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My teacher...
I really dislike my teacher for history of early civilization online. First of all she is a feminist and a sports fan. About 75% pf the class material that she writes is about women in history, and the rest is about what we are actually supposed to be learning. I really do get it, women weren't treated well in history, but I'm not in a class titled "Women in History". Almost every week she does a recap, unless her sports get in the way of doing it, addressed to the entire class to give them an insight on how well they understand the material. Do you know what the recap was for our discussion on cave men? It was about 3 paragraphs of why everyone is a feminist, that feminists in the 60's and 70's gave modern feminists a bad name, etc. I was seriously sitting at my desk going "What in the world am I reading?!!" I think she vaguely mentioned cave men in the 4th paragraph. It was ridiculous. As for the sports thing, she absolutely will NOT respond to students, and will not grade anything on the days where her favorite teams play. wth? What's more important, helping students or sports? Maybe she should be a coach instead of a history teacher. <br><br>She's also very immature for her age. I estimate she must be between 30 or 40 since she has 4 kids. She'll use chat speech like "lol" and a LOT of what she writes is fragmented. Her favorite phrase must be "make sense" and it drives me insane. <br><br>This week she posted a just-for-fun discussion where the students are supposed to analyze a quote from what we learned this week(China and India's religions and philosophies). The whole thing is about appropriately interpreting the quote in the way the original person meant it.<br>This is EXACTLY what she puts, large bold font and all:<br>
<br><br>Okay, I've seen that quote before, and it wasn't attributed to Buddha when I saw it. I doubled checked, and it always seems to be attributed to Confucius, which is one of the people we are learning about this week(we are also learning about Buddha). My problem with it being misattributed is that I can't really begin to try to figure out what the original person meant, if I don't know who the original person was, and what their views were. If Hitler said that quote, then I guarantee people would interpret it a LOT differently than if Confucius said it.<br><br>My response: <br>Hi Cyber-students:<br>Obviously, I like historical quotes. BUT, if we cannot place them into proper context, the meaning can become skewed or misleading. One of my favorites for Buddha is (what do you now think he meant): <span style="font-weight:bold"><span style="font-size:150">“Mankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.” Buddha</span></span>
<br><br> I expected her to double check her sources, and then clarify who said it(since I'm not even 100% sure Confucius said it), but instead she ignores me and responds to all the other students, still talking about Buddha. Wow...<br><br> So, what do you guys think? Also, do any of you happen to know exactly where the quote came from? I've seen plenty of sites attribute it to Confucius, but it would be more helpful to know if it was just a common phrase, or if it actually came from some of his writings.Maybe it's often attributed wrongly, and thus my assumption is wrong, but I was under the assumption that this is a quote from Confucius. I've seen it posted on animal/pet websites before.<br><br>I could think of a few interpretations for this quote. The first would be that humans and animals are not that different, but people throw away that difference, and choose to behave as simply as animals, instead of using their full potential. The other interpretation I get from this quote is opposite of my first interpretation. The quote could mean that humans and animals are not that different, but we forget that and try to forcibly separate ourselves into something above everything else. I personally prefer my second interpretation, though I have no idea if that is what was truly meant.
I'm done with VP. I'll just be around until I get all my dogs and lines placed in good hands. If you want to contact me, please do so through deviantART.
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