Time to get schooled.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

So here's something none of you kids on the ship will thank me for.

Since there ARE kids on the ship, some of whom theoretically have school to go back to or finish, somebody ought to do something about this. Who wants to be a schoolteacher?

Not that we need to have a regular 8 hour schoolday, but even on a creepy meatship, young minds need a'moldin'.

ETA: much as it pains me deep in my soul not to force higher education on someone who's already, say, graduated high school, or otherwise gotten an adult-level education, I guess if you're not interested in taking your learning any further you're . . . okay. Uggggh. Brb, off to nurse my convictions.

Comments

[dyausa-pita.livejournal.com]

What's school?

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"School" is a general term for a place where one person goes to learn from another.

In my country, children go to school from the time they're 5 until they've reached legal adulthood, and a general American education consists of fundamentals in mathematics, literacy, and various sciences.

[dyausa-pita.livejournal.com]

The Junkyard didn't have anything like that. I don't know what any of that means. The Dissemination Machine just told us what we needed to know.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

I guess technically learning from machine is still a kind of school.

The point is that we're all in for a pretty dangerous ride here, and the kids are going to need every kind of preparation they can get. That includes an education.

You're gonna have to tell me about yourself sometime. Your world sounds interesting.

[dyausa-pita.livejournal.com]

What about those pod things in the media library. It just started telling me stuff the other day.

What do you want to know?

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

They're pretty useful. You can learn a lot on your own, but learning in a group encourages more understanding and development.

Whatever you feel like talking about. Culture, history, religion, bedtime stories.

[dyausa-pita.livejournal.com]

What's culture mean? And bedtime stories?

And I'm still not sure how religion works.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

Well, what do you think would be important to tell any of us about your world if we were suddenly there?

[dyausa-pita.livejournal.com]

I don't think you be surviving a trip to The Junkyard.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

That's something. Why not?

[dyausa-pita.livejournal.com]

We all be demons there. Everyone fights to survive, got to devour your enemies before they get you. My tribe won the war, but I don't know if the place even there any more.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

What war, and why wouldn't there be a place left?

[dyausa-pita.livejournal.com]

It was the Law. All the tribes fought to get to Nirvana. Once all the tribes were defeated the gates at the top of the temple would open and everyone who survived would be able to pass, but it didn't turn out that way.

It's a long story, and I don't really remember everything that happened right at the end, but the last thing I know is that me and me comrades were trying to reach the gate and everything falling apart around us.