Do You Like School?

Bad grammar and spelling aside...

Yes, I do. Except for the requirement courses that seem to have no relevance to my major. For example, why do I have to know how to multiply i times the cube root of negative 37 plus 27/15 times y in order to get an English degree?

I love school. That's why I am so hesitant to leave.

I wish somebody had made me take a math course.

Knowing what I know now, I would probably not like school today.

Eh.

Looks Like U Should Be Paying a Little More Attention in School.

This is so horribly written that I am having a hard time answering. I enjoyed learning, but I am not too confident that what I was taught was correct.

> Bad grammar and spelling aside...
>
> Yes, I do. Except for the requirement courses that seem to have no
> relevance to my major. For example, why do I have to know how to multiply
> i times the cube root of negative 37 plus 27/15 times y in order to
> get an English degree?

Because your next job may be a technical writer for an engineering firm. The more diverse your educational background, the more scholarly, better rounded, and marketable you willl be. I would suggest you approach each class with the same vigor that you approach your English classes...it's all valuable stuff. Being a scholar means more than studying what you like.

Having said that, you do realize that undergraduate education is not meant to be very specialized, don't you? You need to go to grad school if you want just English.

Wow. Hmmpth.
Well, I liked it okay I guess. High school was very different than college which was very different from graduate school. I had different outlooks as I was at different points in my life.

Mostly no, I didn't like school. Maybe I was too young to appreciate it. There were of course some good parts where I learned something or had a great experience learning that I still remember. The social stuff was mixed, some of it awful, some of it great. I did make many great friends in school, especially college, including my wife. I also got a great job via college (a part-time coop-like job that turned into a real job when I graduated). But, I think for the most part I learned important stuff on my own. Also, I learned more working than in school. And, all that was more practical. School had some really long boring parts that seem like mostly wasted time. School seems to be a poorly devised system. Though, I don't know of a better way to do it.

I Don't Go To School Anymore But When I Did I Was like You Cuz I Thought Some Bits Were Good But Other Bits Were Bad.

This is a joke right?

Launch.

I would like school now. I didn't like it much when I went.

If you want to really, really enjoy school, don't think that it is made of classes, teachers, or friends . . . realize that it is made of dreams, values, and your own energy. School is not FOR you, it is BY you.

That sounds like a lot of California, wheat-germ, crystal energy, bullcrap to me. I'm going with school is about learning.


See, I told you I wasn't going to behave.

I used to hate everything about school. There wasn't one thing I liked.

Cloudhugger's comment in qual was hilarious...

cloudhugger:

what's launch? The 3 o'clock bell?

lol!

Do you or did you?

I'm "too cool for school".

College was okay, but I couldn't stand high school. I don't think I belonged there.

School was OK

I loved Primary & Middle school 5-12yrs old , I found classes very easy and enjoyable ......... then I went to high school (12-16yrs) and all of a sudden it ceased being easy + they had things called exams now, and where I was "top flight" before, I was relegated to average in amongst the masses + I was the school joker and messed around too much

28 years of college, yeah, I'd say so.

I generally hang with the instructors, redefining curricula. The goal though is to keep socially active and stay inspired and active. Art classes are better than technical classes for bringing friends home.

I do drop most classes right away though if I don't free creative reign within them.

Ha! You said the same thing I did. Uh huh. You would have had a different down-east, flaxy, horse power, cowpiss idea if you'd said school was about teaching. But you actually agreed with me 'cause you said school is about learning. Teaching is FOR the student. Learning is BY the student. Ha again!! Try that logic, brave one.

i'm not in school.............. how come no choices?

I can't try that logic, cause it's not very logical. Dreams, values, and your own energy don't add up to learning in my book; they add up to California, wheat-germ, crystal energy bullcrap. For me learning is drill and repition.

For me, learning is understanding. Drill and repetition only help memorize. It's learning in a sense (it's good for remembering things that don't have conceptual rules) but if you don't understand the reasoning behind a concept, what's the point?

This is tautological, don't you think? JoAnne and I were having fun with quips; this was not meant to be overly conceptual, but pithy.

okay. I'm glad it gave me an opportunity to throw my 2 cents in anyway.

Well, I haven't been in skool in like 30 years, and since u sound like an early high skool kid that means about 38 years for me.
In those days there was no 'hanging with friends'. We had 30 minutes for lunch which was in the cafeteria, period. No one was allowed outside the school at any time until the end of the day. We had 10 minutes to run between classes.
To answer your question - school sucked. Working in the real world is much easier.

I liked elementary, hated junior high and high school, and loved college.

Does your mom know you're using the Internet?

But to answer your question, I do enjoy school..To me it's mostly academic, I'm not one of those kids who stand at their lockers until 30 seconds after the minute bell has rang to get to their class on the other side of the quad. Me, I'm there first and foremost for my education..If I get to crack jokes with my friends in class then that just makes school faaaaantaaaastic in my book...
I just really enjoy learning.

