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Lucas Gallindo
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 A nice video I've found
The video is in Portuguese, then I translated its main idea
The video
Every bad student have ever asked to his/her teacher "How am I going to use this in my life?". Well, there are three answers most teachers give:
- You need this to do your entrance exam
- You need this, because every knowleadge is important and/or an example of an very, very especific use for that
- It improves your brain skills
And an explanation for each topic:
- Its the proof that it is useless
- If every knowleadge is important, why aren't you doing a Japanese course?
You used this knowleadge one time in your life. One.
- It looks like a Hollywood move, where there is a basketball player, (or whatever) training hard and achieve his goals, but real life is not 100% like this. What happends with an a class of students doing second degree equations? Who like that are going to success, and who does't like that
Most parents put their children in a system of 12 years (in Brazil) to make him/her a good person memorizing furmulas and other useless things to do an exam. It sounds like "What  "?! Isn't cooking more useful? First aid? Come on! We need to cook everyday. When do we balance equations? Use Bhaskara formula?
[introduction to ordenate and subordinate clauses] Have you ever heard that Portuguese is dificult? We really have many grammar rules, but there are two "classes" of grammar rules that are 10000% useless. They are called ordenate and subordinate clauses. They control the phrases' order. A person who speak Portuguese fluently doesn't need to know about it. Who cares if "the cat saw an aquarium full of fishes" is different from "The cat saw an aquarium which is full of fishes"?! It's the same thing  !!!
Gallindão
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RE: A nice video I've found
Lets talk cooking man!
If people could take effective care of themselves and their needs, who would pay top dollar to engineers who help mass production make more money?
I wanna make my own soap. I'll need to buy the oil, probably the essential oil too... what if we GREW OUR OWN FOOD!?!?!?!?
Where do you live man? We got cold winters here in the American midwest, and super hot summers. We grow corn.... snore
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RE: A nice video I've found
(08-30-2016 03:01 AM)the Analogist Wrote: I wanna make my own soap. I'll need to buy the oil, probably the essential oil too... what if we GREW OUR OWN FOOD!?!?!?!?
Where do you live man? We got cold winters here in the American midwest, and super hot summers. We grow corn.... snore
Whoa! You are being too sidereal! Growing food is different from Cooking. We grow corn in Brazil, too, but not in an individual way.
My father didn't use to cook invitingly when he met my mom. She taught him.
Gallindão
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RE: A nice video I've found
Check out Heirloom tomatoes. Thats my big thing.
Aside from buying the cheese, I make pizza from scratch, even the italian sausage. NOTHING is better than some heirlooms in your sauce
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