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I tried looking through Paradoxica's post history to try and find the conversation and relieve my deja vu stress
tbh someones post history is like a biography; i feel like i know so much more about him now lol
Nailgun is a sooper stalker now.
 

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My Science teacher was telling us about how when he taught at some dodgy East London school, a kid got stabbed by another kid with a sharpened plastic ruler.
 

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My Science teacher was telling us about how when he taught at some dodgy East London school, a kid got stabbed by another kid with a sharpened plastic ruler.
I've seen compasses used for similar purposes
Pretty sure there was a case of a primary school teacher injuring himself with "safety" scissors.
 

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We had a student teacher come in year 10, and he was going to show us the sodium + water prac. He cut himself on the tin when getting out the sodium, and it was a really deep cut (blood was dripping on the floor) but he refused a bandaid for some reason and just continued acting tough like nothing happened :p
 

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We had a student teacher come in year 10, and he was going to show us the sodium + water prac. He cut himself on the tin when getting out the sodium, and it was a really deep cut (blood was dripping on the floor) but he refused a bandaid for some reason and just continued acting tough like nothing happened :p
Our class chucked a medium block of sodium into water. Was a pretty good distraction from a wedding 200m or so away from us.


The other class, however, because their teacher is quite explosive despite appearing so calm, she decided to put a medium if not relatively large block of sodium into acid.

Was there a bucket by the end of it? No.
 

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Love is the antithesis of rationality. Mathematics is the purest form of rational thought. The greatest practitioners of mathematics, are also it's greatest lovers.
 

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Love is the antithesis of rationality. Mathematics is the purest form of rational thought. The greatest practitioners of mathematics, are also it's greatest lovers.
The stigma of hatred for maths has been established since ages ago. Whilst people might've been able to cope with elementary number theory, not many at all seem to appreciate the relationship between numeric and subsequently algebraic/geometric/... relationships
 

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I dropped a test tube
I dropped a whole rack of test tubes once, and as the teacher turned the corner to inspect the mess, he stepped on the glass shards with his BRAND NEW shoes (how convenient for me).... My marks were never the same again :bomb:
 

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My friend was tying to balance a conical flask on someone's head and of course it dropped and smashed. This was on the first day of year 7 btw :p
 

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I dropped a whole rack of test tubes once, and as the teacher turned the corner to inspect the mess, he stepped on the glass shards with his BRAND NEW shoes (how convenient for me).... My marks were never the same again :bomb:
I always hold a rack with two hands out of paranoia


RIP MARKS
 

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Today, while holding a rack of test tubes, one of them slipped out, bounced off the inward part of my pants, landed on my shoe, and rolled onto the ground, all without chipping even once.

Of course, that didn't mean anything later, since two measuring cylinders were broken by two other people.
 

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Love is the antithesis of rationality. Mathematics is the purest form of rational thought. The greatest practitioners of mathematics, are also it's greatest lovers.
Mathematics does not demand rationality. Some of the greatest mathematicians were also great musicians, artists, writers...

My understanding of mathematics is that it is an art, and like any art, it is difficult to truly appreciate by the laypeople.

Of course, it really doesn't help that "mathematics" in school is mostly a jumbled bunch of computational garbage with barely any artistic elements to it whatsoever.

Compounding that is the fact that people conflate mathematics with intelligence, and also the fact that it's applications are necessary for the functioning of society, so that's all we focus on in high school.
 

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Mathematics does not demand rationality. Some of the greatest mathematicians were also great musicians, artists, writers...

My understanding of mathematics is that it is an art, and like any art, it is difficult to truly appreciate by the laypeople.

Of course, it really doesn't help that "mathematics" in school is mostly a jumbled bunch of computational garbage with barely any artistic elements to it whatsoever.

Compounding that is the fact that people conflate mathematics with intelligence, and also the fact that it's applications are necessary for the functioning of society, so that's all we focus on in high school.
The capacity for rationality doesn't exclude the capacity for art, music or writing though. Nor does mathematics being an art-form imply a lack of rationality. That being said, you obviously are far more knowledgeable than I am in it's study so lel.
 
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