# Why don't public schools teach good looks? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465 "2016-04-07T18:20:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/41 "2016-04-07T22:58:22Z")
> [@TheSundial](#): > > They aren’t everything in life although looking good can boost your mood on a daily basis, let’s “face” it. > > Rubbing the corner of the eye, rubbing the inner ear, scratching the back of the head, always grabbing the nose in a certain way. All of these can flatten a face and make it less defined, bringing in the jawbone. > > How many better looking people would there be if we were simply told not to touch our faces/heads? at an early age? > > We pick up these bad habits, then we are oblivious to how this habit changes our looks. I don’t know if Henry Cavill or Casper Van Dien, were told about it at an early age or just never picked up the bad habit? It’s not that these two actors have jaws of steel, they are just defined perfectly while most of the population has jawbones that are receded significantly from rubbing the eye etc. Never really thought about it to the level you did, and I’m grateful for that. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/42 "2016-04-07T23:41:23Z")
This is the sort of quality thread that keeps me coming back to the Dope. The thread on poverty’s pretty good too, but this, this is utterly unique. First rate, Grade A nuttery right here. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/43 "2016-04-08T00:39:57Z")
Meh. First rate nuttery requires that the OP return and defend their insanity, even escalate it. So far the OP has laid this big old cow flop down and apparently walked away. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/44 "2016-04-08T00:51:53Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Meh. First rate nuttery requires that the OP return and defend their insanity, even escalate it. So far the OP has laid this big old cow flop down and apparently walked away. I really want the OP to return. This has the makings of a really entertaining thread. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/45 "2016-04-08T00:53:30Z")
I’v been nervously tugging on my nose all day since opening this thread, and now it’s 18 inches long. Don’t let this happen to you, my friends. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/46 "2016-04-08T01:07:50Z")
I wouldn’t completely write off the OP just yet. I myself do have at least one body part that grows bigger if I tug on it. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/47 "2016-04-08T01:07:50Z")
Most guys don’t have 18 ft long penises, so _ipso facto_ tugging on something doesn’t make it longer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/48 "2016-04-08T02:21:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Zero. > > Did you have any other questions? John, its very rare that you and I agree but we both agree that ending this nonsense is important. Can we agree to a bi-partisan coalition to de-fund this idiotic “Willie Loman” school of higher education…? ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/49 "2016-04-08T02:24:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Most guys don’t have 18 ft long penises, so ipso facto tugging on something doesn’t make it longer. According to the OP, rubbing certain body parts makes other body parts SHORTER. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/50 "2016-04-08T02:48:40Z")
> [@spamforbrains](#): > > According to the OP, rubbing certain body parts makes other body parts SHORTER. But that’s only true if you’re [this guy](http://dnok91peocsw3.cloudfront.net/product/370362-original-1365011819-s2.png). The OP isn’t that guy, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/51 "2016-04-08T02:50:56Z")
You know what they say. Big hands, big feet, eroded jaw. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/52 "2016-04-08T23:48:55Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Since this is not a factual question, let’s move it to IMHO. > > Colibri > General Questions Moderator It’s not even \*non \*factual. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/53 "2016-04-08T23:57:46Z")
You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still a pig. Some kids are just pigs. You can’t somehow learn’em to be show ponies. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/54 "2016-04-09T00:02:36Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > I thought this rung a bell: > [Sleeping on the side and cheekbones - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=721140) The picture linked in the OP of that thread is the blockiest, most jugheaded person I’ve ever seen. He’s both beautiful and frightening. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/55 "2016-04-09T00:40:34Z")
> [@BeeGee](#): > > I thought this rung a bell: > [Sleeping on the side and cheekbones - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=721140) Yes, it’s the same principle, and it’s true, sleeping position is critical to good looks. I understood this long ago, and my role model for beauty sleep is the common brown bat, wherein I sleep hanging upside down from the rafters with my head pointing straight down. This has not only given me enviably symmetrical features, but an enormous brain so large that it’s coming out of my ear holes, and a full head of naturally curly hair that has now overgrown my entire forehead. I also have enormous bulging eyeballs and the ability to catch flying insects just by scratching the back of my head, which causes my tongue to dart out like a heat-seeking missile and snag anything within a ten-foot radius. I suggest you consider this carefully before scoffing at the OP’s common-sense beauty suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/56 "2016-04-09T00:48:27Z")
Whew. That turn into satire lane came just in time. I was staring to feel like I was in a horror show instead of a comedy. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/57 "2016-04-09T03:27:12Z")
To follow on **msmith537** ’s comment, how about those kids who just don’t have any good looks to begin with? (sorry, parent: some of your children were born homely and stayed that way and that’s on your genetics…) > [@TheSundial](#): > > Rubbing the corner of the eye, rubbing the inner ear, scratching the back of the head, always grabbing the nose in a certain way. All of these can flatten a face and make it less defined, bringing in the jawbone. Sorry to tell you this _ **now** _, but your mother, Og bless her soul, was telling you all this when you were a kid just so you would not fidget with your hands on your face, for _cleanliness_ reasons. It’s OK, she meant well. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/58 "2016-04-09T04:39:42Z")
I think there’s another lesson that’s just as important that we all learn: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y7M-7MI4AKE/hqdefault.jpg "Dog from Mars! One Crazy Summer (1986)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7M-7MI4AKE) ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/59 "2016-04-09T05:05:26Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > by scratching the back of my head, which causes my tongue to dart out like a heat-seeking missile and snag anything within a ten-foot radius. . Ummm, could I have your phone number?? I mean, it’s for a friend or…something :D:p ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465/60 "2016-04-09T11:21:12Z")
There must be a way to mix the OP in with a song from [Handsome Boy Modeling School](https://www.google.com/search?q=handsome+boy+modeling+school&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=o7dNqBLo2-AmFM%3A). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-public-schools-teach-good-looks/751465.md?page=4)