Why adults still dream about school
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Why adults still dream about school
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#2Because modern American public schools are basically prisons and traumatized kids.
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#3It's because school is a shitty, shitty place no matter if you go to a good one or a bad one.
No, there are no good schools.
High schools went downhill when teachers stopped spinning homespun silk
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#4Because modern American public schools are basically prisons and traumatized kids.
Yep. PTSD.
Future generations will look back in horror, if we're lucky.
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#6That is so fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
I was pretty traumatized with parental expectations in school. Starting from high school, to college, to graduate school, I always had the same dream at the start of semesters - I'm incredibly late to the first class to the point I basically miss it. It has a cascading effect where in the dream, I basically feel doomed to be behind all semester. I've never had this dream outside of when I was a student, and that includes a very long hiatus in finishing college.
This is story is one of those things where you read it and the explanation is so obvious, but it never hit you until you see it written out.
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#7This is quite real. I did EECS at Berkeley Engineering and I still have nightmares about not finishing something and this is close to 20 years later. I’m going to a BBQ next week with some of my classmates and I’m going going to ask them. A buddy went to West Point and he had similar nightmares. My guess is that it’s more prevalent in the very demanding and competitive STEM majors and probably architecture. I remember humanities classes as being a lot of work, nothing at Berkeley was easy, but manageable and nothing like the STEM load.
For my EE120 review session when we staggered in, the GSI consoled us saying if it meant anything, we’d done as much in one semester as he’d done in two and a half at his school and he was a Berkeley grad student which is insanely competitive to get into in its own right.
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#9Is this another American thing?
I don't know anyone who ever dreams about school (non-US obviously)
Re: Why adults still dream about school
#10It's because school is a shitty, shitty place no matter if you go to a good one or a bad one. No, there are no good schools. High schools went downhill when teachers stopped spinning homespun silk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_education_system
It's terrible that something that should have been wonderful was so painful for you. I've completed 11 years of post secondary spread pretty evenly over 30+ years of adulthood and loved it more and more as I've continued. Thinking about starting a PhD in year 50!