School Lessons General Chat

[Gemma]

What were your favourite and least favourite lessons at school?

I think I'd have to go with History being my favourite. I always found it fascinating and the teacher we had a bit of a gift for storytelling and explaining things in an easy to understand manner so even the daftest of kids would actually settle down and listen.

Worst for me was probably geography. I never understood why instead of learning about where countries and capital cities were we had to learn about how a volcano and an earthquake happens.

 

[Emma]

I loved biology at school.

Hated art as I can't draw or paint things. My art teacher used to write things like "pathetic" and "poor effort" on my work

 

[Soffie]

Loved English. Teachers were usually nice too.

Worst was always Maths for me. And we had a terrifying short woman as our teacher (and I speak as a non-terrifying, but short woman). She once read the results starting with who came last. Even I was surprised it was me once. So I punched the air and laughed. Either that or cry. She was furious.

 

[Mouth]

Favourite: Religion. I could never take it seriously even as a very young child.
Hated: Music because I couldn't sing and the teacher was big on humiliating kids who couldn't.

 

[Fraser]

History, English, Art and Media Studies were my favourites but I detested maths, chemistry and physics (didn't mind biology, CDT and IT).

 

[Jess]

Found IT painfully boring. Just learning how to use Excel and run algorithms, and by the end of each lesson I'd end up in trouble because my concentration had gone and I'd start mucking around.

Loved English (probably because that was the only subject I truly excelled at) and science, particularly biology.

 

[8-Ball]

Favourite - PE as I was dead sporty (still am) and a natural. Academically English, maths, geography history. Didn't mind science and metalwork/woodwork for a laugh without necessarily being any good.

Least favourite - RE, art, French.

Loved learning and still do. Hated my secondary school with a passion though. The mainly uninterested teachers made it a graveyard of ambition.

 

[Snoops]

I'd have happily do PE all day every day, but not cross country running.

I hated Chemistry, but mainly because of the teacher

 

[Deleted member 63]

History, English, Music were favorites throughout school. Latin for my last three years of high school (I ended doing classics for my undergrad major).

Much as I am fascinated by numbers and maths, math was my least favorite. I struggled at it and found the grunt work to be a chore

Footnote: I grew up in the province of Ontario, Canada and back when I was in school, we had 5 years of high school (ie. Grade 13 was the final year) if you were going to university.

 

[Mouth]

I hated Chemistry, but mainly because of the teacher

A bad teacher can really ruin a lesson, and a good one can really turn things around. I hated English until about year 10, then got an amazing teacher and really enjoyed it for the last 2 years.