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This site is a little project that lets me make fun of some things and sense of others. I use it to think a little more relationally without resorting to doing actual math.
Shout-out to Wisconsin: that circle should read “waste of time and money.”
jessica hagy, secretary of education – learnin’ our chilluns with common sensicals.
Replace “Learning” for “Education” and you got it down pat. As it is, they should overlap.
You’re confusing “schooling” with “education;” the latter is when people learn things, which is never a waste of time.
No, I guess I was using “education” as “the education system or process,” but I think that is better than how you confused “education” with “one’s own education.” I think the word all by itself is usually more affiliated with the “process of educating,” but given my limited schooling, I accept that I may be quite wrong about that.
Including the synapse between education and wasting time that is procrastination.
Agree with Rocky and Sean, above. As Mark Twain once said, “Don’t let school interfere with your education.” Of course, the use of words is different, but the spirit is the same.
Education is where you find it. Not all schools have good teachers, not all good teachers are found in schools, and no one should depend on either to become educated. The world is at your fingertips. Explore it. If you have kids, encourage them to do the same.
There could be a third field, “Television,” overlapping “Waste of Time” about 75% and marginally overlapping “Education,” with the latter overlap labeled “Sesame Street.”
Two words: kinesiology.
I believe the word school comes from Greek and means spare time – because the rich had plenty of spare time to kill reading books.
That aside, I believe an education in philosophy comes pretty darn close to being a waste of time. Unless, of course, being pretentious and jobless is your goal.
From what I’m seeing in the comments, there could be an ellipse labeled “School” that overlaps (from the inside) both “Education” and “Waste of Time”… because there are some things going on in schools that ARE a waste of time wedged in with the actual Education. But “School” is only a portion of “Education” (there could be LOTS of labeled circles inside “Education”, just as there would be inside “Waste…”).
As a public school employee, I can attest to the frustrating accuracy of your proposed revision.
I’d replace education with learning.
There’s so much more to “education” than just “learning”….
Education is not a waste of time. How you get that education might be, however. Like at school as opposed to the real world. Another thought: Can you waste your time and still learn a thing or two? Some people waste their time playing video games but are they learning something? The reason I ask: I love wasting time. Don’t you?
where these circles do overlap is “teachers showing movies in class”
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Love it. Also love how people juxtapose ‘school’ and the ‘real world’. Makes me enviously wonder what imaginary world their schools were in.
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