re: #602 Obdicut

Oh, in the romans and fighter jets, I think what you’re overlooking is a lot of kids assume technology has been around forever— when they don’t think it was all invented yesterday. History of technology has to actually get caught. So that’s the spirit I interpreted it in.

I think so too. I think it speaks to the cultural stuff I was talking about; I also think a huge part of the problem is our general societal attitude towards teenagers, how we treat them as potential rapist-murderer-sociopath-punk-useless-fuckers, while demanding they be celibate-generous-honest-obedient-angels.

My issue is that kids assume all technology has been around forever, and they also assume that what they believe is true. Teachers are dumbasses.

Just did a project on cave art, and after all the looking at resources, and talking about the culture, a kid draws a guy in a cowboy hat riding a horse. I point out that this society did not ride horses., we’ve talked about how far off domesticating horses is. The kid says, “Yes they did.”

I’ll delete the rest of the conversation. It went about as well as the one with the kid who drew Vikings in an eighteenth century Pirates of the Caribbean galleon with cannon. When told to redo it, and draw one like the ones we had studied in detail he told me I was stupid.