Practical Philosophy, Monday

[endsthegame]

Today, class was meeting... in the Danger Shop. Ender had programmed it with a simulation of a nice, cool forest clearing, though otherwise his setup was unchanged.

"I suppose this week is as good a week as any to talk about nurture," he said wryly, sitting down. "Specifically, what effect does the environment you grew up in - or exist in - have on you personally? Has it helped define you, or does it define you entirely, or are most of your traits inborn?"

He spread his arms.

"It's an issue on which scientists and philosophers have quarreled for centuries," he said. "When a child gets born to a family in the desert, are they instilled with a resistance to heat on a biological level, or is it that they grow up accustomed to it? Is a child born cheerful, or is that a mechanism they build as they explore how their interaction affects the world around them? And so forth, and so on. I don't want to really talk about other people, though. I want to talk about you."

He took a sip of water.

"So tell me about where you come from, in as much detail - or lack thereof - as you like," he said. "How much of an effect do you think it's had on who you are?"

2 Flight 2 Fly, Monday, August 1, 2016

[sith_happened]

Anakin was looking deeply dubious about this week's class, being held in the Danger Shop because of the school's extremely vigorous insurance policy. "Today we'll fly without the benefit of machines," he said. "This is called...trapeze."

Apparently.

"It's a practice wherein you swing on metal bars and fly through the air to be caught by other people, or to end up back on a metal bar, I guess," Jaina said. "It's pretty fun."

She'd totally been testing it.

"Really?" Anakin asked. "I thought you were overselling it to make me try."

"Try it, you'll love it," Jaina promised, and turned back to the class. "You're going to watch the demonstration, and then try to successfully fly off the trapeze and be caught by a nice man also on a trapeze. If you don't get it, wait for everyone else to go and you can try again."

Relationships for Dummies, Monday - 2nd Period

[stickitupmyjinx]

Written on the board today was:

Something had to be stabbed came up.

Enjoy this movie. It's about relationships or something. And it's sort of Shakespeare.

(Someone press play.)

Your teachers were doing great at this, really.