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On May 07 2014 09:40 Kalingingsong wrote:Show nested quote +On May 07 2014 09:35 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:On May 07 2014 09:27 Kalingingsong wrote:
you problem isn't that you have asian parents, it's that you have no money, and you have to rely on economic subsidies from someone else. He who has the $ calls the shots.
edit: if you think your parents are cutting you a shitty deal, why not just condemn/renounce them and go find some better parents? rofl false dichotomy, those things aren't mutually exclusive at all asian parents do have a certain nagging and uncompromising way of dealing with kids that really wears on you over time. the power structure is the big picture but the details of the interactions matter too Not sure if we are talking about the same thing. Ultimately, whether OP's parents are acting reasonably or not, the real source of their power is still their money. So practically the real question the OP should be concerned about is how to get his own money as fast as possible.
he isn't discussing the possibility of leaving his parents / gaining independence from them right now as a high school senior, what OP are you reading?
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On May 07 2014 09:42 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:Show nested quote +On May 07 2014 09:40 Kalingingsong wrote:On May 07 2014 09:35 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:On May 07 2014 09:27 Kalingingsong wrote:
you problem isn't that you have asian parents, it's that you have no money, and you have to rely on economic subsidies from someone else. He who has the $ calls the shots.
edit: if you think your parents are cutting you a shitty deal, why not just condemn/renounce them and go find some better parents? rofl false dichotomy, those things aren't mutually exclusive at all asian parents do have a certain nagging and uncompromising way of dealing with kids that really wears on you over time. the power structure is the big picture but the details of the interactions matter too Not sure if we are talking about the same thing. Ultimately, whether OP's parents are acting reasonably or not, the real source of their power is still their money. So practically the real question the OP should be concerned about is how to get his own money as fast as possible. he isn't discussing the possibility of leaving his parents / gaining independence from them right now as a high school senior, what OP are you reading?
I know that's not what he said, but I'm just suggesting the possibility.
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i'm pretty sure it's implied that he's going off to college in a few months, and i guess his independence from there depends on whether or not his parents pay him through (my parents paid me through but i think that made me care about my academics at college less for some reason)
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On May 07 2014 09:16 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:Show nested quote +On May 07 2014 06:46 IgnE wrote:
"Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual."
-William Torrey Harris, the most influential Commissioner of Education in US history that's total bullshit lol what a horribly simplistic masturbatory quotation i bet 99/100 wankers reading it think they're the 1/100 too
It's not aspirational. You don't seem to get it.
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On May 07 2014 09:59 IgnE wrote:Show nested quote +On May 07 2014 09:16 SpiritoftheTunA wrote:On May 07 2014 06:46 IgnE wrote:
"Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual."
-William Torrey Harris, the most influential Commissioner of Education in US history that's total bullshit lol what a horribly simplistic masturbatory quotation i bet 99/100 wankers reading it think they're the 1/100 too It's not aspirational. You don't seem to get it.
please explicate your interpretation of the quotation for me, with as much context as you think necessary, as well as what consequences follow said interpretation
what do you think is meant by "subsumption"?
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It's a quote from the man who was the spiritual founder of the American school system. It indicates the intended (and realized) design of the school system. You are supposed to be subsumed into the productive public.
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On May 07 2014 10:25 IgnE wrote:
It's a quote from the man who was the spiritual founder of the American school system. It indicates the intended (and realized) design of the school system. You are supposed to be subsumed into the productive public.
i don't see how this is deep at all
or how it has anything to do with this situation
what the fuck
like do you think america invented capitalism and working and the idea that kids grow up to work? what??!?!?!
god i hate you
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No, Germany invented modern schooling.
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do you realize how much of your own time you waste with worthless original thoughts
once you do maybe you'll realize how much of other's people's time you waste too
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You've never had one so I guess that's fair.
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I hope things get better.
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Advice for College: Hang out with smart people, it will make you smarter, it will be easier to study and you'll get more opportunities later. Of course, that doesn't prevent you from partying, but don't make the partying people your main friends.
As for now, chillax, you only have a few more months to go. Make sure your parents give you more breathing space in college, but don't end up not going to classes and not studying in time just because you can (or because have something fun to do - there's always something more fun to do out there but that doesn't mean you should quit studying).
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