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bugmaster ∞ Feb 1, 2015 @ 2:30pm
society's bias towards vertebrates
Have you ever been tought in school that the main groups of animals are mammals, birds, amphibians, fish, and reptiles. That is complete $#!%. First of all, fish is not one class. It is a clade containing 5 classes. Jawless fish, cartilaginous fish, ray fined fish, lobe-fined fish, and armored fish (extinct). Second, those are just all the vertebrates. Third, those are just 9 of the thousands of classes of animals in 35 different animal phyla. Why dont they teach you all the classes in subphylum chelicera as the main classes of animals. Or what about subphylums mandibulata or cehpelochordata. Or better yet, teach kids about all 35 different animal phyla, or at least all the major ones. This is all because of the society's bias twards vertebrates as the ultimate animals. People think invertebrates are all worthless, bad, useless, gross , filthy, ugly and not important to learn about in schools. Schools either shove all invertebrates into one catagory or don't talk about them at all. It really pisses me off. Why do people treat vertebrates like there the only animals worth mentenioning. I feel bad for obscure animal phylum like sipuncula or rhombozoa. What do you think of all this? Do you know why society is so bias?
Last edited by bugmaster ∞; Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:45pm
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Saint Pablo Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:48pm 
Originally posted by Zespri:
>Implying the purpose of school is to bring intelligent citizens to society.
It's more like a daycare nowadays.They just tell you to memorize everything instead of actually teaching you useful things.
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bugmaster ∞ Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:51pm 
Originally posted by Greed:
Originally posted by Dr. Class:
Sorry,
But,

I really don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about invertebrates.
I don't care if I'm taught about all the animals and their skeletal structures.
Never in my life will I think back and go,
"Wow,
I'm so glad I know about each kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species that man so self-righteously labeled,
I'd much rather spend my life understanding the bodily make-up of every organism,
Then to actually make the most of my life before I reach my last days,
Lest I realize how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless everything I have ever learned, or aspired to know, has become, in the face of the abyss."
Because learning all these little things sure is going to help me pay taxes,rent,and buy food!
You know what, physics isn't gonna help you do that either. My problem is why do they misinform you in lower grades?
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Dendrobates Tinctorius Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:51pm 
Originally posted by Greed:
I learned most of this ♥♥♥♥ in school.What school did you end up going to where they didn't teach you these things?
"How could anyone take this seriously?"
"By staying in school."
"I LEARNED STUFF IN SCHOOL"

Um, ok.
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Saint Pablo Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:52pm 
Originally posted by Dendrobates Tinctorius:
Originally posted by Greed:
I learned most of this ♥♥♥♥ in school.What school did you end up going to where they didn't teach you these things?
"How could anyone take this seriously?"
"By staying in school."
"I LEARNED STUFF IN SCHOOL"

Um, ok.
Seriously,they should teach these things in school,but there are some things more important than learing about classification of animals.
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bugmaster ∞ Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:53pm 
Originally posted by Keyboard Warrior (Grox3000):
Originally posted by bugmaster ∞:
You know what, physics isn't gonna help you do that either. My problem is why do they misinform you in lower grades?
At my old elementary school, they painted Christopher Columbus as a saint :p.
I know right, why dont lower grades tell you that coloumbus was a monster
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KANAMI Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:53pm 
Originally posted by bugmaster ∞:
Originally posted by Greed:
Because learning all these little things sure is going to help me pay taxes,rent,and buy food!
You know what, physics isn't gonna help you do that either. My problem is why do they misinform you in lower grades?

*sigh
I'm trying to say,
In your last breath
Would you rather be thinking about
The invertebrates you learned in school,
Or
The ♥♥♥♥ you did in your life to make it worthwhile?
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Saint Pablo Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:54pm 
Originally posted by bugmaster ∞:
Originally posted by Greed:
Because learning all these little things sure is going to help me pay taxes,rent,and buy food!
You know what, physics isn't gonna help you do that either. My problem is why do they misinform you in lower grades?
They misinform kids in lower grades in order to simplify things.They can't get into the grit of things.They have to cover the basics first.In other words,time constraints is the reason why these things aren't taught.
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Zespri Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:55pm 
I don't understand why in school they taught more things aside from creationism.
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bugmaster ∞ Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:55pm 
Originally posted by Dr. Class:
Originally posted by bugmaster ∞:
You know what, physics isn't gonna help you do that either. My problem is why do they misinform you in lower grades?

*sigh
I'm trying to say,
In your last breath
Would you rather be thinking about
The invertebrates you learned in school,
Or
The ♥♥♥♥ you did in your life to make it worthwhile?
OK you got me there.
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Saint Pablo Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:55pm 
I wouldn't blame society for the exclusion of this,however.
Last edited by Saint Pablo; Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:57pm
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Dendrobates Tinctorius Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:58pm 
Originally posted by Greed:
Seriously,they should teach these things in school,but there are some things more important than learing about classification of animals.
Yes, for example, learning about the importance of those animals re: the natural world and human endeavors. OP tried to bring up how this stuff gets glossed over, but nobody here wants to discuss that. Instead it's a lot of complaining about how school is keeping them down with useless classes instead of videogames 101.
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DaDankFox Feb 1, 2015 @ 3:59pm 
agreed
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Saint Pablo Feb 1, 2015 @ 4:00pm 
Originally posted by Dendrobates Tinctorius:
Originally posted by Greed:
Seriously,they should teach these things in school,but there are some things more important than learing about classification of animals.
Yes, for example, learning about the importance of those animals re: the natural world and human endeavors. OP tried to bring up how this stuff gets glossed over, but nobody here wants to discuss that. Instead it's a lot of complaining about how school is keeping them down with useless classes instead of videogames 101.
>how school is keeping them down with useless classes instead of videogames 101
Who the hell ever implied this? Specific classification is important,but there's more to life than this.I'd rather learn about how to deal with certain things in life instead of learning about classifications of species.Sure it's interesting,but there's more important things to learn.
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bugmaster ∞ Feb 1, 2015 @ 4:00pm 
ALSO, WHY ARE WE WHASTING OUR TIME TRYING TO SAVE PANDAS WHEN WE COULD SAVE SO MANY ENDANGERED AND THRERAND INVERTEBRATES
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Saint Pablo Feb 1, 2015 @ 4:01pm 
Originally posted by bugmaster ∞:
ALSO, WHY ARE WE WHASTING OUR TIME TRYING TO SAVE PANDAS WHEN WE COULD SAVE SO MANY ENDANGERED AND THRERAND INVERTEBRATES
Why not both? They both matter in some way,shape or form.
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