Oh, it's very logical. I think you just gagged at the words 'dreams, values and energy' in the same sentence.

Take them one at a time.

If you don't have energy you can't do any repetitions, once is enough. Drills don'tt make any sense if you don't value the outcome (i.e. quick reflexes) because who want's to work at something you don't believe in. A dream is a strongly desired goal or purpose.

To put it personally for you, you had a dream to become a soldier and a scholar. You valued what you wanted to be. You had the energy to do it.

Learning is done by the student, and the one with dreams, values and energy does it better, whether it's by drill and repetition or, um, just soaking up life - like they do in California.

We don't just 'soak' here, we 'flow' too.

You soak up the sun and go with the flow.

Ahhh, a little bit of perfection on earth. My older sister, officially an American citizen, lives in California. We've been lucky enough to visit her often over the years. I like my Canada too much to live anywhere else, but California tugs at me. Soaking and flowing are two of my favorite things to do!

When I was in school, I really hated it and could not wait until I graduated. But today--some 25 years later--I look back at my school days with great sentimental value, and I really miss it. (You'll probably miss it in your adulthood even more that I do since it appears that you like it so much now.)

I hated every minute I was in school

The learning is nice, but I hate the fact that you have to do it with other people. Not just ANY other people, oh no. The worst possible mix of people, all of them against me in some way, shape, or form.

I only half mean that, but yeah.

I did and I miss it

Canada reminds me of a box of sugar shortbread cookies and dirt-track racing, less like a movie.

Sure, as an adult. But your forgetting most kids would rather do just about anything rather than go to school. So, in school, dreams equal Sharon Ryan's overly developed boobies. Energy is anything that will get you out of school. And values are the exact opposite of what your parents say about...everything. Nope, I still say that as a child, learnin' is a kick in the ass from Dad in concert with the strictest teachers.

I would add some teens to that as well. Some teens have career based dreams, some don't. The ones that do should be allowed to have classes that cater to it.

What a strange and wonderful connection! Where does that memory come from?

Yep, you're right 'bout that. My first post was giving advice. I love that - energy is anything that will get you out of school. I have a 16 yr old son who has that kind of energy. Who's Sharon Ryan?

A.P. Launch was tough but I persevered despite the fact that John Houseman was teaching then. *sweatdrop*

She was my babysitter. Just as I thought, I would never need another babysitter, my parents went out of town for the weekend. They wouldn't leave me alone, so Sharon babysat me. I was 13, and she was 16. She had a rack that could knock over buildings. Anyway, the weekend my parents left Sharon made a man out me that whole weekend. I never forgot her.

Heading up to Alaska at a town near 150 Mile House. The Canadian supermarkets seemed to blockade the rest of the store with shortbread cookies, and only have one product each of tortillas, salsa, and refried beans, not an entire aisle full mole, nopalitos, chipotles, and such as they have here in LA,CA,US. The local entertainment at 150 Mile House was dirt-track stock-car racing at the drive-in theater (how appropiate sounding, come to think of it). The rest of Canada for me was round the clock drives though endless trees, up the gorgeous Cassiar Hwy., down the river gorges and such.


Here, the boulevards often have movie-set trucks setting up equipment somewhere. It wouldn't be hard to feel like you're in a movie here even if people didn't act that way.

13? I was babysitting evenings myself at age 8 or 9. I'm wondering if your parents knew what to be expecting with their plan more than you credit them for.

I didn't have it easy babysitting then though. My two clients were autististic or retarded pyromaniacs. I guess I could be trusted to prevent major distruction and use the phone if things got out of control. What the heck is a babysitter for a 13 year old supposed to do? Guard the liquor cabinet? Ask you to check in by phone if your parties take you out-of-state? I'd wonder if perhaps I'm just coming from being a Californian, but as far as I can make out from documentaries, even pre-teen Amish are throwing inter city ragers these days.

Or perhaps your parents hadn't taught you how to cook, wash dishes, or use the washing machine by that age; different culture than mine (new-age blue-collar poor). Oh right, you were sending bullies to the hospital by that age. I might have got a baby-sitter for a kid like you too. I guess you should be thankful they didn't hire Bruno Getz.

Woah! Take it easy there Wafer Breath! Slow down and smell the pages in your reader!

I didn't like school then, and I most likely wouldn't like it now. I am a terrible student because I love to challenge the teacher more than the teacher can challenge me.

That's pretty much all I do. I would think that's what any good teacher would want. You can't pass things on new things without having sources for new things. A failed teacher is one who's students don't eventually surpass him.

I loved elementary school. Middle school was pretty hellish at times, and I found high school fairly boring. However, I LOVED college. I finally fit in and found people like myself. (My friends had similar experiences when they arrived at Brown.)

Your explanation/comment is so poorly written that I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I hope you write in standard English in the academic setting. It would also be helpful here.

I don't go to school any more.

I think school is a great way for kids to develop social skills. You meet most of your friends at school. I enjoy learning about most subjects. Homework is just horrible.