As a child, my school evaluated all students’ IQs, and the ones above a certain score were labeled “MGM” (mentally gifted minors) and put into “gifted” classes. Nothing has held me back more in life than being told I’m objectively smarter than someone else.
It has taken years to respect the virtue of discipline in learning. Throughout school, and then into adult life, if something didn’t come easily to me, I would abandon it instantly, because the notion of having to work for a skill was so foreign to me.
We should never praise the child (you’re so smart), we should praise their effort (great work on this).
Yeah same here. It fucks you up. Bothing wrong with evaluating children to see who might struggle and who might have an easier time. But these separate classes and being told that the classes are gifted is the issue.
I always struggled feeling dumb for the things i didn’t know while watching the friends my sister had - who absolutely knew for certain they were the smartest people around - trying to eat glue.
I feel like as a kid I was in the mid/low yellow and now I’m in the blue and that’s probably true for basically everyone because we centre education right in the part of our lives when we’re least motivated to learn things. Now I’m actually mature enough to understand how cool things like history and mathematics can be but I’m also past any form of public education.
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lets be honest, we all think we’re in the blue, when we’re probably in the mid low yellow
As a child, my school evaluated all students’ IQs, and the ones above a certain score were labeled “MGM” (mentally gifted minors) and put into “gifted” classes. Nothing has held me back more in life than being told I’m objectively smarter than someone else.
It has taken years to respect the virtue of discipline in learning. Throughout school, and then into adult life, if something didn’t come easily to me, I would abandon it instantly, because the notion of having to work for a skill was so foreign to me.
We should never praise the child (you’re so smart), we should praise their effort (great work on this).
Yeah same here. It fucks you up. Bothing wrong with evaluating children to see who might struggle and who might have an easier time. But these separate classes and being told that the classes are gifted is the issue.
Yeah, we are all a bunch of scarred weirdos. o/
Fuck… I’m too colorblind to tell if I should be flattered or offended
Try both, at a frequency of 0.2 Hz
Alladeen!
if you’re smart enough to know how dumb you are, you’re not that dumb.
or something idk
I always struggled feeling dumb for the things i didn’t know while watching the friends my sister had - who absolutely knew for certain they were the smartest people around - trying to eat glue.
I feel like as a kid I was in the mid/low yellow and now I’m in the blue and that’s probably true for basically everyone because we centre education right in the part of our lives when we’re least motivated to learn things. Now I’m actually mature enough to understand how cool things like history and mathematics can be but I’m also past any form of public education.
I’m in the green and it mostly blows chunks, for what it’s worth.