That's something I'll never quite understand about "Real" schools in my generation. As a child, I was home schooled by a strict mother, who graduated from high school in the 1960s. Calculators were banned during school hours, period; and software was only used as a study aids/material, not for finding the answer to something. You did it on the work paper and in your head, no scratch paper either. Then you checked it again in your head, error fixing was the rubber end of a No.2 pencil. Anything else was unacceptable.
My education practically ended at the third grade, but I'll be damned if I ever had to ask a calculator during school time, and no multiplication tables!!!
For more estoric subjects of math and science, I can can get the idea of using a calculator (or better yet, computational software) but if you are supposed to be learning how to DO arithmetic or simple algebra, what's the point of learning how to use a machine in order to get the answer, instead of using your noggin' ?
Last year, I was fumbling through my brothers old high school books, looking around for his Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry text books, in the hopes of learning some of it. Flipping through the books, I could not help but think.. if I had been given that as a child like around 8 years old, maybe school wouldn't have left me bored stiffer then a titanium rod for so many years. If I ever have kids, they're learnin' whatever they are old enough to understand and pick up -- not at what pace the school system decides to feeds it to them.
I just hope she doesn't get Hungary and eat the Turkey.
I have to say, I know too many people with comparable gaps in general knowledge. Sometimes it happens to me that I find myself reading and stumbling over a word and I don't know what it means because it is so rare in todays language or whatever excuse I find for not knowing and I really feel bad about it because someone could mistake me for a dumb person then LOL.
About calculators: The new ones here in Lower Saxony can do more than math... I once saw Doom being played on one. Looks worse than old Nintendo, but still, a First Person Shooter on a calculator. Now that what I would call an EPIC FAIL, because our teachers wouldnt get anyone to do the real useful stuff on those things, everyone was playing Tetris instead.
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I think aslong as you enjoy life, and try to be the best you can be in ur chosen field, then thats all that matters, people get so caught up in learning about all sorts of other things they neglect what really matters in there lives. id rather be the best at one subject, than a jack of all trades but a master of non.
i think schools these days teach so much bull**** its not even true. i went through school being bored of most subjects, getting average grades simply because i couldnt be botherd, as soon as i hit college and uni all of a sudden a hit the top of my class.
Yes, you should learn about general things which would help you in ur life, things which might come up in coversation, but that doesnt mean you need to learn everything. focus on what counts and aim to get to the top!
That's something I'll never quite understand about "Real" schools in my generation. As a child, I was home schooled by a strict mother, who graduated from high school in the 1960s. Calculators were banned during school hours, period; and software was only used as a study aids/material, not for finding the answer to something. You did it on the work paper and in your head, no scratch paper either. Then you checked it again in your head, error fixing was the rubber end of a No.2 pencil. Anything else was unacceptable.
My education practically ended at the third grade, but I'll be damned if I ever had to ask a calculator during school time, and no multiplication tables!!!
For more estoric subjects of math and science, I can can get the idea of using a calculator (or better yet, computational software) but if you are supposed to be learning how to DO arithmetic or simple algebra, what's the point of learning how to use a machine in order to get the answer, instead of using your noggin' ?
Last year, I was fumbling through my brothers old high school books, looking around for his Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry text books, in the hopes of learning some of it. Flipping through the books, I could not help but think.. if I had been given that as a child like around 8 years old, maybe school wouldn't have left me bored stiffer then a titanium rod for so many years. If I ever have kids, they're learnin' whatever they are old enough to understand and pick up -- not at what pace the school system decides to feeds it to them.
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I have to say, I know too many people with comparable gaps in general knowledge. Sometimes it happens to me that I find myself reading and stumbling over a word and I don't know what it means because it is so rare in todays language or whatever excuse I find for not knowing and I really feel bad about it because someone could mistake me for a dumb person then LOL.
About calculators: The new ones here in Lower Saxony can do more than math... I once saw Doom being played on one. Looks worse than old Nintendo, but still, a First Person Shooter on a calculator. Now that what I would call an EPIC FAIL, because our teachers wouldnt get anyone to do the real useful stuff on those things, everyone was playing Tetris instead.
This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
I think aslong as you enjoy life, and try to be the best you can be in ur chosen field, then thats all that matters, people get so caught up in learning about all sorts of other things they neglect what really matters in there lives. id rather be the best at one subject, than a jack of all trades but a master of non.
i think schools these days teach so much bull**** its not even true. i went through school being bored of most subjects, getting average grades simply because i couldnt be botherd, as soon as i hit college and uni all of a sudden a hit the top of my class.
Yes, you should learn about general things which would help you in ur life, things which might come up in coversation, but that doesnt mean you need to learn everything. focus on what counts and aim to get to the top!
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