MintGlow 130 June 12 Share June 12 (edited) 43 minutes ago, IronM17 said: religion (it was always boring and I realyl early started to not belive into this) Same, I find it useless (to me atleast), but I used to use it as a freetime so it wasn't too bad. Edited June 12 by MintGlow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iforgotmybrain 6,851 June 12 Share June 12 2 hours ago, IronM17 said: I was never a big fan of the subjects german, english (I was never a fan of languages in school), religion (it was always boring and I realyl early started to not belive into this) and sports (felt for me like wasted time). For the other subjects, it depended on which teacher I had. 1 hour ago, MintGlow said: Same, I find it useless (to me atleast), but I used to use it as a freetime so it wasn't too bad. Did you guys have mandatory religion classes? I find that really interesting, the only religious class I remember having in my public US education was just a general “religions of the world” class which was itself an elective. Love learning about little differences like this. I was never a fan of higher level math classes, basically anything from advanced algebra into calculus. Math as a concept is cool but actually doing it sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raskolnikov 1,566 June 12 Share June 12 (edited) I'd say math just for all my childhood suffering lol, but in retrospect what was bad about it was the dry and unintuitive teaching that never felt applicable to real life, which is a criminal thing to do to any suspect and destroys interest... For example I didn't mind it in science subjects nearly as much even when I struggled with it because at least there were understandable contexts in which the math was applied. At least more than maths. Since people brought up Religion, I find it funny - despite being atheist even at the time I actually generally enjoyed Religion as a class. It felt easier and more relaxed, and one year we were taught about other major religions and had discussions on Ethics, which were acrually really interesting classes I still remember fondly to this day. (Our teacher kinda went off the curriculum there - despite herself being Orthodox Christian, she spent more time teaching about Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism than the deeeply Orthodox ministry of education would expect of her because those religions were also interesting to her and she didn't want to just glance over them. There's mentions of those in the textbooks but brief and in practice they're not really covered by teachers... and the year we were taught Ethics, the formal subject was called Christian Ethics, but she 'secularised' the year by instead encouraging debate on things like e.g. suicide in class, and brought up literature like Brothers Karamazov to discuss ethical questions. Do I sound like I adored her as a teacher? It's because we all did. We convinced her to not retire for a couple years more from the outpouring of written support she got when she announced her retiring. God, I miss her classes.) Edited June 12 by Raskolnikov "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronM17 5,683 June 13 Share June 13 20 hours ago, Iforgotmybrain said: Did you guys have mandatory religion classes? I find that really interesting, the only religious class I remember having in my public US education was just a general “religions of the world” class which was itself an elective. Love learning about little differences like this. Since I was christened as a catholic, yes, it was a mandatory subject. On later schools (at the time I was not catholic anymore), I had luckily the option to chose either philosophy or natural science. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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