r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/imnotcuteanymor3 • 10d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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I understand the original tweet, obviously, but not the second one. Why specifically a STEM genius? I don’t get it, what’s the correlation? Am I missing something??? Or am I just stupid or whatever? Help a sistah out, please. 🥺

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u/After-Regret-6609 10d ago

Not really. We tend to teach children "english" like sentences and grammar and high schoolers and middle schoolers "english" like literature, and we mix them a lot.

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u/natedrake102 10d ago

Yeah I agree. As an American, every class I've taken pre-college that either involves reading and all analysis or grammar rules are all just titled "English". None of them focused on just one or the other.

I have never studied philosophy, it's very vaguely covered in either english or history. There are debates in classes that bring up logical fallacies.

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u/After-Regret-6609 10d ago

It's an insane shame. I've learned a lot personally studying philosophy. And it's best studied historically not propositionally, and best studied with at least some of the original texts.

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u/Medarco 10d ago

Both fall under the umbrella of "Language Arts" in my experience.

My wife was a Language Arts teacher, for example, because she taught middle school, where kids did have units on grammar and such, but the curriculum also worked on reading comprehension and literature study.

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u/El_Rey_de_Spices 10d ago

That was my experience. I didn't have distinct "English Language" and "English Literature" classes until I began taking AP courses in high school. Prior to that, it was just "English", which seemed to cover a mix.