[ SECRET POST #2274 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2274 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 100 secrets from Secret Submission Post #325.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/k9DCPHy.jpg

[insanenoodlyguy]

Bullshit. Who taught you to read so you could do all that?

[(Anonymous)]

DA - I taught myself to read when I was five because I wanted to know what happened in the unauthorized Heidi sequels and everybody refused to read them to me. If that's not fanfic teaching me to read, I don't know what is.

[(Anonymous)]

In other words, anything after kindergarten is useless.

[(Anonymous)]

The first thing that came to mind after reading this commenting was, "Reading's not that hard."

(Grandma taught me to read when I was three and a half. She was never a school teacher.)

[(Anonymous)]

My mother claims I taught myself to read by watching Sesame Street.

[anonymouslyyours]

My mom did. Informally. So I feel completely justified in hitching a ride on OP's glorious truth.



Besides, who said OP wasn't shipping letters and syllables back when?

[(Anonymous)]

I learned to read before school. I know several people who weren't as fortunate and couldn't read when they reached High School. Two graduated without knowing how to read.

[(Anonymous)]

OP: My parents. Mostly, my Mom.

[(Anonymous)]

You know that formal education is just the building blocks to everything else, right? I'm going to assume that you mean that fandom has given you the enthusiasm for research that your teachers never managed to impart.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm reaaaally hoping you DID mean the 'enthusiasm for learning' thing and not, y'know... the other possibility.

[lex_antonia]

I'm going to call everyone who responds to this with naive glorification of educational institutions a classist fucker.

Congratulations, your school wasn't shit. Lucky you.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, because finding it hard to believe that researching fandom could be more valuable than any education, be it shit or otherwise, is 'glorifying educational institutions' and being a 'classist fucker'.

Because learning made up shit is just that much better!

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, so saying that formal education has benefits is naive glorification of educations institutions and makes you classist? And is also a blanket statement that your school wasn't shit? Bullshit.

[(Anonymous)]

That's because formal education was designed to keep you ignorant and complacent.

[tenlittlebullets]

Same, anon. Same. (Except for "literary and historical fandom crushes," read "literary and historical fandoms I got a serious nerdboner for," because it's rarely a specific character but yeah, it wouldn't be too terribly inaccurate to describe my falling-for-a-new-fandom phase as a crush.)

Three years in the classroom taught me to assemble toy subject-verb-object sentences out of French words. Victor Hugo taught me French.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, that's really not so weird, I think. People simply learn better with proper motivation. You could go to the best school in the world and it wouldn't help a lick if you just didn't care.

Alternately, you could go to a crap school and still get something out of it if you have the drive.

[(Anonymous)]

My friend turned her obsession with the "history fandom" into a renaissance degree! She's now one of the most successful students in the programme! Maybe this is something for you, anon?

[al28894]

Well, different strokes for different folks I guess.

Besides, it's not like I'm the only one who gets sidetracked while digging up research on fandom characters.

[(Anonymous)]

Not necessarily more than, I was fascinated by school, especially at college level. But fanfic definitely broadened my horizons as far as research topics went. A lot less structured and more hit-and-miss than formal education, but probably a lot more wide-ranging than most systemised study allows.

So ... Formal education is the cannonball through the fields of knowledge, while fanfic research is more the grapeshot?

[(Anonymous)]

Formal education for me (at least until college) was dull, inflexible, and finite. Got to love the American public school system...I never blamed the teachers, they were cool people and I got on with them very well, but the system they worked under and I was forced to parrot for standardized test scores that determined federal funding that was all funneled into shitty athletic programs anyway was utter shit.

Fandom? Taught me how to make it fun. History has more drama than Gossip Girls could ever fucking dream.

[lunabee34]

Research is always more fun and interesting when it's on a topic that excites you and that you feel serves a relevant and tangible purpose (in this case, writing successful fic); I'm not surprised you enjoyed study of your own choosing more than study imposed on you by a teacher.

It's amazing that having fun makes it easier to learn

[(Anonymous)]

This has shit-all to do with formal education and everything to do with you actually wanting the knowledge, OP. Seeking it out vs being forced to sit through something you hate for eight hours a day makes a big difference in the learning curve.

[la_petite_singe]

THIS OMG. I learned when doing a Big Bang two years ago that I love doing research.

[(Anonymous)]

Learning is easier when you're doing it through something you find fun. This is ~scientific~ fact. It ain't the video games themselves that are educational, it's the research fans put into it.