IC CONTINUATIONS STUFF

[halfcocked]

[since my other two continuation posts are like 1000 comments each let's make a new one]

Comments

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

You're the one who wanted to read up on tigers.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

Tigers aren't geeky! Tigers are a man's animal!

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

[I hope you can see this expression somehow, even though I am sitting behind you]

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

[I can feel it radiating off of you--turns to look]

What? They are!

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

[sighs]

It's still learning about something.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

Well--yeah, I guess . . . that kind of thing's more interesting than school.

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

Depending on what you study, you could learn about this sort of thing in school, as well.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

There's no tiger class! I've done Rhode's homework, it's all math and history and essays.

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

That's important, too ...

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

But it's boring . . .

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

They're not that bad.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

Hey, you said you tutored guys worse than me, right?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

For the exams, yes.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. You know, if you think you can make history and math interesting, be my guest!

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

--Really?

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying I wanna take classes or do homework or any of that! And no treating me like an idiot! And no projects! Or textbooks! Or notes! Or other people being there! . . . But I wouldn't mind listening to you talk. I guess.

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

... You have to actually be interested, Devit. I'm not going to make you listen if you don't really want to learn.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

. . . I brought it up, didn't I? But that doesn't mean I want to go to school.

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

And it isn't as if there's much in the way of a proper school, here. But if you're really interested--I can see what I can do.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

We'll see if you can make it interesting! If you say they're not boring, prove it!

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

It's as much your own interest, though. If there's nothing in the subject that grabs you, there won't be much I can do.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

I don't know a lot about it, how do I know--maybe you can make it interesting after all! History, though . . . the stuff in books, that's just what humans wanted to put in there . . . I don't get what the point is. How do you know you're reading anything true? What if you're spending all your time learning about lies?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

In theory, the more you learn, the more you question--and maybe you'll be inspired to push yourself, and see if what you've been taught is the truth. A good teacher wouldn't lie to his students.

[halfcocked.livejournal.com]

C'mon . . . it's not that easy. It sounds good, but that's not how stuff works. Maybe someone's got a good teacher, but what if the teacher's teacher was bad? Or that teacher's teacher? Or that teacher's teacher! That's how stuff ends up like it is now in my world! It only takes one shitty person and all those people after them end up believing in lies. And it's not like there is just one shitty person. It's most of 'em. . . . I thought of it earlier, when we were talking about it . . . I wonder why the Earl sends Rhode to school?

[a-holy-oak.livejournal.com]

Nothing worthwhile is easy, I think. And schooling doesn't happen in a bubble, after all--you have your other teachers, your peers, books--nothing says that you can only learn from one source. You could say life itself is a learning process.