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I really liked some of Hitler's paintings. Anything that's not a building, yeah, looks kind of flat and lifeless and mundane, but I find his buildings are done with such precision and detail that they almost look more like architectural or archaeological impressions. As someone who works in technical drawing and studied it at school, and who isn't a great student of fine art at all...I like his buildings.
I wonder in another version of history he could have been an architect?
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he might be embarassing in a different way. ( specifically, he might have ended up as that relative who gets drunk, shoots off their mouth about their bigoted views, and makes you cringe.)
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Can't recall where, but I saw a webcomic where someone tries to get Hitler "out of the picture", but doesn't want to kill him. Using a time machine, they arrange for him to get a scholarship at an Ohio art college, with an embarrassing consequence - he's now their uncle.
Of course, in an edited timeline where Hitler wound up as a "never heard of him" mid-grade commercial artist instead of a dictator responsible for millions of deaths, having him as an uncle wouldn't be embarrassing.
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Yeah, I think that's how it went. He was rejected into an art school, and whether or not this at least partly lead to his descent into madness, I'm sure he was destined for that art school or no art school. He definitely had a very poor outlook on any kind of abstract or modern art, though, given his treatment of Dadaism and Bauhaus.
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Originally posted by TheHuckster View PostI hate to Godwin the thread, but isn't that exactly the kind of crap that inspired Hitler to pursue a reign of incomparable terror? (Only the other way around; he produced uninspired Bob Ross-esque paintings when his teachers failed him for not doing something a little more creative)
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Originally posted by AccountingDrone View PostI had an art teacher in one of the years of public school I did. I do surrealism and 3d art [ceramic based] as my preferred styles or materials. He was seriously into the same style crap the art guy with the fro on TV did. If it wasn't 1890 French Academy of the Arts worthy, it got failed.
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Originally posted by AccountingDrone View PostI had an art teacher in one of the years of public school I did. I do surrealism and 3d art [ceramic based] as my preferred styles or materials. He was seriously into the same style crap the art guy with the fro on TV did. If it wasn't 1890 French Academy of the Arts worthy, it got failed.
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If I rode the bus, I would leave. Sorry, but I am not going to be stuck at school cause the teacher wants to play Sargent. Actually, one good thing about my dad is that he would not take that nonsense. He would call the school up and have a fun time reaming them.
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The fuck is it with chemistry teachers? One of mine from secondary school was like this too.
I remember outwardly defying him once, just once. I had a doctor's appointment straight after school - I may be remembering it wrong but I really do think it wasn't just a basic doctor's appointment, it was with the neurologist to get the results of my EEG and thus my diagnosis of epilepsy - and he was doing his old shit of dragging it on because of the actions of a few arses. I was packed up, coat on, cleared up, ready to go. I'd told him earlier that week, the beginning of the lesson, during the lesson, just before the bell rang, and he was fine with me leaving on time - but nope, it got to five-ten minutes after the end of school...
And I just left. I turned and headed for the door. He told me to get back to my place. I reminded him, again, that I was ALREADY LATE for my appointment.
I can't exactly remember how the argument went down. But I remember one thing: He threatened me with detentions and demanded I return. Quoth 14-year-old me? "Make me."
Petulant and anti-authority, never change ya silly girl :eyeroll: I didn't mean to be undermining, but I had an appointment, damnit. I heard that the rest of my classmates began leaving after I did. I heard nothing afterwards about it, and I think that may have been because I found my parents at reception trying to work out where I was and why I was late out. I think they put in a complaint and he couldn't retaliate. And didn't get taught by him again past the end of that year.
Collective punishment is a steaming pile of shit. My housemate's manager does this, yelling at least weekly at an office full of adults for something so slight as giggling too loudly. If that wench had been my manager I would have been fired long ago for telling her to shut the goddamned hell up and punish the guilty in fucking private.Last edited by MadMike; 05-17-2015, 05:48 AM. Reason: Please don't quote the entire post. We've already read it.
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Originally posted by protege View PostMy grade-school music teacher was like that. We had his class one day a week, and to him, it was the most important thing ever. So important, that he'd keep us *late* every damn day. That might have not been important if we were in say, 1st or 2nd period...but closer to lunch or at the end of the day? You'd either get to lunch late you barely had time to eat, or you'd have to chase the bus as it pulled away.
Same guy would hold up band students, and try to prevent them from leaving his class. At the time, band had an odd schedule, which didn't correspond to other classes. Most teachers were understanding if we suddenly needed to leave. Not this guy. As some of us were leaving for band, he thought he'd block the door...only to be told to fuck off and get shoved out of the way. Oddly, we never got into trouble for that.
While I like classical music, I really didn't give a shit about it as much as he did. In fact, nobody really did, mostly because it was boring as hell. Reading about the same composer or piece for weeks on end simply sucked.
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I will say, all the parent comment cards were wondering why almost all my projects were failed
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Our state won't let anyone under 16 drop out, and most students do so just because they can. Most of the time, parents don't even have to come to the school, and if a student is good enough at forging his parents' signatures, the parents never have to know at all. I only know of one student who dropped out for a good reason and that was because she had to work and take care of her four younger siblings. While I agree that students shouldn't be forced to go to school after a certain age, it definitely shouldn't be that easy to just stop going.
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Our local school system starts middle school at fifth grade.
I'm the opposite about making it harder to drop out. You can make people attend school, but you can't make them learn if they don't want to. Let people drop out after, say, 9th grade if they want to, but also make it easier to go back and finish later without penalty. Not with those who are still school age, though.
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Yeah, it's something that would be excellent if the whole educational system was revamped to begin with. Teachers would be paid more, districts wouldn't be so complicated (I lived six miles from a school I couldn't go to and had to ride the bus for 45 minutes (I was the last to be picked up as well) to the next nearest school), PTOs would replace the overpaid school boards (even better was what my elementary school had, a PTSO, including the students for feedback), and more field trips.
Anyone wanna vote for me for president? XD
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Originally posted by Aragarthiel View PostPersonally, I believe that educational funding should be dependent on each student's needs. For example, you'd invest more in a student who isn't doing well so that he has the resources to get better (an extra set of textbooks to take home, plus an "allowance" for things like pencils and paper, and his teachers get paid slightly more for staying after school to help him). But if a student is doing well, you give them what they need for the year. It would be a simple process, really. At the end of each year, the teacher writes up how much help each student needs in what areas (which determines how much is spent per student), then an amount is added to the student totals to cover day-to-day operations at the school, and that's sent off to determine how much money each school gets each year. But, alas, this shall never happen.
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