Thread: Best and Worst School Subjects

Well, there's a difference between best/worst and favorite/least favorite.

Favorites: Foreign language; anything computer related; Earth Science
[/u]Least Favorites[/u]: Math; Life Sciences

Best: Foreign language - if you don't know why, go back to 8th grade; anything computer related - if you don't know why, go back to 4rd grade; Science - because it allows us to progress
Worst: P.E. - it's a crock of crap, and while you get the kids to exercise, you also make some of them hate to exercise and learn how to make excuses not to

I personally hate math, not because I think it's pointless, but because I'm forced to take a level of math where the stuff they teach I'm never going to use! I'm a Russian major. What do I need with sine, cosine, and tangent?

Originally posted by Amethyst Star
Worst: *P.E. - it's a crock of crap, and while you get the kids to exercise, you also make some of them hate to exercise and learn how to make excuses not to.

LOL, how true. I ended up Saturday detention for skipping Gym class two or three times. The only plus was doing obstacle course-y stuff with this hot exchange student...

My favorite class: Accounting, because my teacher always kept me busy.

My least favorite class: Travel/Tourism, because the class is a joke. What kind of idiot visits a National Park--in Utah.

Learn from an old master. Every subject involves math. From mechanics to art to music. Math is involved in every aspect of every subject. Every letter you read on this screen is created by mathematics I'll give you an illustration. Take drawing for instance. Did you know the are only 3 types of lines you could draw to draw anything. A straight line, an arc, and a circle. There is no geometric pattern other than that. Food for thought.

Best/favorites: Art, philosphy, and languge

Worst/hate: anything that includes math

Originally posted by Hate

Maybe I'm just an oddball, but I do like both logic (math, physics) and creative reasoning (literature, arts).

Nah, you're not an oddball. I was just taking an uneducated guess with the two-halves of the brain thing.

There is hardly any "creativity" in english. Which might be why its so boring.

Originally posted by dreamtamer007
Learn from an old master. Every subject involves math. From mechanics to art to music. Math is involved in every aspect of every subject.

Well, math's definitely not an important part of my major: foreign language. I don't really plan to study math over in Russia, so why should I have to study it? The only words related to math I would possibly say would be "add, subtract, plus, minus, times/multiplied by, divide" or some other really really simple stuff like that. I have no intention of learning the word "quadratic" ever in another language.

BRING ON THE GRAMMAR!

Originally posted by Amethyst Star


Well, math's definitely not an important part of my major: foreign language. *I don't really plan to study math over in Russia, so why should I have to study it? *The only words related to math I would possibly say would be \"add, subtract, plus, minus, times/multiplied by, divide\" or some other really really simple stuff like that. *I have no intention of learning the word \"quadratic\" ever in another language.

BRING ON THE GRAMMAR!

I didn’t say you had to study it. Its just interesting that it encompasses everything.

Its not about the math its about problem solveing, its a way of thinking. Even the most complex things can be broken down into smaller steps then using the steps you can figure out the bigger problem. I would say atleast learn algebra, you don't want to go through life totally clueless.

Nice thread idea.

Best/Good Subjects:
[list][*]English - I love the way you can get lost in the text you are reading, lapping up the metaphors and building a mental picture that beats any movie you could possibly imagine. I'd love to write a book someday. (I've been predicted an A in English).[*]Maths - The logic involved is also really fun, I like how everything just fits together logically. You'll be learning one subject, then something else you have learnt fits into it suddenly, and the usefulness of Maths pratically doubles. I also like it because it is not at all pointless. I can think of a million ways I'll be using it in life, and that only motivates me to learn more. Predicted A.[*]Science - This is a really easy class for me, and I consistenly come out with the highest marks in the year (w/o having to actually revise or anything). I like to know exactly how the world works, and why things do what they do. Predicted A.[*]ICT - Obviously. I've used compuers since I was six, and basically computers acted like the replacement for the friends I never had in my youth (because we weren't too hot for money, and so there was barely anybody else around, and I wasn't too sociable anyway). The lessons are full of shit, because I don't think the goverment has "got it" in computing. They're important for your life, and you are likely to end up using one once a week or so later, I'd predict, and some people don't even know the basics (ie: how to change a text colour, place a border around something in excel). Anyway, I'm several universes ahead of the teacher and the pupils, and the teacher has at least noticed that, but I took it for a GCSE anyway. Predicted A*.[*]Music - I envy people that can create music, but I do enjoy learning how to use the keyboards and I can actually (just about) read a sheet of music, which I like to be able to do. I can almost play "Yellow Submarine" I could play the Can Can, Fur Elise, part of "dance of the sugar plum fairy" or whatever it was called. Oh, and a bit of the "Postman Pat" theme tune. I rule. Predicted C (this is a pass ) but I'm not settling for just any old pass, I'm going to bring it up to an A anyway.
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Subjects I Don't Have a Passion For (But I Like)
[list][*]Religious Education - My Geography teacher expressed surprise when I chose this subject for one of my final high school grades [GCSEs]. It's really easy, although sometimes it makes me balk a little when I see things that are a bit weird. I don't really have a passion for it, though, it just came out on top of the crappy options that we got presented with. But it's important for people - you should know what other people believe in so you're able to respect them, etc. Predicted A* (because it's so easy).[*]History - I didn't take it for a GCSE, but we should all learn from our mistakes, even moreso the mistakes of others. I find it really intresting, too. I would of considered it for a GCSE option (I was a predicted A) but the teacher is a really stupid teacher - we watched James Bond and compared it to the French Resistance. Ugh.[*]Resistant Materials (more or less cutting up wood) - I had to choose a "technology" subject for my final grades - there was making food [i'm good at this], sowing [hate it], care [babies? DIE] and graphics design [still can't draw for shit, although i like designing websites, if that counts]. I chose resistant materials. It's easy. Chop some pieces of wood, stick them together, ta-da! Instant pass and grade for later life. Predicted C or something.
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Subjects I Hate and Learn Nothing In (Because I don't really want to)
[list][*]French - I don't have the motivation for it, and I think English is the best language on the planet. I've learnt it for the mandatory three years now and I'm just about sick of it. I can't remmber a single word, because I don't really want to. Luckily it ends this year. I would of rather learnt something that I found intresting or perhaps useful for me in later life. Japanese would of been 1000% better. Japan is alot more intresting for me (technology land!). France is just the sucks.[*]PE - UGH. Let's try and keep this brief: it's crap. I can do some exercise on the funny dance mat I have at home. I just hate that lesson, and the PE teachers understand that. Basically, we've come to an unspoken agreement. I sit down and don't do anything, and basically sit out in the sun, and they just get on with the other 34 white gangstas they have to deal with. I could write volumes about the little battle of endurance me and the teachers had. They got fed up, I won, everybody ignores each other. I'm happy.[*]Geography - Not really a fan of this lesson, but that could be because of bad teaching more than anything else. She's a real bitch, and if you've got a bitchy teacher, any motivation you would of had for it just gets thrown out the window.[*]Drama - I love standing up in front of people and doing a speech or performing, and handle myself really well, but the subject is (full of shit) really, really good. Yeah. The teacher happens to be a bit of a delusional one. She says pratically to anybody who won't shut up "you have talent, you just need to restrain yourself". And they believe her. Hm.[*]Art - Simply cannot draw for shit. No talent, no motivation, stupid teacher, subject's out. I do envy people who can draw though, and I appreciate art.
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Hope that didn't bore you too much. I keep getting all these predicted A's I wonder if the teachers are just bullshitting sometimes. But the lessons are just pretty easy. RE teacher (who doubles up as the 'smart people helper') said I was supposed to be in the top 12% of school kids for intelligence. Or some crap like that.

