Why I love school

Look, it's a penis!
Uhm... I can explain: Why I love school and what a bunch of aluminium penises has to do with it.
Like all my videos it's supposed to be (very mildly) entertaining rather than a serious input about school and creativity. Because I'm well aware of the flipside and the equally understandable belief that school kills creativity, notably in the shape of narrow-minded teachers and strict curriculums.
I'm just saying, can real creativity be killed or even held back? (I think not.)

The background music used in this video is royalty-free.

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[Gadspy]

It was a banaaaaaaaal example?

[sillysparrowness]

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

[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

[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.

[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!

[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]

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

[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]

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?

[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

[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...) :-)

[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.