I've taken a spanish class in middle school and high school. In middle school, the class was completely useless, complete waste of time. They wouldn't teach how to speak at all. We learned zero grammar(isn't that the foundation of just about any language?), all we show up for class, memorize a list full of nouns and show up to take the test later. No context, no effort to teach us how to use these words in sentences. They wouldn't make us speak or write, just spoon feed us words with definitions. But since we aren't taught any grammar, sentence structure, I spent a year studying and I still knew barely more than what I knew before starting the class. The funny thing is, they would show videos and make us read, but not teach us how, so I would get homework and classwork I have no idea how to do, like I'm just supposed to know.
In high school, they make us write, speak and read a lot all equally, each lesson making things more complex, like a language class is supposed to. It was a very difficult class to keep up with. Where I live, Spanish is the most spoken language, I noticed very soon into the class just walking around in public places I could understand most of the Spanish I heard and saw and I was improving quickly.
But most of all, I prefer studying languages on my own, at my own pace. Most things seems to be better learned by self-studying than in colleges or schools, but it's just not an option today.
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Not really, they only came because there were financial incentives to switch from our erstwhile sister school.
I don't see why doing something because there is financial incentive is a bad thing. That's capitalism. Do you just not like having the opposite gender around?
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My school don't allow phones, they say you're supposed to leave it in your locker if you do have to bring it in but no one listens to this. I just put my phone on silent and leave it in my shirt pocket, never gotten in trouble for it.
The teachers at my school pat you down, while wearing oven mits, so that it doesn't break any rules. It's still weird.
“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
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“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
― John Taylor Gatto
Aside from the fact that humans and chimps are the ones who share a common ancestor this is very correct.
humans and monkeys share a common ancestor too ya dummy
Which ancestor? Couldn't find any. Plus if that were the case then humans wouldn't be the same as primates. It would be monkeys and primates have an ancestor, which they don't.
Which ancestor? Couldn't find any. Plus if that were the case then humans wouldn't be the same as primates. It would be monkeys and primates have an ancestor, which they don't.
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In Canada, they require you to earn at least two credits in French in high school. Luckily I did not have to do that as I had learning issues when I was a lot younger, which allowed me to opt out of this. Anyway the dumb thing is that we are only supposed to learn French because the province of Quebec speaks it, but all of the other provinces are English speaking ones. On top of that, students in Quebec are not required to learn English, within an entirely English country. So how stupid is that? It has to do with protecting their cultural heritage, but to be honest, I don't think they are doing any favours for the kids in the school there, given that the rest of the country and the U.S speak English. Ironically the French we are taught is not event that useful anyway as the dialect that the French in Quebec speak is apparently different from how they speak in France. So outside of Canada, the French we learn is somewhat useless.
On another note, I do find that the school's in the U.S were far better than the ones in Ontario, Canada, where I used to live. When I first went to the U.S several years ago, I got into a pretty good school system and excelled at every subject, and the way the teachers and classes were taught was very different from when I was in Canada. Of Course the education system varies for each state. So there will be some bad states and some very good states for education in the U.S.
I live in BC, and we do not have this requirement.
You are lucky then. I was lucky that I lived in the U.S for a short period of time and had a hard time with a single course when I was really young because this got me exempt from French. It is silly though that everything throughout Canada has to be written in both French and English (Except in Quebec where it's just French I believe), meanwhile English is not a requirement in Quebec.
Teachers that act different all of a sudden because there's a guest in the class that has the teacher under review.
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Yeah, that guy in the avatar is me. I'm *that* strange. It happens. Sometimes people act like that. Just go with it. I can offer help with suggestions even before you post them - NOT make your suggestions - but help you with them.
You are lucky then. I was lucky that I lived in the U.S for a short period of time and had a hard time with a single course when I was really young because this got me exempt from French. It is silly though that everything throughout Canada has to be written in both French and English (Except in Quebec where it's just French I believe), meanwhile English is not a requirement in Quebec.
The farther west you go the less French you will see. The only things here that have French words on them are prisons and other government offices. On one of the highways north of Vancouver, the distance markers are in English and an Aboriginal dialect (not sure which it is) rather than french.
The farther west you go the less French you will see. The only things here that have French words on them are prisons and other government offices. On one of the highways north of Vancouver, the distance markers are in English and an Aboriginal dialect (not sure which it is) rather than french.
Haha that's funny. Not surprising tough, given the historical spats between eastern and western Canada. In Ontario, they have French on essentially everything.
Kids with fake personalities. And the kind that constantly boast about what they have and what other don't have. Boy, American schools are just the worst.
