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25 Jul 2005, 3:20 pm

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[color=darkblue]I can agree that the way they teach math and usually history at schools is boring, but I have been blessed with very good science teachers for the past few years in high school. One of my favourites was my chemistry teacher because he was willing to explain things to me after class if I didn't understand and he didn't think that I couldn't do what everyone else did. Methinks that one of the most important thing about a teacher is that they don't hold you back.


I definitively agree with that. Thats part of what I meant with the lessons being boring, that the teachers hold us back. As far back as I can remember I wanted to learn everything about my favorite subjects, and I get mad when the teachers hold me back. I had three great highschool years where I had weekly open(not specified) lessons that I could spend on what was interesting to me.



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26 Jul 2005, 1:46 am

I hated school, all the subjects suck. I got harrassed just as badly in all classes...



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26 Jul 2005, 3:28 am

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26 Jul 2005, 9:15 am

I like a few of my lessons. I like German, maths, science, history and geography.


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27 Jul 2005, 11:43 pm

I would have to say that my favorite subject is physics. I haven't taken the class yet, but I purchased the textbook our school uses and have learned a good deal from reading that over the summer, and differential calculus is quickly becoming a favorite topic of mine as well. In terms of classes I will be taking, I look forward to chemistry and taekwondo.


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28 Jul 2005, 8:32 am

It totally depends on the teacher. I haven't taken any creative writing classes since entering college but plan to at some point; however I don't think that will be a favortie class. It's a favorite activity but that wasn't the question. I never liked history in school; too much rote information to memorize, instead of concepts. Math, well, I can take or leave it if I understand it; I make these teeny little errors early on that always screw the whole answer up. My favorite classes thus far have been psych classes, which is fortunate, as it is my major and desired career field. I can't get enough of it; the human mind is just so interesting, what it does, how human behavior can be changed, what goes wrong, how to fix it... it's been referred to as "inner space." Implying that there's as much to find out about the human mind as in "outer space." Anyway, I'm rambling- can you tell I really love the subject?



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28 Jul 2005, 8:44 am

Teachers are a mixed bunch. There's always good teachers, bad teachers and everything in between.

And even outside those ranges... A couple of years after I left school, I found out on the news that my old English teacher got 8 months jail for having a relationship with two boys. He now works selling things in shopping centres (I don't know what those people who promote things in the middle of shops are called), I think he works for a verandah company or something. Once when I recently saw him he recognized me and went "Hi, how are you?" and I just said hi and walked on.

When I saw the news story though, I thought all the pieces fitted, he was quite a weirdo. One of the victims was one of the top end of the cool kids who gave me crap at school. Not that I'm saying he deserves it though. But also, he was my lecturer in the L.A.P.(Learning Assisstance Program) that was for picked for certain students where they do activities together away from the class. Which meant that I could've been one of his victims. Scary...


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28 Jul 2005, 10:43 am

I liked everything except math. My favorites were English and Art, and I earned my degree in English & Literature. Science is quite fascinating, but I had a couple of really boring teachers and didn't learn nearly as much in high school as I have since learned on my own.
Math was just, well, math. Yuck.