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Originally Posted by davidthefat
It is the time when kids get to mature and learn life skills. School teaches time management (more like forces it), social skills, responsibility, and school just gives you a taste of every subject to sample.
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I am glad you see that the big purposes of schooling go well beyond the actual subject matter. However I don't think you understand how important these skills are. When you get to college no one will hold your hand at all, if you fail, oh well, there is a waitlist of kids who want your spot. You post on CD more often than everyone about how you are struggling in school and you often blame time management or your ability to get along with teachers, two of the skills that fit right into your description of what "schooling" should be teaching you.
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Originally Posted by davidthefat
They don't teach you why or how; they are essentially teaching you how to do great on tests. The real world is not like that. I would like to think of life as an art. It takes experience; even if the job requires equations, without experience equations are useless.
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This is not true, there are definitely other lessons to be learned beyond the facts in a text book when you are in school (honestly, talk to a 2nd or 3rd grader about a topic they just learned about, you will realize how much you don't remember and that there was never a need for you to have learned that info but you will also realize that learning how to learn is as much the point as the information you are learning is) However you have mentioned multiple times that you want to get into CS, or Physics, or Math. If you study any of these areas at any of the schools you submitted your scores to you will need a very strong math background. The stuff you should be learning this year and next will be information you will be required to recall constantly (trig identities, derivation, integration, etc) It is hugely important that you master the ability to perform the equations before you try to apply them. I made the mistake of taking a Signal processing course concurrently with Diff Eq, I quickly realized how difficult it was to learn to solve differential equations through application. Professors at MIT and CalTech won’t walk you through trig identities, they will often make substitutions on the fly when solving problems because they expect you to just see what the identity was. By not paying attention in Pre-Calc, that is going to be hard for you.
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Originally Posted by davidthefat
I learned that no one can teach me; I am unteachable. The only person that can teach me is myself.
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This statement is completely wrong, I know it is your opinion but I sincerely think this is the least intelligent thing I have ever seen you post. You can be taught. What you actually mean is that you are the only person who can allow yourself to learn. You deciding you are unteachable is strictly stubbornness. You may be able to get away with ignoring your teachers and teaching yourself enough to pass in High school, but in college you will quickly find out that this is not enough to get by, learn the lesson now, other people have a lot to teach you.