What's one thing you remember being taught from school? Do you feel like what you remember is valuable knowledge?
I can't remember much aside from random, funny things like "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" LOL
I feel like school didn't teach me about any of the things I had a genuine interest in, and if it eventually did, I was way past those basics already. I was very bored with it and started slacking off which was bad.
like,,,,,my art class in high school covered //gasp// THE COLOR WHEEL x"D like omg,,,,,mixing red and yellow makes orange,,,,,,,,,,,what a wild, insane concept that I had never heard of before x"DDD it would have been useful to learn something else like point perspectives, how to draw folds in clothing, or more in-depth color / value studies. but nah. it was as dumbed-down as possible because it was catering to everyone else who had never drawn in their lives, not to me.
I remember learning punnett squares in biology my freshman year of high school. I had already learned about them in my free time back in junior high, and by that point, I knew full dog coat color genetics and was working on cats, horses, and humans. I probably knew more about genetics than my teacher did,,,,,so re-learning something as basic as punnett squares felt like a punishment.
as for things like math and chemistry that actually challenged me,,,,,I haven't used any of that at all in the real world, and I've probably forgotten everything aside from basic algebra and geometry.
it would have been super cool if I could have just skipped ahead to focus on things I enjoyed. it didn't feel like valuable knowledge or something new and interesting. I have zero real-world skills. it was pretty darn pointless.
I feel like school didn't teach me about any of the things I had a genuine interest in, and if it eventually did, I was way past those basics already. I was very bored with it and started slacking off which was bad.
like,,,,,my art class in high school covered //gasp// THE COLOR WHEEL x"D like omg,,,,,mixing red and yellow makes orange,,,,,,,,,,,what a wild, insane concept that I had never heard of before x"DDD it would have been useful to learn something else like point perspectives, how to draw folds in clothing, or more in-depth color / value studies. but nah. it was as dumbed-down as possible because it was catering to everyone else who had never drawn in their lives, not to me.
I remember learning punnett squares in biology my freshman year of high school. I had already learned about them in my free time back in junior high, and by that point, I knew full dog coat color genetics and was working on cats, horses, and humans. I probably knew more about genetics than my teacher did,,,,,so re-learning something as basic as punnett squares felt like a punishment.
as for things like math and chemistry that actually challenged me,,,,,I haven't used any of that at all in the real world, and I've probably forgotten everything aside from basic algebra and geometry.
it would have been super cool if I could have just skipped ahead to focus on things I enjoyed. it didn't feel like valuable knowledge or something new and interesting. I have zero real-world skills. it was pretty darn pointless.