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Everything you needed to know you learned in kindergarten (imgur.com)

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[–]maineiscold 17 points18 points ago

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I love Dr. Seuss! But the funny thing is that my favorite, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, isn't on there.

If that was was to be given a "new" title, it would be "Diversity makes life more interesting".

[–]DailyDistraction[S] 4 points5 points ago

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My favorite too

[–]drgiggleface 10 points11 points ago

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My mother is a kindergarten teacher, and she hates Dr. Suess. The kids are trying to recognize, spell, pronounce, and learn basic writing skills, and often she feels like the silly made up words in the books often confuses students. She's the only teacher in the school who doesn't celebrate Dr. Suess Day. Still trying to get her to lighten up about it.

[–]the_television 2 points3 points ago

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Does she pronounce it "sewce" or "soyce"?

[–]Kowzorz 2 points3 points ago

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I think it's an excellent skill to have, to be able to distinguish between made-up words and not-made-up words and without practice, it's hard for the kids.

Edit: To elaborate, as a child, etymology was taught to me very early; as early as I learned to read. Being able to piece words together and also figure out what words mean based on their similarity to other words and how certain parts of words are modifiers helped with my literacy greatly. It's this same kind of skill that can be used to figure out what nonsense words are supposed to mean and to recognize that they're made up since they don't have pieces of other words.

[–]wolfbriar 0 points1 point ago

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Maybe she should not read Suess to them?

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[–]DailyDistraction[S] 9 points10 points ago

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Haha, a couple of my friend actually made that video :)

[–]El_Rista1993 1 point2 points ago

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I love the message of that book, but I also love the realistic perspective of the College Humor mock of it.

[–]Cyborg771 0 points1 point ago

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Aww, I'm not gonna lie that got to me.

[–]krawm 7 points8 points ago

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Fucking Brilliant.

i had the complete Dr. Suess as a child, one of the greatest gifts i ever got.

[–]AwesomeBrainPowers 4 points5 points ago

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I read somewhere that Dr Suess didn't really like children, and he wrote his books in an effort to achieve a generational shift towards being less shitty.

I have no idea if that's true, but I'm certain that I want it to be true.

[–]SnowingSwede 1 point2 points ago

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Turtles all the way down, man.

[–]johnnybigoode 3 points4 points ago

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EIL5: The Inherent Ethical Issues of Isolationism.

I really don't get it.

[–]Patargh 9 points10 points ago

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Horton Hears a Who, The animals/critters around him don't believe him because of their extremely closed minds (isolationism) due to the political machines telling them.

TL;DR, if you're a closed minded douche, you'll see the consequences of your actions.

[–]johnnybigoode 1 point2 points ago

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mind is blown

[–]ehpuckit 2 points3 points ago

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You're not wrong. He couldn't get his adult work published because it was too preachy, so he turned the characters into cats and whos and sold it as kid lit because he knew the parents would have to read it then and it would sink in.

[–]drunxor 1 point2 points ago

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Is it just me, or were those titles shorter when I was a kid?

[–]Cyborg771 1 point2 points ago

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Do I need to be the asshole that points out how Seuss was (for a time) a notorious racist?

But I still love his books...

[–]Apocrypha 2 points3 points ago

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But the same article says he changed his ways. You can't be mad at someone for being broken then getting fixed.

[–]IronOhki 4 points5 points ago

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You know, that's got me thinking all of the sudden...

Progressive thought is increasing in the world (and is certainly the majority on Reddit) but there must be things we continue to do or believe that are actually horrible and oppressive, yet we persist because it's simply the popular opinion.

[–]Apocrypha 1 point2 points ago

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Let's play a game, it's called spot the bigotry!

[–]Lz_erk 1 point2 points ago

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That was informative. I didn't look between the lines of his books in childhood [although the meanings of a couple were hard to miss], and now it all makes sense in a way that makes me identify with and respect his eventual goals.

[–]DailyDistraction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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http://www.myfacewhen.com/399/

[–]mortong 1 point2 points ago

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He later went on to realize his mistakes and some of his political cartoons even reference his earlier cartoons in theme. This one in particular is probably autobiographical.

I have a lot of respect for the sort of person who is self-aware enough to not only recognize their own flaws, but publicly admit them and then take positive action to remedy things.

[–]Cyborg771 0 points1 point ago

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That's why I put (for a time), acknowledging that he didn't stay racist.

[–]DailyDistraction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Agreed. I wish I could take back nearly everything I said in my twenties.

[–]Tee_Red 0 points1 point ago

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can anyone tell me the titles of all of those? there are a couple i don't recognize.

[–]Cyborg771 1 point2 points ago

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The Butter Battle Book, The Sneetches and Other Stories, The Cat In The Hat, The Lorax, Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who

[–]DailyDistraction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Thanks cyborg

[–]oOkeuleOo 0 points1 point ago

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do these exist in other languages too? i want to buy them for my kid when i have one

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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They probably don't, a lot of his writing has so much rhyme in it. It's very poetic, and it's hard to transfer poetry from language to language.

[–]Malgas 0 points1 point ago

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That's all true, but Jabberwocky has been translated into a bunch of different languages, so I'm sure it's possible.

[–]Restrepo17 0 points1 point ago

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Actually, I owned and then donated Spanish versions of most of these to my local children's hospital a few years back. There are probably tons of translations out there.

[–]thanks_for_the_fish 0 points1 point ago

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I was always under the impression that Horton Hears a Who was about abortion.

[–]5mokahontas 1 point2 points ago

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What? Why?

[–]thanks_for_the_fish 0 points1 point ago

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"A person's a person, no matter how small."

[–]CaptainEhAwesome 2 points3 points ago

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You can see his stories in many ways, I suppose. This is the one I've always known. Which makes sense since he made a lot of propaganda comics/posters.

Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears A Who is a turning point in the author's life. He realizes that after hating and discrimating against the Japanese for so long, that they the Japanese people deserve to be hear under American occupation. Horton (America) needs to protect and nuture the Who's on the dust speck (the Japanese citizens) so that they can grow and thrive within the new peaceful postwar era. When The Whos cry out ""We are Here!" it symbolizing you can not treat them like they do not exisit and that it is an humanitarian issue to listen to the people of Japan to thier wishes and not those of the other countries around them.

Link

[–]314R8 1 point2 points ago

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That was 1 sentence taken out of context. The whole book is about noticing the people that others don't care about.

[–]jalinb 0 points1 point ago

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQvnZOR_oIk

[–]seussmau5 0 points1 point ago

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OBEY ME!

[–]IronOhki 1 point2 points ago

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Beautiful pic, OP. You forgot to mention One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, where Seuss analyzed the inequality and potential violence inherent in apartheid government systems. Or was that Hop on Pop?

[–]PlasmaBurns 0 points1 point ago

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Dr. Seuss is the influential writer of the modern age. Think of how many more people read his books and how many times they are read. He changed the minds of children who have grown into the leaders of today and tomorrow.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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i absolutely love this. well done sir!

[–]non-discernable 0 points1 point ago

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are these real?

[–]DailyDistraction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Metaphorically yes, I think so.

[–]JD_SLICK 0 points1 point ago

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The sneetches isn't about racism, it's about conformity.

I'd wager sylvester mcmonkey mcbean could have a field day these days with a tattoo removal machine.