Haha I swear I didn't mean to write so much but I ended up just vomiting my feels on the page, it's a subject that's been on my mind a lot lately.
And I totally agree about history and all other subjects, tbh I like history but not the way it's taught in schools, I like learning about how people lived and what they ate and what colour were their wedding dresses and did they read novels. I never cared much about dates and kings and conquests, though I had a really awesome history & philosophy teacher in my fourth and fifth year of high school, so I still remember what we learned in his class because he could make his lessons interesting, he'd tell us anecdotes about how in Prague a couple of ambassadors were thrown from a window into a pile of horse manure and this sparked a war AND SEE I STILL REMEMBER IT BECAUSE IT'S INTERESTING!
Horrible Histories = best, I still have a bunch of those books, I didn't even knew there was a tv series omgwant!
Urgh what I didn't like about literature was that we were forced to learn a bunch of things about symbolism but we couldn't, like, discuss it to see if we had different ideas, I mean what if I read something and it means something else to me? I didn't like the dogmatic aspect to it. But it is a pain in the butt when things are forced on you, like summer reading. I skipped most of the books on my summer reading list because I didn't care one bit about a boring book about Italian people doing boring things, I wish they'd just given us a longer list with more variety. IDK maybe I could have been passionate about it if my teacher had been passionate too instead of acting like she hated his job (and us).
I'm now imagining an internet full of the old women versions of us. The future is going to be awesome.
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Date: 2012-09-07 11:15 am (UTC)And I totally agree about history and all other subjects, tbh I like history but not the way it's taught in schools, I like learning about how people lived and what they ate and what colour were their wedding dresses and did they read novels. I never cared much about dates and kings and conquests, though I had a really awesome history & philosophy teacher in my fourth and fifth year of high school, so I still remember what we learned in his class because he could make his lessons interesting, he'd tell us anecdotes about how in Prague a couple of ambassadors were thrown from a window into a pile of horse manure and this sparked a war AND SEE I STILL REMEMBER IT BECAUSE IT'S INTERESTING!
Horrible Histories = best, I still have a bunch of those books, I didn't even knew there was a tv series omgwant!
Urgh what I didn't like about literature was that we were forced to learn a bunch of things about symbolism but we couldn't, like, discuss it to see if we had different ideas, I mean what if I read something and it means something else to me? I didn't like the dogmatic aspect to it. But it is a pain in the butt when things are forced on you, like summer reading. I skipped most of the books on my summer reading list because I didn't care one bit about a boring book about Italian people doing boring things, I wish they'd just given us a longer list with more variety. IDK maybe I could have been passionate about it if my teacher had been passionate too instead of acting like she hated his job (and us).
I'm now imagining an internet full of the old women versions of us. The future is going to be awesome.