TrueHereticXWe are the future Charles, not them. They no longer matter.Sydney, AustraliaRegistered Userregular
I had the same History teacher all through school (though in year 11 and 12 she was my drama teacher). Her nickname was the Terminator, but damn she was good at getting us to study and do well.
One day in year 10 my friends and I wanted to get a rise out of her before a 40 minute period, so we used our tables to bang out the Terminator theme as soon as she walked in the door. She started laughing her ass off and just walked out. Didn't end up coming back in. Was a good bludge.
lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
my aforementioned World History teacher had us watch appropriate movies sometimes. Like "The Agony and the Ecstasy" and this movie about a british kid in a japanese war camp ohgod i forgot the name....
oh! "Empire of the Sun".
Great movies.
My later US History teacher was a great teacher as well. But tough. There was one point where all of her students all failed the same test. 3 times. it was the exam on the New Deal. She had wanted us to memorize and do the 5W's (can you tell who her history teacher was when she was in school?) for all of the New Deal programs. All of them. Impossible fucking test.
9th grade we did civics and 12th grade was american government and psychology. I loved my freaking school.
she was a million years old and she knew everything there was to know about history because she'd lived through it
way, way too obsessed with history to be teaching it at only a high school level. i always pictured some scandal where she'd been caught feeding off the blood of her grad students and had to flee the country in the dead of night, on leathery, bat-like wings
i want to switch majors to history when i go back to college but i am genuinely worried that i'm not smart enough to acquire a college degree
fandyien judging by your posts you seem like a clever dude
the ability to string together a coherent sentence is all that's strictly necessary. you can even use those sentences to express interesting ideas! uni will be a fucking breeze
We got to eat soup out of bread bowls and have sparkling cider and watch fucking Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
Best day I ever had in school.
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PharezonStruggle is an illusion.Victory is in the Qun.Registered Userregular
The FBI is prettttty terrible.
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PharezonStruggle is an illusion.Victory is in the Qun.Registered Userregular
edited May 2012
Although this guy was pretty cool:
"A secret police system may become a menace to free government and free institutions because it carries with it the possibility of abuses of power which are not always quickly comprehended or understood. The enormous expansion of Federal legislation, both civil and criminal, has made the Bureau of Investigation a necessary instrument of law enforcement. But it is important that its activities be strictly limited to the performance of those functions for which it was created and that its agents themselves be not above the law or beyond its reach.
The Bureau of Investigation is not concerned with political or other opinions of individuals. It is only concerned with their conduct and then only with such conduct as is forbidden by the laws of the united States. When a police system passes beyond these limits, it is dangerous to the proper administration of justice and to human liberty, which should be our first concern to cherish. Within them it should rightly be a terror to the wrongdoer." - Harlan Fiske Stone, Attorney General of the United States, May 9th, 1924
A shame Hoover was a huge scumbag and the current FBI is doing lovely entrapment "sting" operations and keeping tabs on all sorts of activists.
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Ubikoh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by thenRegistered Userregular
"A secret police system may become a menace to free government and free institutions because it carries with it the possibility of abuses of power which are not always quickly comprehended or understood. The enormous expansion of Federal legislation, both civil and criminal, has made the Bureau of Investigation a necessary instrument of law enforcement. But it is important that its activities be strictly limited to the performance of those functions for which it was created and that its agents themselves be not above the law or beyond its reach.
The Bureau of Investigation is not concerned with political or other opinions of individuals. It is only concerned with their conduct and then only with such conduct as is forbidden by the laws of the united States. When a police system passes beyond these limits, it is dangerous to the proper administration of justice and to human liberty, which should be our first concern to cherish. Within them it should rightly be a terror to the wrongdoer." - Harlan Fiske Stone, Attorney General of the United States, May 9th, 1924
A shame Hoover was a huge scumbag and the current FBI is doing lovely entrapment "sting" operations and keeping tabs on all sorts of activists.
I am going to be a high school history teacher, like 2 years away. A year if I get a good placement. I know dick about history, the children are our future and im fucking it up
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Ubikoh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by thenRegistered Userregular
i imagine being a teacher is a lot like being a lawyer
you don't have to know it, you just have to know how to look it up and repackage it
"A secret police system may become a menace to free government and free institutions because it carries with it the possibility of abuses of power which are not always quickly comprehended or understood. The enormous expansion of Federal legislation, both civil and criminal, has made the Bureau of Investigation a necessary instrument of law enforcement. But it is important that its activities be strictly limited to the performance of those functions for which it was created and that its agents themselves be not above the law or beyond its reach.
