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fandomhigh2012-07-09 09:34 am
endsthegame) wrote in fandomhigh2012-07-09 09:34 am
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Practical Philosophy, Monday
"Last week, some of you wound up talking about moments from home you miss," Ender said, once everyone had filed into the classroom - and sat down in the circle. "And that the formative years of our lives - the places we grew up in, the things we did - determine so much of how we see the world that comes after it."
He smiled briefly.
"For a lot of people, high school's the moment they really get tossed out into another world," he continued. "Especially here, at this boarding school, where people from all universes and times and places wash up on the shore and go to class. It's a shock to the system, a readjustment of your vision-- everything is new or different, and yet a lot of things might not be."
He sat forward. "So what I'm curious about," he said, "Is the things you miss, and the things you don't. The things you can adapt to, and the things you can't. This is your point of comparison towards the life you used to know, and I know all of you think about these comparisons, maybe even every day, every hour, every minute."
This was where a normal teacher would have probably dug into his own experiences in order to share, but Ender was not as inclined to do so. Instead, he said, "So talk to me. What's new and what's old? Does it mean anything? Or is it just a new background stapled onto your old reality - just an extension of the life you used to know?"
He smiled briefly.
"For a lot of people, high school's the moment they really get tossed out into another world," he continued. "Especially here, at this boarding school, where people from all universes and times and places wash up on the shore and go to class. It's a shock to the system, a readjustment of your vision-- everything is new or different, and yet a lot of things might not be."
He sat forward. "So what I'm curious about," he said, "Is the things you miss, and the things you don't. The things you can adapt to, and the things you can't. This is your point of comparison towards the life you used to know, and I know all of you think about these comparisons, maybe even every day, every hour, every minute."
This was where a normal teacher would have probably dug into his own experiences in order to share, but Ender was not as inclined to do so. Instead, he said, "So talk to me. What's new and what's old? Does it mean anything? Or is it just a new background stapled onto your old reality - just an extension of the life you used to know?"
Re: Talk.
"It's different in some ways, and other ways not," he offered. "It's a school where I barely learn anything in my classes, that isn't new. But the people are different--" take the wolf puppy he had with him-- "and there's way more stuff to learn that doesn't come from classes than you'd get at a normal school, like... coping with being almost wiped out of existence or something." He shrugged. There was more he had in mind, but he didn't know how to say it without exposing more of himself than he'd like to. So he just settled on, "And I guess I see how people say this place gets you to form attachments. Because of all the weirdness. And the people."
Re: Talk.
Re: Talk.
"Um," he said, struggling to put into words what it was about the people at Fandom that made him like them more. "More... civilized? It isn't... I mean, people don't do the whole stupid xenophobic high school thing you get anywhere else." That felt dangerously close to an admittance that he'd been hurt somewhere else, though, so he segued quickly. "And people here are smarter, too. Way fewer idiots."
Re: Talk.