Comment by gcb

15 years ago

so precise it's scary.

Dropped out of the prestigious, public, academia in brazil. and after my second (failed) company got my degree from one of the smaller, less prestigious ones. Had lots of experimentation though

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zalew  15 years ago

I don't know if it's too much offtopic, because it's about elementary school, but hey, let's go: I went to first 2 classes of a private school in Sao Paulo in '89-'90. I was a smart kid and had 9.5-10.0 average (0-10.0 scale) despite I had to learn the language at first. One day in class, the teacher of biology (or sth like that) started talking about fish and stated that a dolphin is a fish. I argued with her saying it's a mammal, she said I was wrong, I didn't give up, but for the moment it was case closed. After a few days on the next lesson with her, she raised the topic once again to say that I was partly correct, because a dolphin is a "mammal-fish". We've had a laugh with my parents to this day, and I was always wondering how high school and college education works around there if a science teacher in elementary school can be so dumb. Our education system in Poland is far from perfect, not to say completely broken, but I must say that at least teachers in elementary have the basic knowledge not to miseducate kids.

  • gcb  15 years ago

    haha i can relate to that too.

    on 3rd grade i argued with my science teacher when she 'taught' us that the Moon was bigger than Earth. or something as bad as that.

    She kept her point and i mine until she sent me to the principal for disrupting her class. Principal lost words when i explained her the reason I was there