To add to this: No Child Left Behind really was the death knell for America's education system. Changing public school's emphasis from critical thinking to memorization not only creates generations of "parrots" (those who just repeat information that's been spun and warped to fit the empire's narrative), but its obsession with grades and scores only prove that students did the work, not that they actually learned anything. Couple that with its punitive, draconian success metric for schools, lower-income schools and those communities they're in never stood a chance. There's a lot of uproar about neo-lib/neo-con labor and economic policies on this website, which there should be, but there seems to be zero awareness or discussion about how devastating this is for leftism in America. It becomes increasingly difficult (borderline impossible) to deprogram people who've been fed a steady diet of pro-capitalist, pro-white supremacy, and pro-patriarchal propaganda for 20+ years without any kind of real development for critical thinking, critical reading, and critical writing. The left is delusional if it thinks any kind of progress can be made in this country before fixing this, or maybe I'm just being hyperbolic--I don't really know anymore.
Almost everything I learned despite school, not because of it. I taught myself a ton of stuff while I was in school out of boredom, but there are massive gaps in my education, especially around math, and it's very frustrating. When I do complicated math stuff, I know what I want to do, but not how to do it.
Kahn Academy is allegedly very good, although I haven't used it. I usually learn math stuff from old engineering textbooks as I need it, which is very frustrating and hurts my brain, but it's the fastest in the short term. I don't know enough to begin solving problems I don't know how to Google though. Like how do you calculate how low frequency sounds will get through openings of a known diameter? If the wave height is bigger than the diameter of the hole, the sound can get through by clipping the peaks, but how do you calculate that?
Stuff like that I can't figure out, and I don't even know where to start.
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To add to this: No Child Left Behind really was the death knell for America's education system. Changing public school's emphasis from critical thinking to memorization not only creates generations of "parrots" (those who just repeat information that's been spun and warped to fit the empire's narrative), but its obsession with grades and scores only prove that students did the work, not that they actually learned anything. Couple that with its punitive, draconian success metric for schools, lower-income schools and those communities they're in never stood a chance. There's a lot of uproar about neo-lib/neo-con labor and economic policies on this website, which there should be, but there seems to be zero awareness or discussion about how devastating this is for leftism in America. It becomes increasingly difficult (borderline impossible) to deprogram people who've been fed a steady diet of pro-capitalist, pro-white supremacy, and pro-patriarchal propaganda for 20+ years without any kind of real development for critical thinking, critical reading, and critical writing. The left is delusional if it thinks any kind of progress can be made in this country before fixing this, or maybe I'm just being hyperbolic--I don't really know anymore.
Almost everything I learned despite school, not because of it. I taught myself a ton of stuff while I was in school out of boredom, but there are massive gaps in my education, especially around math, and it's very frustrating. When I do complicated math stuff, I know what I want to do, but not how to do it.
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Kahn Academy is allegedly very good, although I haven't used it. I usually learn math stuff from old engineering textbooks as I need it, which is very frustrating and hurts my brain, but it's the fastest in the short term. I don't know enough to begin solving problems I don't know how to Google though. Like how do you calculate how low frequency sounds will get through openings of a known diameter? If the wave height is bigger than the diameter of the hole, the sound can get through by clipping the peaks, but how do you calculate that?
Stuff like that I can't figure out, and I don't even know where to start.