incidentally i'm not reading your posts, they are unnecessary, time consuming, and most importantly incomprehensibly stupid
That's okay. I write for the people who actually have things to say, such as this guy:
You play Blockland, don't even talk about wasting time...
lol'd
And this guy:
I can tell just from the bolded print that you're a bore to be around. Life isn't about being serious all of the time, devoting 100% of your time and energy into preparing for your future, and never being creative.
If you seriously think that a list of facts is more thought-provoking and interesting than a thrilling and detailed novel, you must have some sort of issue.
I don't know who taught you that life is just about a bunch of facts, but it isn't true. The world is beautiful and you cannot possibly enjoy the world's beauty to its full extent without being the least bit creative.
Good luck also, because you won't make it anywhere in the real world if you just look at images and graphs without reading what the image/graph is about.
You act like you either ONLY learn by visuals or ONLY learn by text when really, you should be doing both.
(summary at the bottom if you want to apply my way of learning, which you shouldn't, as you'd see why if you would read the entirety of what I wrote)Responses to your post by paragraph:
1) Learning is not seriousness. Causation is not correlation. A school environment is serious, and you learn there. This is where the misinterpretation of learning as serious comes from. Learning can be engaging and fun, so why not combine learning with fun everyday? If an activity is currently fun, but provides nothing for the future, but could be changed to teach a lesson or give helpful information, why not change it?
In my classes at school, nearly all of which are the higher-leveled classes, people like science and history - they like knowing facts - it's just what we all like. We live in one of the most demanding areas in the country, as says
this article, among others. We have grown up with the feeling to need to gain as much knowledge as possible whenever we can. Everyone has different views and interests, and we all like to talk about these. We enjoy talking the facts, and are quite intrigued, not bored, by these facts.
Also, preparation is not the same as garnering knowledge. Preparation is planning for the future, laying out steps for learning to succeed in the future. Increasing knowledge without preparation is what I enjoy. This involves sporadic quantities of knowledge learned "just 'cuz". One of my favorite Youtube subscriptions is a channel called Vsauce, who's main head (Michael Stevens) starts off talking about one cool fact, and slowly transitions from there to other, slightly related facts. In fact, in one of his videos, he once said that the people who watch his videos come there to learn something they didn't expect to learn.
1.5?) Funky kind-of-paragraph. Yes, a list of ideas /is/ more thought provoking than a thrilling (opinionated adjective) and detailed novel.
With a list of facts, one can question why the fact is like that, and think about the answer to that question. With a novel, taking fiction for example, you can't question the reason for anything beyond "What will happen next?" There is no thought necessary in a good novel, because the vocabulary is supposed to paint (inciting feelings of ease and lack of effort on the reader's part) an image in the reader's head. There isn't much thought beyond "What color is maroon?" when the author describes something.
2) Creativity does not specifically make the world beautiful. Creativity is someone's spin or interpretation of a fact. "The gentle, warm breeze caressed the young lady's soft, pale skin" is pretty sounding and all, but I just don't find it appealing.
For me, the beauty of the world isn't found in a book. It is found in the facts of the world. I find it beautiful that the surface of the Earth is 75% covered by water, that there are hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of arid deserts and freezing mountains, tundra unsuitable for human living, and yet we can fit seven billion people on the remaining land, with a projected twelve billion population max within the century.
That's beautiful, not some person's attempt to create emotions of beauty in our minds. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mind.
I'll turn the tables on you. You are driving with your parents in the car. Because you like books, you are reading in the back. You are staring at pages of black-typed words filling your head with stories of magic wizards and vampires and werewolves fighting over a girl (never read Twilight, but I think that is what the book is about), whereas I am looking out the window, staring at trees and mountains and birds and people. I am recalling the facts, that convergent plate motion created those mountains over the millennia, that trees create pollen that wafts through the air to create seeds or nuts, which in turn fall and create trees. I am seeing the beauty of nature, of the world. What are you doing, staring at a book? The world isn't in a book, the world is in the world. To understand the beauty of the world, you have to experience it. To experience it, you must know about it. To learn about it, you can read a book, or you can look at the facts. Which creates more intrigue with the world, a book (nonfiction) that gives you the answers, or the list of facts that leaves you wanting more (which you most verily end up seeking)?
3) A good graph, meaning one that has been properly labeled and keyed, can be understood without reading a description. These good graphs don't exist in the school setting, but they do in the professional world. I will succeed because I can quickly glance at these graphs, understand them, and be on to the next one by the time you have finished reading the description and are starting to look at the colors in the key.
I'll actually do quite well because I was raised on your method of learning - read every word of every page of a textbook, read every nook and cranny for information because more will be magically stored there. But, I also learned a new way. I'll have the ability to switch to either method whenever I need to because I am practiced in both.
When I was young and in elementary school, I was never one of the best students. I just couldn't get the information. Around fifth grade, I read about speed reading on the Internet. This gave me the idea that shortcuts could be taken to glean the information from an article in less time than it would take to actually read it all. One thing lead to another and I end up getting consistent C's on graded assessments. I was shortcutting too much. Over time, I learned the exact level of shortcutting, different methods for speed reading, methods for picking out buzz words from an article, and my grades reached A's. Then Junior year hit, I was infected with Senioritis from my brother, and the entire way of learning allowed me to apply very little effort to actual schooling. I haven't taken notes in years, I haven't read a textbook for the purpose of studying since 10th grade, and I haven't dipped below a B+ since then.
I hated writing the entirety of this post because I was forced to use a style of writing that I don't like, but that everyone seems to use on these forums. That style is of an aggressive, opinionated, extremist (embellishing the writer's opinion and knocking the opponent's), assumptive sort. I hate this, it causes people to go ape-stuff crazy over what was written. The absolute purpose of it is to try to degrade someone and their opinions. I also don't like talking about myself because it seems self-centered, but when people start making assumptions, creating false images, or completely stuff on me, I have to take action.
I again stress that just because I have a different way of learning that you doesn't mean I have a disability. There is NOTHING wrong with me nor anyone who is different than you. Would you like me to compare you to the Christian fundamentalists, who believe that their was the right way and that everyone else is wrong and will die in hell? Are you already a Christian fundamentalist? Okay, how about an Islamic fundamentalist, aka extremist, aka Anti-American terrorist? They believe their way is the only way and that everyone else that doesn't go their way HAVE TO burn in hell. How about the national socialists in Germany before and during WW2? Riddler believed that the "Aryan" race was the ONLY race that could live (blonde hair, blue eyes are not Aryans btw. Riddler was a dumbass.), everyone else should burn in an oven, then burn in hell.
Your way is not the right way, neither is mine. It is the way that works for our individual selves. You should not force it upon anyone else, nor should you discredit someone else's way. Whatever works for someone might not work for another, but works very well for the first individual.
Here is the summary:
1) No, I'm not boring.
1.5) Yes, facts provoke more thought than novels
2) You went off topic here, but the world isn't in a book either. The world is out there, and the facts can be used to find the typically unnoticeable phenomena prevalent throughout the world
3) Nope, I'll do just fine. In fact, I'll do better, because I was raised using the method you (and all of the school systems) like to use /and/ learned to learn from graphics, so I have /both/ methods under my belt, and I could switch to the other if ever necessary (which it won't every be). I covered the development of my method throughout my life.
Don't apply my method for yourself. Your method works for you, so use it.
And yes, what I have written here is indeed longer than the English essay I am supposed to be writing right now.
