Taylor: Leave Me The Fuck Alone So I Can Dance With This Babe

I taught my dog “jump” command today, this feels serendipitous so I had to reblog

crowds jumping throughout the eras

“Long Live” every Kaylor out there

Sign along with heart

👊🏼 💜 🌈

so I know I just started here but for anybody who is still confused please watch the movie Kill Bill it explains. EVERYTHING. 

we. need. to. kill. bill. and. Taylor. is. our. Joan. and. we. are. going. to. combat. kiss. bye. bye. 

I scream for whatever it’s worth

I don’t understand why people are upset with JK Rowling, like why does anyone take her opinions about gender identity seriously? she is uneducated, not an intellect in any way, she writes make believe stories for CHILDREN about magic and other made up shit. She is not intelligent and doesn’t deserve the kind of attention and consideration she’s got on these issues she’s chosen to wage war against. Leave it alone JK, stick to writing your make believe and keep your head out of affairs that concerns actual humans!

Could someone please direct me towards “the 1975” page

I legit have no idea what I’m doing on tumblr and want to be their fan

A Twitter Thread from David Bowles:

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I'll let you in on a secret. I have a doctorate in education, but the field’s basically just a 100 years old. We don’t really know what we’re doing. Our scholarly understanding of how learning happens is like astronomy 2000 years ago.

Most classroom practice is astrology.

Before the late 19th century, no human society had ever attempted to formally educate the entire populace. It was either aristocracy, meritocracy, or a blend. And always male.

We’re still smack-dab in the middle of the largest experiment on children ever done.

Most teachers perpetuate the “banking” model (Freire) used on them by their teachers, who likewise inherited it from theirs, etc.

Thus the elite “Lyceum” style of instruction continues even though it’s ineffectual with most kids.

What’s worse, the key strategies we’ve discovered, driven by cognitive science & child psychology, are quite regularly dismissed by pencil-pushing, test-driven administrators. Much like Trump ignores science, the majority of principals & superintendents I’ve known flout research.

Some definitions:

Banking model --> kids are like piggy banks: empty till you fill them with knowledge that you're the expert in.

Lyceum --> originally Aristotle's school, where the sons of land-owning citizens learned through lectures and research.

Things we (scholars) DO know:

-Homework doesn't really help, especially younger kids.

-Students don't learn a thing from testing. Most teachers don't either (it's supposed to help them tweak instruction, but that rarely happens).

-Spending too much time on weak subjects HURTS.

Do you want kids to learn? Here's something we've discovered: kids learn things that matter to them, either because the knowledge and skills are "cool," or because .... they give the kids tools to liberate themselves and their communities.

Maintaining the status quo? Nope.

Kids are acutely aware of injustice and by nature rebellious against the systems of authority that keep autonomy away from them.

If you're perpetuating those systems, teachers, you've already freaking lost.

They won't be learning much from you. Except what not to become. Sure, you can wear them down. That's what happened to most of you, isn't it? You saw the hideous flaw in the world and wanted to heal it. But year after numbing year, they made you learn their dogma by rote.

And now many of you are breaking the souls of children, too.

For what?

It's all smoke and mirrors. All the carefully crafted objectives, units and exams.

WE. DON'T. KNOW. HOW. PEOPLE. LEARN.

We barely understand the physical mechanisms behind MEMORY. But we DO know kids aren't empty piggy banks. They are BRIMMING with thought.

The last and most disgusting reality? The thing I hear in classroom after freaking classroom?

Education is all about capitalism.

"You need to learn these skills to get a good job." To be a good laborer. To help the wealthy generate more wealth, while you get scraps.

THAT is why modern education is a failure.

Its basic premise is monstrous.

"Why should I learn to read, Dr. Bowles?"

Because reading is magical. It makes life worth living. And being able to read, you can decode the strategies of your oppressors & stop them w/ their own words.

DRESS

OMG..

“Your buzzcut and my hair bleached”

Taylor was talking about Karlie’s dress at the MET GALA 2016! Remember when Karlie had to cut her dress because there was spilled red wine on its hem?

She was literally saying buzz (hurry, quickly) cut people!

AND IT’S STILL PERTAINING TO THAT DRESS BECAUSE THE CHORUS WAS KARLIE’S POV

Say my name and everything just stops I don’t want you like a best friend Only bought this dress so you could take it off I ALMOST CRIED WHEN I REALIZED THIS! DAMN! @taylorswift IS FREAKING GENIUS!TELL ME I’M DELUSIONAL!