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Sweet Jane · 03-16-2005, 05:36 PM

I don't know what the US is doing differently in education because I don't know anything about your education system at a lower level. You'll have to enlighten me on that one to get any kind of discussion going.

School was.... an awful experience, basically. I liked the innocence of it all, but I hated the uniforms (actually thats one difference I seem to have noted, we pretty much always wear uniforms, its more of a discipline thing and helps to spot intruders coming in to cause trouble) and the silly rules, your entire day being decided by a bell.
Class-wise though, english and languages obviously teach you something. Sure, you don't remember it all, and some of it becomes irrelevant, such as learning how to talk about your school, but some of the fundamentals stick with you, and its much easier to pick up the language when you travel than if you were a complete beginner. I always loved english, and modern studies, which was basically talking about politics and what was going on in the news so obviously relevant to everything. History, and little snippets of geography and biology remain with you, and who wouldn't want to understand anything about their own body or the world in which they live? I find anything with rules that I had to make a concsious effort to 'learn' rather than finding i understood leaves your head right after the exam - most of maths, chemistry is all gone now, though I am one of those people who hates sums and prefers writing so maybe that opinion is only personal to me. I dislike everything for which you can't think for yourself, there is only one right answer and that is the word of the maths Gods. Bah.

03-16-2005, 05:36 PM	#2 (permalink)
Sweet Jane Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 546	I don't know what the US is doing differently in education because I don't know anything about your education system at a lower level. You'll have to enlighten me on that one to get any kind of discussion going. School was.... an awful experience, basically. I liked the innocence of it all, but I hated the uniforms (actually thats one difference I seem to have noted, we pretty much always wear uniforms, its more of a discipline thing and helps to spot intruders coming in to cause trouble) and the silly rules, your entire day being decided by a bell. Class-wise though, english and languages obviously teach you something. Sure, you don't remember it all, and some of it becomes irrelevant, such as learning how to talk about your school, but some of the fundamentals stick with you, and its much easier to pick up the language when you travel than if you were a complete beginner. I always loved english, and modern studies, which was basically talking about politics and what was going on in the news so obviously relevant to everything. History, and little snippets of geography and biology remain with you, and who wouldn't want to understand anything about their own body or the world in which they live? I find anything with rules that I had to make a concsious effort to 'learn' rather than finding i understood leaves your head right after the exam - most of maths, chemistry is all gone now, though I am one of those people who hates sums and prefers writing so maybe that opinion is only personal to me. I dislike everything for which you can't think for yourself, there is only one right answer and that is the word of the maths Gods. Bah. __________________ Calvin: "Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?" Hobbes: "I'm not sure that man needs the help."