deathclassic

We probably just need a different approach to education in general, or just a reckoning of what values our society actually has. As much as I like to hate on teachers (because of bad experiences I had) they really are just the symptoms of an institutional/cultural problem. Reasons teachers get disrespected (and arguably deserve it):

- Education is a major studied by idiots who want to party in college.

- Western society is individualistic to a fault. The reason teachers get screamed at is because grades are seen as an attack on the character of a parents child (and used to evaluate and individuals worth). Since the parents refuse to believe that their little kid might just not have a high IQ or be lazy, clearly the teacher is at fault. Everyone wants to believe their little mini-me is a special snowflake, the bell curve proves otherwise.

- This narcissism and individualism, is also a feature of teachers. Hence, the constant self-aggrandization of being a glorified daycare worker by everyone in the profession.

- Teachers unions make it difficult to fire shitty teachers, even if there isn't a shortage of teachers. Just like cops, teachers look out for themselves.

- Good teachers get poached by private schools, that offer higher wages.

Institutional/Cultural problems that make education shitty:

- Property taxes fund schools. Rich suburban areas have well funded schools, poor inner city areas have underfunded schools that are falling apart. Guess which one attracts better teachers?

- The US is a large and very diverse country. Some populations here value education A TON, others do not. This is a reality that has to be acknowledge, and the standards of say, Silicon valley should not be applied to rural Texas. (my siblings took AP US history in Texas and they didn't even learn about the civil war)

- College is pushed on ALL students, and funding is partially determined by college admittance. Needless to say this is wasteful and partially contributed to many of the issues around student debt and credential inflation.

- Standardized testing is also a terrible mechanism for determining school funding. Teachers end up wasting a ton of time trying to teach to some arbitrary standardized test, and the students hate it as well.

Idk I could probably list more issues with education but those are a few off the top of my head.

"All children are extremely naturally gifted, it’s the world around that always manages to grind it out of most of them."

What a load of horseshit. Say that in the special education class with 8th graders that can't read or use the bathroom on their own, despite the best efforts and attention of their teachers.

I was put into montessori preschool at around age 4 after my mom caught daycare workers abusing me. I liked it, was a fun time and I figured out how to read at around a 4th grade level at 5. The issues started when I got taken out of that environment and put into a normal one when I started grade school. You see, my preschool teacher noticed that I had ADHD, but that didn't really matter in a Montessori environment. But in traditional school, this means you get in trouble a lot, get terrible grades, and I've been almost kicked out of every school I've been to. I found the transition to traditional structured school traumatic. This was in early grade school too, I can imagine the experience of going from Montessori school to traditional school in later grades to be impossible, like trying to socialize a feral cat or something.

Look OP, if you think school is about your kids learning you've got it very wrong. Wikipedia and arvix are for learning. School is state subsidized daycare, and social conditioning. Industrial society requires discipline, structure and obedience. Those values are not driven into a child's head in the Montessori, model. Do your kids a favor and get these things drilled into their heads early, before you have a bunch of intellectual bums laying around your house. Don't send your kids to Montessori school.

> My understanding is it occurs due to focusing on anaerobic exercise, which weight lifting is, and not also or not executing enough aerobic exercise, like swimming, running and calisthenics. As the heart gets larger, the heart chambers get smaller, pumping less blood and less oxygen, in the right circumstance leading to heart failure and death.

Zyzz is believed to have had a pee-existing heart condition, and used some fairly aggressive steroid cycles that would contribute to heart failure at an early age. Weight training on it's own usually isn't enough to cause this issues, and in general resistance training extends your lifespan and cardiovascular health, in addition to supporting better body composition. One can even reduce the risk involved in using PEDs if you take care to closely monitor a variety of health metrics and biomarkers to judge the risks involved.

Here's a list of all the stuff you should look into if you're thinking of doing something like this:

https://vigoroussteve.com/medical-screening-required-before-...

This actually, I struggled in the low tech environment. In grades school because I didn't have good handwriting (still don't) and access to word processors helped a bunch. I also pretty much have to teach myself everything from what I read off the internet, given the fact that I can't take notes very effectively and don't pay attention in class.

Drugs are the some of tools I use to make reality the coolest thing possible.