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Indeed! How could I forget?
OP---fill up RL's PM box with all sorts of math/science questions. You will learn tons.
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OP,
Grades = options. Yes, I'm sure you will handle what comes along in the future. But choices are a nice thing to have. At some point you will think to yourself "I'd really like to do X." And guess what? X is very likely to be an easier thing to get into if you have good grades.
Grades result from performance on tests, written work outside of class, and attendance/performance in class. All of those things are important components of learning.
Memorizing facts is important because you need to have those facts in your memory in order to apply them to problems. You also need them in memory to integrate them with other areas of knowledge, and to see connections you may not otherwise have seen. Progress in knowledge is teeming with examples of thinkers who "saw" an analogy between the problem they were working on, and another phenomenon they knew about, and that analogy was the key to progress. Newton could not stand on the shoulders of giants, if he had not learned what those giants had discovered.
Finally, you can't know whether your teachers, or other students, all "know" less than you do in some cosmic, life-experience/wisdom, sense. Your assumption that they all know less than you is not only without good basis, but it's interfering with your life. It makes it harder for you to learn from others, harder to relate to others, and harder to work on those academic subjects.
What I see in your original post is really a gigantic rationalization for feeling a little hostile/annoyed/burnt-out at the process of school. And hey, those feelings are normal. We've all had them. But by constructing this false rationalization--by telling yourself that you're feeling this way because you know more, the system is screwed up, and your feelings are right--you never engage with the actual cause of the feelings, and you prevent yourself from learning more about where they come from.
Ironically, the attitude in your original post is a recipe for a closed mind, not an open one; a prescription for self-ignorance, not self-knowledge.
Listen, if you ever come across someone from whom you could learn nothing, or not find the good in, then you personally have failed in that encounter. You're going to want to adjust your attitude towards your teachers and classmates. That's going to be hard. Here's one way to start:
1. Stop constantly thinking negative things about them. Focus on positive things they can do. Train your mind to do this.
2. ACT as though you think more positively about them. It may sound fake, but your behavior will actually lead to a change in attitude. Ask questions. Look not only for mistakes in what others say, but also for good points. Acknowledge those good points to yourself. Find something to compliment in others, and then do so.
Do these things, and you will find yourself a happier person.
Keep up with the schoolwork, and you will find yourself a calmer and happier person.
Grades = options. Yes, I'm sure you will handle what comes along in the future. But choices are a nice thing to have. At some point you will think to yourself "I'd really like to do X." And guess what? X is very likely to be an easier thing to get into if you have good grades.
Grades result from performance on tests, written work outside of class, and attendance/performance in class. All of those things are important components of learning.
Memorizing facts is important because you need to have those facts in your memory in order to apply them to problems. You also need them in memory to integrate them with other areas of knowledge, and to see connections you may not otherwise have seen. Progress in knowledge is teeming with examples of thinkers who "saw" an analogy between the problem they were working on, and another phenomenon they knew about, and that analogy was the key to progress. Newton could not stand on the shoulders of giants, if he had not learned what those giants had discovered.
Finally, you can't know whether your teachers, or other students, all "know" less than you do in some cosmic, life-experience/wisdom, sense. Your assumption that they all know less than you is not only without good basis, but it's interfering with your life. It makes it harder for you to learn from others, harder to relate to others, and harder to work on those academic subjects.
What I see in your original post is really a gigantic rationalization for feeling a little hostile/annoyed/burnt-out at the process of school. And hey, those feelings are normal. We've all had them. But by constructing this false rationalization--by telling yourself that you're feeling this way because you know more, the system is screwed up, and your feelings are right--you never engage with the actual cause of the feelings, and you prevent yourself from learning more about where they come from.
Ironically, the attitude in your original post is a recipe for a closed mind, not an open one; a prescription for self-ignorance, not self-knowledge.
Listen, if you ever come across someone from whom you could learn nothing, or not find the good in, then you personally have failed in that encounter. You're going to want to adjust your attitude towards your teachers and classmates. That's going to be hard. Here's one way to start:
1. Stop constantly thinking negative things about them. Focus on positive things they can do. Train your mind to do this.
2. ACT as though you think more positively about them. It may sound fake, but your behavior will actually lead to a change in attitude. Ask questions. Look not only for mistakes in what others say, but also for good points. Acknowledge those good points to yourself. Find something to compliment in others, and then do so.
Do these things, and you will find yourself a happier person.
Keep up with the schoolwork, and you will find yourself a calmer and happier person.
rangrz
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ya know, I learned alot more about say, how to ream a hole in metal AFTER college, by doing it, then I did while in school.
school is not the ultimate way to learn anything except the sciences. (my time in uni pharma chem was awesome) for anything else, you learn alot more by doing, as opposed to writing essays about.
school is not the ultimate way to learn anything except the sciences. (my time in uni pharma chem was awesome) for anything else, you learn alot more by doing, as opposed to writing essays about.
Jerry Atrick
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This.