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Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:38am PDT
The appeal of Ender's Game is hard to explain. One
of my personal thoughts is that people who love
the book can really identify with Ender. When I
read Ender's Game, I felt as if I was Ender. He is
a child who is way above the level of all the
other children in his school. He finds school
extremely boring because he is never challenged
(something a LOT of gifted and talented children
identify with.)


Sorry it's gay but I have to rant about this.

This myth (geniuses are bored in school because they aren't challenged) is one of the most destructive and devitalizing forces ever pressed upon the genuinely talented. Everyone is bored in school. EVERYONE. School is boring and hateful as all training camps for the status quo will be. It's just that geniuses hit the subject material checkpoints a little faster.

It's a waste of their potential to not give them more challenging material, but that doesn't excuse them from having to do all the same shit that their less stimulating peers must do, which includes learning to deal with boredom and dumb people. And the idea that a really bright child must depend on some outside source to provide him with a challenge is p much summarily absurd.

The nicest thing you can ever do to a really smart kid is to drop him off at the library with a note reading "when I get back, I expect you to tell me something interesting."
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        Bummer. by Mischief Maker 10/02/2009, 9:54am PDT NEW
            huh by FABIO 10/02/2009, 6:01pm PDT NEW
    frontpage plz NT by Zsenitan 10/02/2009, 9:55am PDT NEW
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        Tenative thumbs down (unless I'm missing something?) by FABIO 10/08/2009, 11:39pm PDT NEW
            Unfortunately you're not by Mischief Maker 10/09/2009, 8:06am PDT NEW
                Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Arbit 10/09/2009, 9:38am PDT NEW
                    Well ... that's just sci-fi, right? by Worm 10/09/2009, 10:53am PDT NEW
                        Re: Well ... that's just sci-fi, right? by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:52am PDT NEW
                            ACTUALLY LET'S HAVE AN EXCERPT by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 7:01am PDT NEW
                    Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/09/2009, 12:01pm PDT NEW
                    on sentient humans by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 12:18pm PDT NEW
                        Re: on sentient humans by Arbit 10/09/2009, 1:48pm PDT NEW
                            I don't fuckin' know man, I'm telling you what it says in the book. NT by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 5:04pm PDT NEW
                    Ender forward by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:18pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Ender's Game spoilers in MM's post!!!! And mine. by Zsenitan 10/10/2009, 4:38am PDT NEW
                The only thing worse than Ender's Game by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:12pm PDT NEW
                    Ender's Game fans also tend to love Atlas Shrugged by FABIO 10/09/2009, 1:14pm PDT NEW
                    Also... by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:39pm PDT NEW
                        Speaker For The Dead was totally awesome compared to Xenocide. by Fullofkittens 10/09/2009, 1:42pm PDT NEW
                            Children of the Mind was actually my favorite by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:48pm PDT NEW
                                Oh yeah, and... by Chairman Mao 10/09/2009, 1:50pm PDT NEW
                                    Don't whiz on the electric fence NT by Entropy Stew 10/09/2009, 2:15pm PDT NEW
                                Card's women are always horrible creatures by FABIO 10/09/2009, 3:36pm PDT NEW
                    Re: The only thing worse than Ender's Game by Arbit 10/09/2009, 2:15pm PDT NEW
                        Re: The only thing worse than Ender's Game by FABIO 10/09/2009, 2:26pm PDT NEW
                    Oh my god, a good Fabio post. Hard on the heels of the adorable Korean Pizza eve NT by Zsenitan 10/09/2009, 3:45pm PDT NEW
                        Will your friends vote me into top 3 caltrops posters now? NT by FABIO 10/09/2009, 3:52pm PDT NEW
                            I will ask ^___________________________________________________________________^ NT by Zsenitan 10/09/2009, 3:55pm PDT NEW
                    ender's game won a hugo and nebula award for great science fiction, HAVE YOU? NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/17/2009, 3:57pm PDT NEW
                    I remember why I hated Speaker of the Dead so much by fabio 05/12/2015, 9:54am PDT NEW
            the enemies actually shoot back? that's not a tower defense game then NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/09/2009, 2:19pm PDT NEW
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