Good transition here, I'm reminded of that scene in Saving Private Ryan.

And if you want to feel old, ask people if they remember that movie.

Oh god, that came out 16 years ago.

In reply to Genghis the Hutt (msg # 107):

Part of that though is their home life. The bigger problem with education is trying to separate education into a school-only sort of thing, but there is so much that is learned implicitly at that age, that the parents have greater effect than the teachers, but the parents don't understand what they are teaching or even that they are teaching most of the time. And it is made worse by the strange ideas that have become common, such as no spanking, or "childhood is to be fun only, responsibility shouldn't be expected till older, and my favorite (sarcastically speaking of course) "nobody teaches responsibility, particularly with kids, they just expect it to start happening when the kids get old enough."

I was dressing myself and making my own breakfast at age 4, granted is was cereal or instant oatmeal, but still, I was already starting to take responsibility for myself. In fact you can generally tell children of single parents by the fact that such kids have maturity at substantially younger ages (not a bad thing in opinion).

I don't expect most kids to be at that point that young (I have autism, so I'm ahead of the pack in a few limited areas like this) but they should still reach that point quite a bit earlier then they do.

That said, education should be through games. I have never believed in "dry" instruction methods, neither for kids nor for older folks.

How about Little Rascals?

I loved that one as a kid. My girlfriend and I were talking about it recently, how it only came out 2 years ago (she thought we should experiment with a new rounding system where we divide by 10 and drop any fractions).

In reply to DarkLightHitomi (msg # 118):

In my opinion, education should also HEAVILY emphasize older students teaching their younger classmates.  Teachers should be there constantly at younger ages and then gradually less and less at older in case the older students need help.  So much good would come of this, it saddens me that we don't use it more often.

In reply to Malakan (msg # 120):

That makes a lot of assumptions, Malakan, about whether the older students would actually do any teaching to the younger students, instead of being evil little bastards who would see a chance to have power over someone weaker than them and abuse the hell out of it.

It would take work to set up a performing system... I grant you.  And there would be situations where it would not work and times where it would not work.  For some dark comedy, however, consider this...  what if I wrote your quote as follows:

That makes a lot of assumptions, srgrosse, about whether the adult teachers would actually do any teaching to the younger students, instead of being evil old bastards who would see a chance to have power over someone weaker than them and abuse the hell out of it.

To get the thread back on topic:  You know you're getting old when you can't refrain from jumping in on an argument about "kids these days".  :p

In reply to Malakan (msg # 122):

Well, since the teachers are actually employed, there are systems in place to deal with them if they're caught doing drek like that, and most of them love getting paid more than they love torturing those weaker than them. Children are concentrated evil.


And, back on topic as well: You know you're getting old if you prefer playing Contra without the Konami code to listening to pop music on the radio.

I never got past the second boss in Contra.  Then later I found out about that Konami code and I was just kicking myself.  Later, I downloaded an emulator and played it through on "can't die" just to see what the other bosses were like.

You know you're getting old when Top 40 radio no longer sounds terrible.  The other day, I was in a restaurant in Singapore and "Happy" came on, followed by "Let It Go."

You know you're getting old when you listen to you nephews latest house music cd and realise you can't tell where on song starts and another stops

In reply to jamat (msg # 127):

Try the Grateful Dead.  Same thing and a whole lot older.

Back when I first thought I was getting old the elevator music was regurgitated music from ten years after I really cared about pop music. Now it's regurgitated music that I NEVER EVER listened to.

In reply to Malakan (msg # 120):

Making no comment on my thoughts of this at the moment, but I'm curious as to your reasoning.

you realized the swordsman in the first Indiana Jones film just died!

Of course he did... Indy shot him.

Touche

the actor portraying him died

Yes he did ... Real life mirroring fiction ?

That is hilariously insensitive.

I heard that in... seven samurai? The actors died in the same order as in the movie, while in magnificent seven it was opposite? Idk I would have to look it up to be sure.

It was a bad day for me when I heard Nirvana on the "Classic Rock" radio station. @_@

Interesting story about classic rock. Just a few short years ago (say circa 1994 haha) music that was playing on classic rock stations is now being played on country stations.

In reply to Merevel (msg # 137):

Regarding Seven Samurai from IMDB:

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The only three samurai survivors, Shichiroji, Katsushiro and Kambei, were the first three title character actors to die in real life: Daisuke Katô; (Shichiroji) died in 1975, Isao Kimura (Katsushiro) died in 1981 and Takashi Shimura (Kambei) died in 1982. Whereas Minoru Chiaki, who played Heihachi, the first Samurai killed, was the last of the title character actors to die in real life (in 1999).

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