Re: School System and Type
Re: School System and Type
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Originally Posted by Diana
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Originally Posted by Slava
Did anyone here have any specific issues with any teachers/professors because of type related interaction/misunderstanding. Did your grades every suffer because of teaching style vs your learning style? Did you ever feel like school was doing more harm than good?
Not really, although I had one prof. for Biometry and since I took off days from class/tests for religious holidays that usually fell on the same days as Jewish holy days, he assumed I was Jewish. When I then had him for Entomology the next semester I noticed that he had scheduled every single test to fall on a Jewish holiday. I loved the expression on his face when I showed up for a test. (It just happened that that year they didn't exactly match up). Quite through him for a loop. :lol: I in turn decided to keep some key specimens that I had found that he really really wanted for the school's collection :D They were mine after all.
What is your religion Diana?
Re: School System and Type
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Originally Posted by Slava
Did anyone here have any specific issues with any teachers/professors because of type related interaction/misunderstanding. Did your grades every suffer because of teaching style vs your learning style? Did you ever feel like school was doing more harm than good?
I had more problems with the school setting as whole than with particular teachers. As in I would have liked to work out my own schedules of learning. But following a plan and schedule made by other people was hard. Perhaps my issues were with the people who decide how school should work.
Ok. Perhaps teachers who required us to write down zillions of memos and memorize them inside and out were difficult. Teachers who were overly abstract were bad too. I was more into learning by doing and learning with flexible self designed schedule than learning by memorizing concrete or abstract stuff in a strict schedule.
My college grades have constantly been better than pre-college grades because of the added freedom. I can't say traditional school setting was doing more harm than good but it could have done more good than it did. Only thing I'm critical about college is the slightly too theory heavy approach which doesn't always translate well to world outside of college. I like theory and practice in a balanced package learned with an approach and schedule most suitable to myself.