The Bureau of Investigation is not concerned with political or other opinions of individuals. It is only concerned with their conduct and then only with such conduct as is forbidden by the laws of the united States. When a police system passes beyond these limits, it is dangerous to the proper administration of justice and to human liberty, which should be our first concern to cherish. Within them it should rightly be a terror to the wrongdoer." - Harlan Fiske Stone, Attorney General of the United States, May 9th, 1924
A shame Hoover was a huge scumbag and the current FBI is doing lovely entrapment "sting" operations and keeping tabs on all sorts of activists.
My 11th grade history teacher used to be a paratrooper
he told a great story of when he was dropping down on an enemy landing strip
and hit a military jeep, right between the front window panes, with his teeth
fortunately, his buddies "neutralized" the people in the car before they could react
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
About two months ago at the middle school I work at the teacher of the special education classroom I am assigned to broke down crying in front of us for a few minutes.
Apparently the day prior an other teacher had yelled at her for be worthless & incompetent and it finally hit her.
American education system.
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Ubikoh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by thenRegistered Userregular
there's no crying in teachball
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
If you're saying, "hmm i don't think I can handle college, I am going to pursue alternative means" then you're doing a shitload better than a lot of people.
Then again I don't live in the USA so maybe you really need a college degree of some kind?!
aren't grad schools generally pretty concerned about grades though?
except MFA programs, they don't really give a fuck as long as your portfolio is good (as appropriate)
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
I've never been able to function in a classroom. By the time I hit eighth grade I'd already been kicked out of three schools. I actually have two semesters under my belt, one as an english major and one as a theater major. Just can't hack it, I guess, even with a joke arts major.
My five year Historical Education covered a pretty broad time period of stuff actually, though usually limited to this island or the one next door.
- The Roman Empire
- The Battle of Hastings
- The Normans come to Ireland
- Medieval England's control of the Pale
- Scotland's messed up attempt to ally to Ireland against the Edwards
- The Reformation and Henry the Eighth
- The Spanish Armada's aftermath and all the ships wot crashed around Ireland
- The Flight of the Earls and the Ulster Plantation
- The English Civil War, leading to:
- Oooooooooliver Crrromwell, Lord Protector of England (And his warts!) and his naughtyness in Drogheda
- James II vs William III, Siege of Derry, Battle of the Boyne, the Penal Laws disenfranchising non-Anglicans
- A brief stint covering the Wolfe Tones rebellion of 1798
- The Great Famine and Emmigration
- The Home Rule struggle
- Rising industrialism, a little bit about the Titanic
- A little bit about World War I regarding how it postponed Home Rule
- The Easter Rising
- The Anglo-Irish War, Partition, the Irish Civil War
And then at GCSE we studied the Troubles, History of Medicine and Weimar/Nazi Germany.
I am not a dude who can remember dates, like, at all. I remember like logical systems and stories very well, but things like Nero's exact birthday or just individual facts for rote memorization screw me up pretty bad.
So I always did really awful in history class, even though I love history.
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Indie Winterdie KräheRudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered Userregular
Which dragging us back into real history, brings us to Lord Cochrane, a big inspiration for both Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower
Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão, GCB, ODM (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831,[1][2] was a Scottish naval flag officer and radical politician.
He was a daring and successful captain of the Napoleonic Wars, leading the French to nickname him Le Loup des Mers ('The Sea Wolf').
One of his most notable exploits was the capture of the Spanish xebec frigate El Gamo, on 6 May 1801. El Gamo carried 32 guns and 319 men, compared with Speedy's 14 guns and 54 men.[10][11] Cochrane flew an American flag to approach so closely to El Gamo that its guns could not depress to fire on the Speedy's hull. This left the Spanish with no option but to board. However, whenever the Spanish were about to board, Cochrane pulled away briefly and fired on the concentrated boarding parties with his ship's guns. Eventually, Cochrane boarded the Gamo, despite still being outnumbered about five to one, and captured her.
In Speedy's 13-month cruise, Cochrane captured, burned, or drove ashore 53 ships before three French ships of the line under Admiral Charles-Alexandre Linois captured him on 3 July 1801. During his time as a prisoner Linois often asked him for advice and Cochrane later referred to how polite he was in his autobiography.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
About two months ago at the middle school I work at the teacher of the special education classroom I am assigned to broke down crying in front of us for a few minutes.
Apparently the day prior an other teacher had yelled at her for be worthless & incompetent and it finally hit her.
i imagine being a teacher is a lot like being a lawyer
you don't have to know it, you just have to know how to look it up and repackage it
That is not true at all?
I think a sound knowledge is always helpful and at least a decent understanding is required. Being able to respond to the requirements of your students and also to present your research it in a suitable manner are of prime importance.
