in those skills – which is no wonder, given the large population of people with the same skills.

Maybe schools, universities especially, should start thinking of starting to offer a problem-based curriculum.

To give an example, there are millions of people suffering of Alzheimer’s disease. Thus, schools should offer a complete education on Alzheimer’s disease. What i mean by that is, like today’s “Medical School” there could be a “Alzheimer’s Disease Curriculum”.

As opposed to just training regular doctors, this kind of education could be cheaper to provide and easier to master. It would also give one the advantage in actually knowing a topic, instead of the jack-of-all-trades kind of medical training that is popular today, and is increasingly redundant with the patient being more and more informed.

Apart of being cheaper for schools to provide, it would be faster to finish (one could choose another topic if he was so inclined or in case the market should vanish; as is often the case today); there would only be a small amount of people with the same skills in the market, and thus they would be sought after.

The education would be goal oriented, thus faster development would be seen in areas where there are lots of patients – thus the “demand” would actually help fuel development in the area – towards the possible cures for the diseases! The most complicated diseases would also be desirable areas of study, since they would suggest a safe, long-term employment environment.

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