I was just thinking about this sort of thing today. Current educational practices are to teach children, instead of, say, math -- rather "how to solve problems." Critical thinking. Lots of buzzwords like that. This leads to a lot of children who can't do math. I'm not sure if any of them can solve problems, as it were, but they certainly can't fucking solve math problems anymore -- I see it every damn day when I volunteer. If you can't tell I think this is stupid and modern educational practices are a waste of time and that we can almost always learn more on our own and I guess I just needed a brief space to rant. That entire day of teaching kids to search for truth or whatever could have been boiled down into one sentence, "the earth revolves around the sun," and then they could have moved on to learning things that actually could use a bit of sought truth, as it were, and that would've been great and meaningful.
In second grade I was always the fastest at times tables and was generally rewarded with Smarties. Also, what the fuck is it about the tempting #askhubski tag that causes it to instantly become reddit-ified the moment there's an influx from reddit? I swear that's the only place on the site I'm seeing an impact so far.
I've temporarily ignored #askhubski, I've found it to be rather obnoxious at the moment. But I have full faith things will calm down soon enough and we will be left with another batch of wonderful people! I know I came over in the last round!
I damn near started a cranky old man post and then I had dinner. AskReddit was the same way until the mods turned nazi. IAmA, ELI5, AskScience, SuicideWatch, DoesAnybodyElse and god knows how many other subreddits were created solely to purify AskReddit in the midst of some fad or other.