I actually surprisingly didn't fail maths. My teacher actually tried her best to not have to fail me. But I did fail geography, biology, and Polish. And something else, geez, what was it? Oh, physics! Yes, that I failed. Had to repeat second grade of high school XD

memoriam wrote:Why do they teach us ridiculous useless things at school?

Oh, well, some things seem useless but there is a purpose in them. Which as a student may not be so obvious.
Others are not though. Our educational plans need a complete makeover, just policians are never ready to give the step.

memoriam wrote:Also, I'm a bit drunk so forgive me if I ramble about random shit.

You are posting in a forum while drunk? XDDDD




Btw back in my day repeating a year or two was pretty normal.
Now it does not happen so much, and people feel it as a sign of failure.
It's just personal optics, if you think about it.

Yeah i attempted to take/try all the sciences (biology, physics, chemistry). But chem was filled with memorization and physics was full of MATH. XD the only one i kept in the end was biology i think. I remember dissecting a fetal pig. The science hallway for that week smelled soooo bad. XD;;

Amura wrote:

memoriam wrote:Why do they teach us ridiculous useless things at school?

Oh, well, some things seem useless but there is a purpose in them. Which as a student may not be so obvious.
Others are not though. Our educational plans need a complete makeover, just policians are never ready to give the step.

Yeah, I know. But still, most of my education is completely useless in my daily life. Who cares about the paleozoic or glaciers or whatever. I like nice rocks called crystals (even if they're technically not a crystal) but I don't need to know when in the history of our planet they began forming or shit.
I'd rather have some class on social behaviors like how to deal with emotions, how to cope with the stress of a job interview etc.

Amura wrote:

memoriam wrote:Also, I'm a bit drunk so forgive me if I ramble about random shit.
You are posting in a forum while drunk? XDDDD

Yes, why not? XD

Amura wrote:Btw back in my day repeating a year or two was pretty normal.
Now it does not happen so much, and people feel it as a sign of failure.
It's just personal optics, if you think about it.

In my time it was deemed you're an idiot if you repeated a year, don't even say more than once, then you're a dumb ass.

Hotarla wrote:Yeah i attempted to take/try all the sciences (biology, physics, chemistry). But chem was filled with memorization and physics was full of MATH. XD the only one i kept in the end was biology i think. I remember dissecting a fetal pig. The science hallway for that week smelled soooo bad. XD;;

Well, for me they were all obligatory, in Poland we can choose only our extended material classes, everything else that's "basic" is obligatory.
Luckily we don't have cutting frogs or pigs in our biology classes. At least I've never met anyone who had to do it. Or maybe I just skipped that class and no one ever told me xD I don't think so, boys would be ecstatic for a week at least.

memoriam wrote:Yes, why not? XD

That's not proper drunk behaviour, young lady.
You ought to be doing those absolutely silly things which for some reason seem bold and amusing when you are drunk.
Running backwards in a crowded street, trying to fit a whole bag of chips in your mouth all at once, taking and sharing ridiculous photos, posting an absurd line on facebook, making out with people you don't want to know, texting your ex. That sort of stupid thing!

I haven't been drunk in ages, but believe that's one of those situations in which KofK would never cross my mind

Ohhh so you HAD to take those classes? For us, those separate sciences were optional. As were several other classes such as the various branch math classes. French, on the other hand, i think it was mandatory til like…grade 9 or something. Afterwards, it was optional.

I never really learned how to speak much french. 8u even though i took french all through 10-12 grades, even though it was optional by then.

@Amura: Lol, I wasn't THAT drunk. I merely had a minor urge to call my ex and tell him I miss him XD
I just had a few vodka shots with my dad, he made it from pomegranate.

@Hotarla: Yeah, I had to take all that. In Poland, they're all considered mandatory as long as it's the "basic" material, no matter the subject.
I never learned French, but I was forced to learn German for three years in middle school - did not learn it. Had four years of Russian in high school - also didn't learn it. I can say no more than any other person.

oh. wow yeah no its not mandatory to take all the sciences. xD thank goodness i could drop them.

pffffft i think its harder to learn a language in a class than it is if you were to learn it yourself. xD;; like i find that if i watch something in a different language with subtitles, i'm more likely to learn a bit of the language than if i had to take a class for it.

@mem:
Ah, ok, you were only tipsy then. That I can understand, posting while tipsy.
Hopefully you did not do that (regretable) phone call!


@Hot:
I don't think you can't learn grammar watching movies. You can catch words though, I think it's good to improve vocabulary.
But for grammar, sentence construction and all that, I think classes are the second best option - because nothing beats moving into another country!

Hotarla wrote:oh. wow yeah no its not mandatory to take all the sciences. xD thank goodness i could drop them.

pffffft i think its harder to learn a language in a class than it is if you were to learn it yourself. xD;; like i find that if i watch something in a different language with subtitles, i'm more likely to learn a bit of the language than if i had to take a class for it.

I was pretty good at all the languages at school (B in German, A in Russian), I just didn't care to continue them later because blergh, German/Russian, ew, lol.

Amura wrote:@mem:
Ah, ok, you were only tipsy then. That I can understand, posting while tipsy.
Hopefully you did not do that (regretable) phone call!


@Hot:
I don't think you can't learn grammar watching movies. You can catch words though, I think it's good to improve vocabulary.
But for grammar, sentence construction and all that, I think classes are the second best option - because nothing beats moving into another country!

I did not, my rats distracted me Idk, my dad said we drank a lot, so I believe him XD Maybe just not to the point of getting smashed. In that case I never get drunk, just tipsy more or less.

There are several techniques to learn a language and it also depends on a person's learning style. I believe there are 4 or 5, not sure. But watching/listening to content in another language actually also teaches you grammar, just not the theory but more of the practical use. Some people need to understand the rules of the language first before they can communicate in it, though.