Why I love school

[daysong12]

I paused the video to read the words that were written on you're "peices of art"', but then I realized I can't read German -.-

[Leviwosc]

Dear Astrid,

I'm a Dutch teacher, teaching Dutch at high school. My students do not produce aluminium phalli, but are playing with their smart phones. If I notice someone is playing with a phone I take it and tell the student he/she can get it at the end of the day. But what do you do in such circumstances?

[owzatagain]

@Leviwosc I'm a teacher in the US... also dealing with the texting on cellphones. Try standing right next to them, reading their texts. They get the point.

[Leviwosc]

@owzatagain - I'm certainly going to try it. Thank you for your advice.

[SynesthesiaSoup]

0 dislikes :D

[lastfuture]

I can envision it in my head now: "Bring me to the window" - "YOU CAN TALK!?" - ".. BRING me to the WINDOW!" - "... OK" :D

Also I'm delighted to learn that you seem to have learnt to play the violin.

[johnhyde4]

I was becoming a fan until this video. DX

[BassaSelim]

I got the prequel to this "Mozzarella is cheese"-bit yesterday at a store, when people where looking for "mozzarella with cheese" like mozzarella being something different. Building a small chain here, "cheese with cheese" leads me to "spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam and spam". And I probably missed some spam there. Damn, comments are too short here and I just again realized I don't like my recorded voice else I might answer with a vid.

BTW - you need a little shop ;-)

[SoraKohaku]

About the differences between envy and jealous, yes there are very slight differences, but I don't see the fuss about using jealous instead. Sillysparrowness if you're are particularly worried about being correct then envy should be used. Though at least in American English jealous is often used instead of envy. Envy in most cases sounds too formal so it's typical slang to just say "I'm so jealous of you/her/him" when someone is given something that you have like to received.

[dfarmbrough]

Have the school's governors seen this? :-)

[eponymousboschful]

Maybe I'm a little punchy because I've been up most of the night alternatively studying (microbio and Anatomy & Phys) and watching U.S. Political commentary, but everytime you said, "Look. It's a penis.", I could not stop laughing. Just now, typing it there, I laughed.

You have made me laugh and I have subscribed.

Cheers,

Simon

[TheSupercookie17]

i wish i had teachers like you on my school :DD. come to austria? :P

[Jemima1377]

@TheSupercookie17

I'm a teacher in Austria and have to say: quiet a lot of us are just as funny, creative, open and witty as her - pupils just don't always see it... ^_^

So: keep your eyes peeled, and you might just start uncovering the persons behind your teachers... =)

Many of us are really nice (though admittedly, there are also some weirdos, like in just about any profession...) :-)

[rayzgbbts]

"Look it's a penis." Oh my gosh! I laughed loud enough to disrupt the whole offfice, and my boss looked over the top of his desk at me.

[YoungJim409]

I don't think the Wizard of Oz will ever be the same for me now.

[iHennigs]

I love british teachers!!!

[iHennigs]

@iHennigs Nooo!, you are german? hehhe, my teacher wouldn't believe it! you look quite friendly!!!

[Plottoberry]

The story about the penisses is quite beautiful.

[Plottoberry]

I always thought I was the only one in elementary school drawing comics. I used to draw two girls called Rose and Violet and their adventures. One time I started to draw them on every page I had for school, but my teacher wasn't amused. On the other side, she gave me the assignment to make a childrens book and read them for the smaller kids in school, so she did support me.

[najahe123]

Now look what you've done. You made me feel like I wasted all those hours I was in class paying attention.

Then again, there is a reason why I almost always failed art classes.

The IMO most wastefull uses of time in class that I've seen are studying for another class' test and playing internet flash games.

[LifeOutsideTheBox]

I love your thoughts. So much.

And thank you for saying "Can creativity be killed or even held back" as I've always had a belief that boundaries only encourage art.

I love you. So much. And I barely even know you, even by stalking-on-YouTube standards.

[nshiell]

When I was at school I was never that good at English Lit, so when I used to have to revise it instead I used to secretly play around with webpage coding and such like on the computer now I work as a web developer, procrastination is such a motivator to be creative

[HiperactiveZombie]

Indeed, my school years did wonders for my creativity. xD

And now, university, where i have interesting classes about things I like and still have every other day a boring class to assure that i keep on drawing/writing silly stuff.

The best part of education, honestly, is having this balance between boredom-driven creativity and interest-driven creativity.For instance, I made loads of doodles and comics during classes, but I also made a 7 page article about Spring Awakening for a class.

[Y2Ksnowglobe]

I remember writing poems on my scientific calculator during Algebra.

[raiduk]

Your videos are addicting. Plus I identify with you when you talk about your relation to english with youtube and all that, as I am french x)

[Gadspy]

It was a banaaaaaaaal example?

[sillysparrowness]

@Gadspy It was totally banaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­rrrrl! (I sure love that LEO speaker :D)

[neleabels]

@sillysparrowness

The pronunciatin of the second syllable is a bit to dark, resp. open. Rather than /a:/ you should pronounce the vowel as /æ/. The more near-open the vowel gets, the more American it is, the more open, the more British. You are doing it just to open and too elongated.

