Did you enjoy more the learning or the socialisation aspect of school?

[Reecejackox 412]

More I mean

 

I would say socialisation , I enjoyed playing football more than learning Spainish 

[Stardust 642]

Did I enjoy school at all hahaha

Well the learning I guess but being in school that long ugh. The people were meh yeah i met some interesting characters and learnt stuff but it was mostly negative experiences. School itself put pressure on me, physically and mentally. It is where I injured myself a lot from the weight of heavy bags, accidents to the neck and all sorts. I just don't think school was that great at all and when people say it was the best time of their lives I think what are you smoking lololol

Of course like I said I learnt a lot from school some very important lessons and things. Experiences that will stay with me.. some negative yipes.

[ShadOBabe 19,016]

Learning, definitely.

I had friends that I enjoyed, but I feel the people had more of a negative effect on my emotional/mental wellbeing than my hatred of homework ever did.

[Oleks 1,994]

I enjoyed leaving school the most. Learning. School actually was more harmful to my socialisation and social skills than anything.

[Fluttershutter 2,665]

I enjoyed learning interesting things, which was a very small part of school.

Edited July 2, 2020 by Fluttershutter

[SharpWit 2,801]

The socialization for sure. Before I moved after finishing my sophomore year of high school, my friends would make me laugh so hard everyday that I'd fall to the ground crying, and we hung out with each other during school 90% of the time. We're still great friends, but I meet up with them maybe twice a year now and hardly talk inbetween.

I also had a more outreaching reputation and could be more of a figurehead in class settings because there's a very different sense of professionalism amd expectations in the workplace. Luckily I've been able to make friends and have laughs everywhere I've worked, but I do miss how much more of that there was before.

[Electrified Airstream 18,555]

Would have to say the learning aspect as I did benefit from that, as for socialisation my experience at school was completly negative, I was pretty much an outcast and alone most of the time.

[TBD 17,263]

I want to say learning but college ruins that for me. Socialization, never interested in socializing, not anymore after elementary school. Back in elementary I like recess and prefer playing over doing school work. I do the learning on my own account. 

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 42,018]

Wasn't a fan of either aspects. Socializing for me was always this horribly awkward thing that would usually end up with being mocked. Hardly was ever able to make friends. I did have a tiny group of "friends" by the end of high school, but since then I haven't seen any of this. That's over 7 years ago now. The learning aspect was actually even more meaningless to me. Having to learn worthless garbage like Algebra instead of anything even remotely close to useful or interesting made it all feel like I was being groomed to be a typical drone. Been out of school for 7 years and I've learned infinitely more on my own time than school ever taught me in the later years. Not that it has amounted to anything whatsoever but the point is still there.

[Thuja 3,663]

Neither?  I went to a lot of different schools over the years, lots of good teachers, more bad teachers.  Whether I enjoyed learning or not depended on the teacher's teaching method and their attitude.  Like, I enjoyed learning German from one teacher who actually engaged students in a healthy way even though he had to deal with homophobic students compared to a teacher who had to dramatically debate with a 15 year old over the pronunciation of ich while not understanding how dialects worked.

As for socialization, I barely talked to anyone, I was so used to moving and having to say goodbye to people I'll probably never talk to again, so I figured there was no point in trying to make friends.  Sometimes, people would talk to me and I did have a good friend at one of the schools I went to but I never really talked to her much after high school and she recently blocked me when I came out as trans.  I was the kid who would stick to themselves even though that probably wasn't healthy for future me because nowadays I have a hard time talking to people or talking to people unless I need to.

[EpicEnergy 23,240]

I was homeschooled up until college, so I can't really say whether I enjoyed the socialization in school more because I was never really around anyone much else besides my family. As for college though, I enjoyed both the learning and the socialization, but probably the socialization more.

[Cash In 22,760]

For a while I enjoyed the learning aspect of school, but in my final couple of years I got bored of the classwork, with the exception of the one or two classes I was genuinely interested in. At that point, I mostly attended to meet with friends as we didn't really get much other opportunities to see each other. 

[dead account 2,716]

Learning. To me this was the only reason to go to the school. Because of the laws and duty; social stuff has nothing to do with it.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,634]

Socialization. I could've graduated from High School a semester early, but I chose to stay the 2nd semester just to see friends.

[KatonRyu 1,034]

Not too sure, really. In a way I enjoyed both, but in a different way I enjoyed neither. It kind of depended on the year I was in at the time which one I liked better, but overall I think both were okay. I've got a lot more interest in most high school subjects now at 30 than I ever had when I was in school, though.

[Envy 6,298]

Guess who kept herself locked up at home most of the time outside of classes at the previous university? That's me! (Enjoying being home has been a great thing for me during this pandemic, BTW)

That isn't to say that I don't like socializing. I did always talk to fellow students around class times, I was a part of the LGBT club which I sometimes attended (sometimes, I'll explain later), and sometimes I would eat with a group after Wind Ensemble, and one time I attended the music department's Halloween party. Lol.

BUT really, I was there to learn. Learning and graduating were my top priorities, as I'm no longer a teenager or in my lower 20s. I spent a few years of hopelessness, having given up on going back to college to music. I already had a passion - Music History, but back then before I dropped I was going for Music Education and that didn't work out. At that previous university before dropping I was reading sections of the music history textbook that weren't covered by the one course I was taking for fun. I really dreamed of actually taking those classes myself (especially Music History I - Early Music).

Instead I was stuck at an overnight job (which I hated working overnights more than anything. I know that may seem weird, as I hate the sun and everything, but I need a daytime schedule) that while having no stress outside of the job was really weighing me down while I was there because so much was expected of me because I had a work ethic that they saw.

When I was able to quit that job (no more overnight job!) and return to college, the very first semester I had Music History I and I was so incredibly giddy to take this course, especially because since the college I was at before I had really come to love Early Music. Learning was not only my top priority, but was what I wanted to do. In the end, I did end up prioritizing classwork over socializing at times, which is where I come back to the LGBT club. It was weekly, but a large portion of Wednesdays I was swamped with schoolwork and couldn't come. That was a little saddening to me, but it is what it is. I really did kinda need the LGBT club with still not having familial support and also the god awful 2016 election also happening, but I did okay.

[IronM17 5,461]

Nothing of both. School was for me the worst time of my life. I had only trouble in school, with learning and with other school mates. I hated my school time. My life became betetr after I left the school. Even a lot of things I know nowadays (like my english for example) came with the time after school. 

Edited July 3, 2020 by IronM17

[Ixrec 86]

100% learning. I was full Twilight all the way from Kindergarten to college. I even have a few textbooks I liked so much I still have them in my bedroom.

And I intentionally say Twilight instead of Moondancer, because socializing was never difficult or awkward for me. I pretty much always had a group of people to talk to during break periods, and in most classes a classmate or two that always paired with me both to chat and to get the work done efficiently. But also like Twilight, none of those friends were particularly close, and I lost touch with all of them pretty much instantly when I went off to college (unlike her, I did try with a few at the time, but it didn't work). Unfortunately in real life there isn't a sun goddess that simply tells you where to go to guarantee you bump into all of your future BFFs.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Ixrec