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Post by The Star Fox on Aug 25, 2007 8:20:08 GMT -5
sure you do. It those ones where you either fall on your face or not.
You fall - you failed, stop crying and get back up ya whinearse. It wasn't like you fell from a height. You stay up - eventually you are gonna fall, so don't get too cocky ya little twat
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Post by bubbles on Aug 25, 2007 14:29:40 GMT -5
I learned to read and write, I learned grammar, I learned vocabulary, I learned many levels of mathematics, I learned how to behave in a social environment, I learned english, french and spanish, I learned the importance of activity, I learned how to play all the sports I know, I learned history, mythology, I learned how the past affects the present and how the present affects the future and I learned arts and music at school.
None of which I consider nothing. School rocks. D=<
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Post by The Star Fox on Aug 25, 2007 16:15:42 GMT -5
My kind of man. (This coming from a teacher of course ^^
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Aug 25, 2007 18:04:19 GMT -5
I've learned a few things at school: how not to write, how not to multiply, how the Native americans never used Birch trees for long houses, how I couldn't own a wolf, ECT. I was taught to write from bottom-to-top. (Wrong) To multiply by adding, oh say, like 5x5, as 5+5+5+5+5=25. (Not wrong, but I was taught the slowest method.) And yes, in fact, the native americans used whatever they damn well felt like putting on their longhouses.(I researched them well before this was ever a part of my class.) I owned a wolf hybrid. (Neener-Neener.) Then again, this was the same school that forced my brother, a severe asthmatic, with chronic mold, mildew, and dust allergies, to sit on a carpet that was put in place in 1980. My Family taught me: How to draw, how to write in cursive, how to solder, how to -really- write, how to multiply(And to think, My mom is bad at math, but doing it her way takes much less time.), how to sew, how to cook, bits and pieces of science(Bodily and otherwise), ECT,ECT,ECT. Not to mention how to actually sing my ABC's. I school I only knew Ah Buh Cuh Duh Eh Fu Guh. Not A B C D E F G. OK,OK, I DID learn some grammar .
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Post by limbowoman on Aug 25, 2007 22:15:50 GMT -5
Poppy, you must have went to a pretty damn good school... I can honestly say that I never learned anything at mine...
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Post by Clover on Aug 25, 2007 23:10:30 GMT -5
Man, I learnt oodles at mine... and pffft.. I always prefer older people. Not to sound snooty, but I have real issues with the vast majority of people my age--- I have no patience for people that act moronic 'because its cool'---which seems to be the vast majority of our peer group. So I get huffy. I really have no patience.
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Post by child-of-fae on Aug 26, 2007 0:02:49 GMT -5
clover, that's why i constantly think you're older than you really are. I went to catholic school. so that means i learned all the reasons my immortal soul may rot in the pits of hell for all eternity. i also learned why nuns are scary... uhm... really, a lot of stuff i learned is because i had teachers who encouraged me to read. when th eschool library would have $.25 book sales, and the rest of my class would be getting "sweet valley twins" or "Goosebumps" the librarian took me aside so i could check out all the novels the junior high students thought were too boring or difficult. I read through the Funk & Wagnals animal encyclopedia set twice in third grade. Reading, and debate. we never actually had debate classes, but our religion teacher (everyone's favourite) would let us explore intelligent ways to work out dissagreements, she would often give each of us a copy of the new york times, and we would have discussions about politics, or 'how much is too much' when it comes to living lavishly. So really, everything else i learned from books, except in the case of science, because we did lots of hands on projects. I also learned my home phone number from school. I would always blank out and say my grandparents' because it was only a few digits difference, and it was the only phone numbere i ever called. my parents taught me that when you fall, unless it's a broken or sprained bone, if there's no blood, you're fine. that and there's only so far you can push your sibs until they or your parents will act on karma's behalf.
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Post by Aindel on Aug 27, 2007 14:00:27 GMT -5
In school, I learned to build upon what I already knew. I was reading by the time I was two, so that was all me. School never really taught me anything there except that some people still can't read out loud properly after 14 years of classrooms. But they did build on the basic math skills I'd aquired, as well as taught me science, geography, some history (the rest coming from books I'd read). I learned from a combination of self-teaching, parents, and school. Problem is, when I'd already known whatever they were teaching, I'd kinda zoned out, which means school also taught me to have a really short attention span. This is now the reason that I'm having trouble teaching myself Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Post by child-of-fae on Aug 28, 2007 0:20:37 GMT -5
everyone used to think i had a really small attention span and possily had a.d.d., but now everyone's realised i'm THE procrastinator. I my dad, but according to everyone i kno, i'm the worst with time management.
now my mother and aunt are convinced i have a slight form of ocd. which, i really don't think is true, i'm allowed to have quirks, right?
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Aug 28, 2007 6:16:00 GMT -5
No, not at all possilbe, not allowed. At least I'm not allowed to have any T_T.
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Post by Trey on Aug 28, 2007 14:18:59 GMT -5
Clover, I have that problem. I recently went to a friend of mine's birthday, thing is, I'm twenty, and I think she just turned seventeen. Needless to say I'm pretty sure I was the only one there that could drive.
They're all fairly immature, but I just fell back and hung out with the ones I like. I can handle immaturity(for the most part). It's actual dumb people I can't stand..
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Post by limbowoman on Aug 28, 2007 22:38:30 GMT -5
...You're only stupid if you don't want to learn... and so many people don't want to...
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Post by Clover on Aug 29, 2007 15:00:35 GMT -5
See, I always read. Before I could read, my father was reading me Romeo and Juliet and Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. I was read the 'Paradiso' part as a bedtime story; I worked through 'Inferno' and 'Purgatorio' on my own.
Ironically, I'm the same--if I'm not challenged, my marks are horribly low. Except in math. I've developed a huge block. It's actually a little ironic (and lord, I hope y'all don't think I'm bragging). My problem is that my IQ falls in the 99.8th percentile. Which is kind of high. I qualify for somewhere between 'highly gifted' and 'genius' in most subjects--history, literature, languages, social sciences, hard sciences.... But people were so worried--- I was failing math. Often. So the school thought I had a learning disability. Got me in to see the District Psychiatrist, to test me and see if it was true.
What we found out was that, while I was in the 99.8th percentile in most everything, in anything to do with math, my IQ was in the 77.3rd percentile. Which is above average [Average is appx. 74.0].... but because it was so much lower then everything else, I'd hamstrung myself. Due to my facility in everything else, I'd never needed to study---so when it came time to do math, I had no idea how to go about it, thus I didn't study properly, thus I failed...and so convinced myself I was stupid-and-couldn't-do-math. Ah, irony.
And CWYS... I act older? Okay, how old do I act? I'm curious. *preen*
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Post by Trey on Aug 29, 2007 17:14:11 GMT -5
I love to read as well(The Gospel of the FSM is my current bedside companion).
Clover let's do calculus together!
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Post by Joe Shmoe on Aug 29, 2007 17:47:24 GMT -5
...You're only stupid if you don't want to learn... and so many people don't want to... You see, I love to learn though I was diagnosed with a learning disability. I love to spend spare time learning new things, like knitting, sewing, even diseases, medical procedures, and such.
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