[neleabels]

@neleabels

"Too open", dammit.

[azid83]

First of all: Wellcome to Nerdfigtheria :D

I'm a little worried that you are about to recieve a lot of small metallic phalli as it seems the most apropriated way of expressing our approval. :-)

I, for my part, am very looking forward to your videos to come.

Regards

[sillysparrowness]

@azid83 I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that I just got completely exited by the thought of recieving a lot of small metallic phalli. It is... I would actually love that! It's so random and pointless and... I'd totally collect them! XD

[GONEmypurpleflapjack]

@sillysparrowness So, you really like cocks? (Because you have chickens.. I'm not a perv... oh god, I am!.. Sorry fi this made you uncomfortable)

[MrDonkrypton]

@sillysparrowness You would collect little penisses (phalli...I'm sure, your pupils would give them different names) made from aluminium foil and smelling for someone elses breakfast? Already ready for a sabbatical yet...;-)...?

[QuirkyWitch]

How can you know all about art AND education AND speak English with such a beautiful accent?

[TheMotto98]

Can't wait until one of her students come in and see her playing with 5 little penises.

[MadMulberry]

Very entertaining, I wish more teachers were like you when I was at school.

I followed a link to your videos from vlogbrothers.

Would you mind a bit of English critique? Rhetorical question, I'm giving it anyway, whether you mind or not. :-)

It's to do with envy and jealousy. They are not the same thing. In the video you used jealous (twice) when you should have used envious. The error is very common amongst English speakers. There is a good article at plato.stanford.edu/entries/env­y

[sillysparrowness]

@MadMulberry Thanks a lot! I'm happy to learn.

[Jenniefordummies]

So, so true. I now live and work in a boarding school. Let's get creative!

[BlueAnime101]

I didn't consider it before, but school really was my most influential creative outlet. After all, I wouldn't draw stick figure notes on most of the wars America took part in (prior to the 21st century) if not for the fact that my attention span was exceedingly short during my U.S. History class. Looking at it now, I'm far less productive with my art now that I don't have inescapably daily classes. (I really should doodle more; I had better grades when I doodled notes in class.)

[meistersamwise]

I like how at 1:30 you say dumBest argument.

If I'm not mistaken(English is my first language) the b is silent. I find myself correcting people all the time at my college, where few people speak English as there mother tongue.

It has gotten to the point where people ask me to proof read for them, before they hand in there work. Though I think it merely irritates some people.

[SeriouslyUseless]

Subscribed! You are so smart and interesting :D

[cameronfrye23]

So basically the best thing about school is that it makes you bored enough to be creative. I like it. But what does it say about the future of our society when we are are constantly being stimulated by internet/video games/television and advertisements(flashing or otherwise) everywhere we look.

[WynnterReverie]

Y U NO MY TEACHER

[ohheycrystalhey]

I can't wait until your pupils find these videos and begin making you multitudes of aluminum penises.

[nachtEule19]

"alumin-yum penises" haha. Ah-loom-ih-NUM

[madisonxwasxhere]

@nachtEule19 she's using the british pronunciation, aluminium instead of aluminum

[kittykatie94]

Wow!! I love your videos!

[boxingtree]

This lady speaks so much sense.

[HaploidCell]

Am I completey paranoid or is it weird that a relative young person would make miniature PENISES?

(penises? penisi? penea?)

Is this not a sure-fire sign that this child is sexually abused?

OK - maybe I am totally going overboard with this but in my time as a student there were 2 separate occasions where teachers pointed the police in the direction of sexual abuse victims based on the ART these kids were creating.

I have no idea how old this kid was. I really hope this is a benign doodeling.

[sillysparrowness]

@HaploidCell The "kid" was a 17 or 18 year old young man, I think. So, rather a case of lots of hormones than sexual abuse. You're maybe a little paranoid there - or just not used to school life. Penises: most common doodle in any school environment. By far. Nothing to worry about.

[amaranthinepurple]

Excellent use of "banal" in the first 15 seconds! Linking between the videos! I like it, deliberate or not!

[sillysparrowness]

@amaranthinepurple That was completely deliberate, of course. 1) I am that obsessive. 2) I can't use the word banal without being reminded of my Learning English video anymore.

[georgecarra]

you have such beautiful collar bones.

and a lovely posture.

[juliecranford]

Everyone was creative when they were little, before they started school. If they had never gone to school, they would have retained their creativity and they wouldn't need to be forced by school to be "creative".

[TifaTyndal]

So... school is great because it makes students so bored that they get creative as a way to escape it? That can't be right.... ;)

Actually, I completely agree that school is good in the way that it forces us to do things instead of just thinking about them or consuming. The problem is that sometimes the creations are so boring that no one but the teacher will ever read them.... Interesting video! Thanks!

[juliecranford]

You're not going to address the fact that a teacher stole from a student repeatedly, and then the student, suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, gives the teacher a present!?

[sillysparrowness]

@juliecranford Now that you're mentioning it... I should bring it up next time I see my friend. (Plus, considering I borrowed the penises, what does this make me?) *starting to worry*

[juliecranford]

I used to make art, how do I get people to look at it?

[AlexsVideoLogs]

i like these!

[HeyitsMaryClaire]

First! Lol