Yup and as kids we laughed at the stupidity of the people who believed the Emperor was wearing clothes. We couldnt understand how it could be so when it was so obvious the Emperor was naked. Maybe it should be required reading in schools right through 12th grade with course work involved. Perhaps an entire new series of classes on how to think critically and logical argument. It can come right after civics and before the ancient philosophers.
Yeah, we all thought it was a silly story that had no practical use.
Perhaps they should have used to compare the mind set of people during, say, Russian Revolution, or World Wars, or Chinese Cultural revolution etc to show us how people could follow stupid ideology blindly.
Our schools are so broken :(
By design. Education system has always been a way to create a serf class even from the colonial times.
Fully aware that its by design. Even when I was in HS in the 70s and 80s I knew the schools were broke. I thought it was incompetence then. But since my kids were in HS I have known better.
More like "This is a banana. If don't see a banana you are dumb, if you see a different fruit you are insane, if you see an apple you are a terrorist."
"Emperor's New Clothes" was exactly about the current situation
Don’t be a banana misinformationist
You know, I have had that exact same thought many times.
Yup and as kids we laughed at the stupidity of the people who believed the Emperor was wearing clothes. We couldnt understand how it could be so when it was so obvious the Emperor was naked. Maybe it should be required reading in schools right through 12th grade with course work involved. Perhaps an entire new series of classes on how to think critically and logical argument. It can come right after civics and before the ancient philosophers.
Our schools are so broken :(
Yeah, we all thought it was a silly story that had no practical use.
Perhaps they should have used to compare the mind set of people during, say, Russian Revolution, or World Wars, or Chinese Cultural revolution etc to show us how people could follow stupid ideology blindly.
By design. Education system has always been a way to create a serf class even from the colonial times.
Fully aware that its by design. Even when I was in HS in the 70s and 80s I knew the schools were broke. I thought it was incompetence then. But since my kids were in HS I have known better.
wtf is this emporer's clothes thing people keep banging on about. is it an american thing?
Dude, you haven't read it? Gotta read it, its almost like they were talking about now. I read it growing up in India - I assumed everyone did too.
Enjoy it
oh wow no never heard of that. Just read it and it's really good! Thanks, I will be doing an audio reading of it on my Youtube soon!
More like "This is a banana. If don't see a banana you are dumb, if you see a different fruit you are insane, if you see an apple you are a terrorist."
We're not going to fall of a banana in the tailpipe.
Conspicuous absence of oranges in this fruity discussion, just sayin'.
And nuts. Absence of nuts.
*Domestic Terrorist