Originally posted by Kaniaz
French - I don't have the motivation for it, and I think English is the best language on the planet. I've learnt it for the mandatory three years now and I'm just about sick of it. I can't remmber a single word, because I don't really want to. Luckily it ends this year. I would of rather learnt something that I found intresting or perhaps useful for me in later life. Japanese would of been 1000% better. Japan is alot more intresting for me (technology land!). France is just the sucks.

I was thinking of learning spanish. I really don't want to but it would make everything so much easier because there are so many spanish people here who can't speak english, or are really bad at it.

I love: Japanese, Choir, and any type of instrumental class.

I like: English, Math, Social Studies, Science, Debate and PE.

I hate: Health.

I want to take: Philosophy, Psycology, and French.

I like and excel in:
Music - I started in the 5th grade in the school band and I performed in the percussion section. I continued in that for seven years and I got very good at it and reading complex rhythms. Ask me to read the different notes for the melodic percussion instruments (bells, vibraphone, marimba, etc.) and I am a 5th grader trying to learn again.

I dislike and do not do well in:
Creative Writing - I have never been one to be good at actually putting creative concepts down on paper. I have a good imagination but putting it onto paper elludes me. Also determining the entire structure of a piece has never been my strong point either.

Thanks for such detail Kaniaz, it was a good read.

Favorite = technology, social studies, lunch, german
Least favorite= math, english, gym

We need lucid dreaming classes in school! Or would that fall under psychology classes?

[quote]Nice thread idea.

Subjects I Hate and Learn Nothing In (Because I don't really want to)[*]PE -UGH. Let's try and keep this brief: it's crap.

Kaniaz You look like you have well-rounded interest. You are awake and know what’s going on in the world around you. If I where in your shoes I would be content for one thing but I would like to recommend increasing your interest in PE. It will take a little discipline, but you'll be a happier person for it in the long run

You're right. I've been trying for a couple of months to get regular exercise in at home (can't stand doing it at school), and it was rewarding to be able to measure the difference in my physical abilites. I used to not be able to run one length of the school racetrack without running out of breath (screams of not healthy!). Although, I think I pissed all the jocks off when, I, the "stupid geek who isn't supposed to be able to run faster than them", ran around the racetrack and beat all (bar one). That was good. It shattered their delusions, if nothing else.

I've been slipping on that recently though. I have to keep exercising...I should kick myself when I don't.

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I am a history teacher now, but I used to teach math. I have also taught a lot of science and English. In my experience, algebra and geometry seem to be the most hated subjects there are. They really brought out the worst in some people's personalities. I sometimes got the impression that certain students would associate me with the algebra and geometry and therefore hate my guts. It was really bizarre. I have never been hated by a student of a non-math subject.

Well, this thread hasn't been posted in for awhile.

My favorite subjects are:
English - I love being able to read great literature and free writing, but I hate book reports!
Music - Music is pretty much my life, and as some of you know, I am a producer of Trance music (which can be listened to at http://www.audiostreet.net/artist.aspx?art...9711&mode=music ). I love music theory and how the chords can build on one another and how one note is used in several chords and can make interesting progressions.
Math - It's not my most favorite, but I do enjoy problem solving (but HATE graphing and quadratics and such.)

My least favorite subjects are:
History: This is a sort of off and on subject for me. I like the concepts behind economy and politics from past years, but I despise the dates and numbers and documents. Also it depends on the teacher.
Phy. Ed. Who the hell invented this? All it is is running around, on occasion lifting weights, and sometimes some sort of pointless game where the jocks throw balls at the rest of us as hard as they can. I'm glad I only have to take it for 2 more years.