Linked to this is an attitude of not acting or feeling that you need to know everything immediately and that you can and will seek to further your knowledge. Certainly, it's the kind of attitude you want to foster in your students
I haven't seen that, but I'm pretty sure it isn't.
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
is that Belfast, RMS?
have you been to the new titanic museum if yes? my mom's a bit of a titanic (and all disasters really) nut, and from the brief pictures I've seen I think she would find the new museum absolutely fascinating
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One day in year 10 my friends and I wanted to get a rise out of her before a 40 minute period, so we used our tables to bang out the Terminator theme as soon as she walked in the door. She started laughing her ass off and just walked out. Didn't end up coming back in. Was a good bludge.
oh! "Empire of the Sun".
Great movies.
My later US History teacher was a great teacher as well. But tough. There was one point where all of her students all failed the same test. 3 times. it was the exam on the New Deal. She had wanted us to memorize and do the 5W's (can you tell who her history teacher was when she was in school?) for all of the New Deal programs. All of them. Impossible fucking test.
9th grade we did civics and 12th grade was american government and psychology. I loved my freaking school.
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Awesome...
she was a million years old and she knew everything there was to know about history because she'd lived through it
way, way too obsessed with history to be teaching it at only a high school level. i always pictured some scandal where she'd been caught feeding off the blood of her grad students and had to flee the country in the dead of night, on leathery, bat-like wings
fandyien judging by your posts you seem like a clever dude
the ability to string together a coherent sentence is all that's strictly necessary. you can even use those sentences to express interesting ideas! uni will be a fucking breeze
We got to eat soup out of bread bowls and have sparkling cider and watch fucking Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
Best day I ever had in school.
A shame Hoover was a huge scumbag and the current FBI is doing lovely entrapment "sting" operations and keeping tabs on all sorts of activists.
Stone was a baller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footnote_4#Footnote_Four
i wanna take this class
you don't have to know it, you just have to know how to look it up and repackage it
pretty much
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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more on activist entrapment:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-long-con/Content?oid=7989613
he told a great story of when he was dropping down on an enemy landing strip
and hit a military jeep, right between the front window panes, with his teeth
fortunately, his buddies "neutralized" the people in the car before they could react
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Apparently the day prior an other teacher had yelled at her for be worthless & incompetent and it finally hit her.
American education system.
Not smart enough or can't apply yourself? I know some fucking stupid people with college degrees
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Then again I don't live in the USA so maybe you really need a college degree of some kind?!
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
it's true
aren't grad schools generally pretty concerned about grades though?
except MFA programs, they don't really give a fuck as long as your portfolio is good (as appropriate)
- The Roman Empire
- The Battle of Hastings
- The Normans come to Ireland
- Medieval England's control of the Pale
- Scotland's messed up attempt to ally to Ireland against the Edwards
- The Reformation and Henry the Eighth
- The Spanish Armada's aftermath and all the ships wot crashed around Ireland
- The Flight of the Earls and the Ulster Plantation
- The English Civil War, leading to:
- Oooooooooliver Crrromwell, Lord Protector of England (And his warts!) and his naughtyness in Drogheda
- James II vs William III, Siege of Derry, Battle of the Boyne, the Penal Laws disenfranchising non-Anglicans
- A brief stint covering the Wolfe Tones rebellion of 1798
- The Great Famine and Emmigration
- The Home Rule struggle
- Rising industrialism, a little bit about the Titanic
- A little bit about World War I regarding how it postponed Home Rule
- The Easter Rising
- The Anglo-Irish War, Partition, the Irish Civil War
And then at GCSE we studied the Troubles, History of Medicine and Weimar/Nazi Germany.
So I always did really awful in history class, even though I love history.
Which dragging us back into real history, brings us to Lord Cochrane, a big inspiration for both Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower
53 ships taken out in 13 months is, what, just under one per week? It's amazing that the French didn't just kill him.
That is not true at all?
I don't understand
I think a sound knowledge is always helpful and at least a decent understanding is required. Being able to respond to the requirements of your students and also to present your research it in a suitable manner are of prime importance.
Linked to this is an attitude of not acting or feeling that you need to know everything immediately and that you can and will seek to further your knowledge. Certainly, it's the kind of attitude you want to foster in your students
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Was a passenger ferry for White Star Liners. It ended up in Paris:
As a restaurant. Then the owner died, and she was bought by the city that built this big ship:
She arrived in 2006:
And then began being restored:
And while not complete, is looking officially baller:
The last White Star Line ship afloat, in the town she and her sisters were built.
have you been to the new titanic museum if yes? my mom's a bit of a titanic (and all disasters really) nut, and from the brief pictures I've seen I think she would find the new museum absolutely fascinating
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