Teaching you how to learn?

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Yeh, that's what they seem to be doing at school via pointless and boring methods. Honestly, have you tried calcuating T values. It sends me into a daydream...EVERY TIME.

I'm getting fustrated with the system that keeps teaching me what I already know - how to learn. I've figured most of the useful things out outside of school lesson hours.

Thankfully, I have avoided most of that. Through independent study and then teachers who were mostly more or less understanding about peculiar learning styles, I have managed to keep my own learning style.

It doesn't surprise me that you've learned most of the important stuff outside of school. School and formal learning are good for some things, but it cannot be expected or required to teach students common sense, life skills and everything else that students are supposed to know.

I did mostly independent study in elementary school. This came in handy when I had to teach myself out of a textbook in middle school and in high school because of the extreme difference between the teacher's style of teaching and my learning style.

T values...hmmm, I think I learned that last semester in Statistics.

I started teaching myself when I learned that I can only fully understand something by reading it. Essentially, I go to class to be there. I learn at home on my own. Plus, I also have to find ways around my visual-spatial deficits, in the subjects that require this kind of skill. I have only gotten as far as I have because of my photographic memory and the fact that I go for help with the teachers a lot.
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