yes i am a jerk, more proof

so i was out with some lovely English strangers last evening, really friendly group, quite ecclectic. anyway, we were chatting about my favourite subject, education. and this one girl starts on 'like in first year, i mean i only took grammer in grade 7...' and i thought she was going to say something like but whatever, i learned and am more interested in training my engagement in cultural studies... or something, but she was saying that she thought there should be a first year grammer class...sadly i had already started my diatribe on how its such bullshit that students expect everything to be spoon fed to them and that there is a thing called independant learning and that its complete crap these kids who come in with substandard educations and demand that the standards be lowered so that they can get in too...because i means that those of us who go a highschool education have to sit through three years of mundane spoonfeeding before we can take our topics and directed readings and blah blah blah... of course its about the time that im whining about stupid people lowering standards that i realise that she had made an argument to lower standards...shit. and of course she's a sweet thing that wanted to chat with the others present, and there i go being an asshole.


but it is true isn't it? the problem i mean of lowering standards, saying i don't understand this because i wasn't trained to do this, so you should train me to do this...rather than me saying hey i don't understand this because i never learned this...maybe i should go do this to catch up with the rest of those people who already have an elementary school education. I'll be honeest, i would tell a student who wrote a shitty paper that it was shitty, their ideas mundane and unoriginal and unspurning. i mean even if its not an original idea, your argument for it should be engaged and interesting...come on.

but whatever, im mostly an epitome of the antisocial.

and another thing. someone was trying to tell me that they didn't think that grad students should be expected to know literary theory "i mean its hard stuff, they should have classes on it" WHAT! what is the post undergraduate degree that most english majors get after the BA called...oh yea and MASTERS...implying perhaps that they should in someway be a master or something ridiculous like that...okay im just ranting now. its too beautiful in the sun for this

oeace