Doesn't it become difficult to tell the difference when the message from the platform is approximately: "rage is permitted in the direction of foreign nationals from these two nations from 9am to 9pm tomorrow"?
Nope, I'm still baffled. I get the sense it might make some kind of sense looking back retrospectively after a few further events play out, but at the moment this continues to seem like a bizarre situation.
I lost 30kg in the past and the only thing that worked was lots and lots of exercise. The Internet meme is that exercise is useless for weight loss and you should diet: well, I like food, and exercise allows me a more free diet.
This is my experience to counter the inevitable: "It's 99% diet, don"t bother woth exercise".
Should tha baker have the right to refuse baking a gay wedding cake or some group has the power to decide what rights another group has? As a gay man the LGBT groups keep declining in the quality of their fights and, having survived their own usefulness, they invent fights that inevitably clash with others liberties and belief. No, I do need that cake, there are other bakeries.
Thank you for this anecdote. I think I have a pinched nerve in the neck, very painful and my anxiety and panic attacks started together with the pain but were unrelated, linked more with university workload. My totally unsupported and unscientific opinion is that the inflammation of the nerve make impossible for my nervous system to relax, hence the anxiety.
I think the success stories are mostly self-selection: parents who care enough about education to enroll their children in an alternative system will have children who care more.
Anecdotical data: in my non-US state everyone (admittedly 3 people) who went to Montessori schools were 3 years behind in every subject as compared to public schools and mostly they did fine with some help, but the difference between who did better or worse was, as you pointed, inherent personality that was completely independent from the education they received.
There is of course self-selection compared to going with the default, but your data may be poisoned.
I don't know the Montessori system, but in the Waldorf system, some of the intellectual stuff is moved from the first years to the later years compared to the public school. So if you compare midway on the public school metric, you'll find a gap.
Of course, if you compared midway on a Waldorf metric, you'll find that students from those public schools have a gap in the other direction.
I talked to a Waldorf school principal about this, and she said that if you enter the system at later grades, say halfway through, they could see that there are some things that such a child just don't learn.
Comments generally inform me about the content value and most of the time are even more interesting that the article, especially with the modern habit of writing 5 paragraphs of flowery prose where in the past we would have had a single informative sentence. So yes, most of the time I just read the title and the comments.
I've done this in the past, for example when choosing college: do I study Chemistry that I intuitively understand or do I study Physics that will be a challenge? I chose Physics and I will always regret it: there's something to be said in favor of training your strengths instead of mitigate your weaknesses.
Well in my case when choosing a college degree: do I study CS that I know I would be very comfortable with or do I study Computer Engineering which would be much more challenging since it requires EE classes? I chose Computer Engineering and I don't regret it one bit. Even though I still ended up in software, I feel like I have useful foundational knowledge about lower-level operation of computers that a lot of my peers don't have.
I have yet to start a career and I'm already at that point. The things I'm passionate about are just not monetizable or you need to be the 0.00000001% (without counting luck and connections) to make some profit.
