this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
464 points (98.5% liked)
People Twitter
4153 readers
332 users here now
People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
- Mark NSFW content.
- No doxxing people.
- Must be a tweet or similar
- No bullying.
- Be excellent to each other.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That sounds awesome. I really like the Greek myths, (I was even into them as a kid) but the course I took was kinda boring because it was a huge lecture course instead of a seminar. I mean, I'm glad a got a look at a large swath of material but it would've been more enjoyable digging deeper into a subset. And maybe the themes would've stuck better in my brain a little better too.
It really sucks that schools and universities take something as amazing and entertaining as Greek mythology and makes it as boring as possible.
They teach it at the grade school level and remove all the sex... and Greek myths are like 90% sex.
One of my middle-school English classes handed out a list of Shakespearean insults and paired us off to stand up in front of the class and have, essentially, a rap battle trading insults appropriate to the person. I was paired off with a girl I legitimately didn't like very much and I got a little bit personal with her and she fired back with absolute venom. I'm not gonna lie, she fucked me up. I remember she called me "hind-bred."
My courses weren't censoring anything-- all the sex and murder was included. It was just that we were plowing through 1500 pages of material instead of say, doing close analysis on like half of that.
No, I was talking about when grade school does it, not a college-level class. They just make it boring, like you said, by giving you a ridiculous amount to read.