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Yeah, that guy in the avatar is me. I'm *that* strange. It happens. Sometimes people act like that. Just go with it. I can offer help with suggestions even before you post them - NOT make your suggestions - but help you with them.
Monkeys ARE primates... there is a common primate ancestor from which modern day monkey and human ancestors descended
Oooohhhh jeez, children!
Don't you all realize that debating evolution doesn't change people opinions on it? Please don't make this thread devolve into a giant religeous debate...that would just be sad......and kinda fiery because everyone gets all worked up over the issue.....
Everyone give it a rest, it is ultimately pointless to discuss it here. If you guys still really feel super strong about it, put it in another thead.
Haha that's funny. Not surprising tough, given the historical spats between eastern and western Canada. In Ontario, they have French on essentially everything.
I should note that we were required to take French until grade 8, however it was completely optional past that point.
I've taken a spanish class in middle school and high school. In middle school, the class was completely useless, complete waste of time. They wouldn't teach how to speak at all. We learned zero grammar(isn't that the foundation of just about any language?), all we show up for class, memorize a list full of nouns and show up to take the test later. No context, no effort to teach us how to use these words in sentences. They wouldn't make us speak or write, just spoon feed us words with definitions. But since we aren't taught any grammar, sentence structure, I spent a year studying and I still knew barely more than what I knew before starting the class. The funny thing is, they would show videos and make us read, but not teach us how, so I would get homework and classwork I have no idea how to do, like I'm just supposed to know.
In high school, they make us write, speak and read a lot all equally, each lesson making things more complex, like a language class is supposed to. It was a very difficult class to keep up with. Where I live, Spanish is the most spoken language, I noticed very soon into the class just walking around in public places I could understand most of the Spanish I heard and saw and I was improving quickly.
But most of all, I prefer studying languages on my own, at my own pace. Most things seems to be better learned by self-studying than in colleges or schools, but it's just not an option today.
Not really, they only came because there were financial incentives to switch from our erstwhile sister school.
I don't see why doing something because there is financial incentive is a bad thing. That's capitalism. Do you just not like having the opposite gender around?
The teachers at my school pat you down, while wearing oven mits, so that it doesn't break any rules. It's still weird.
If you like threads about mobs, then my threads are mainly about that: http://www.minecraftforum.net/members/AGmantheAG/threads
“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic -- it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
― John Taylor Gatto
Aside from the fact that humans and chimps are the ones who share a common ancestor this is very correct.
If you like threads about mobs, then my threads are mainly about that: http://www.minecraftforum.net/members/AGmantheAG/threads
Which ancestor? Couldn't find any. Plus if that were the case then humans wouldn't be the same as primates. It would be monkeys and primates have an ancestor, which they don't.
If you like threads about mobs, then my threads are mainly about that: http://www.minecraftforum.net/members/AGmantheAG/threads
Well, that is just, like, your opinion, man.....
I actually don't believe in evolution, but I know what it is.
If you like threads about mobs, then my threads are mainly about that: http://www.minecraftforum.net/members/AGmantheAG/threads
In Canada, they require you to earn at least two credits in French in high school. Luckily I did not have to do that as I had learning issues when I was a lot younger, which allowed me to opt out of this. Anyway the dumb thing is that we are only supposed to learn French because the province of Quebec speaks it, but all of the other provinces are English speaking ones. On top of that, students in Quebec are not required to learn English, within an entirely English country. So how stupid is that? It has to do with protecting their cultural heritage, but to be honest, I don't think they are doing any favours for the kids in the school there, given that the rest of the country and the U.S speak English. Ironically the French we are taught is not event that useful anyway as the dialect that the French in Quebec speak is apparently different from how they speak in France. So outside of Canada, the French we learn is somewhat useless.
On another note, I do find that the school's in the U.S were far better than the ones in Ontario, Canada, where I used to live. When I first went to the U.S several years ago, I got into a pretty good school system and excelled at every subject, and the way the teachers and classes were taught was very different from when I was in Canada. Of Course the education system varies for each state. So there will be some bad states and some very good states for education in the U.S.
I live in BC, and we do not have this requirement.
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You are lucky then. I was lucky that I lived in the U.S for a short period of time and had a hard time with a single course when I was really young because this got me exempt from French. It is silly though that everything throughout Canada has to be written in both French and English (Except in Quebec where it's just French I believe), meanwhile English is not a requirement in Quebec.
Teachers that act different all of a sudden because there's a guest in the class that has the teacher under review.
Yeah, that guy in the avatar is me. I'm *that* strange. It happens. Sometimes people act like that. Just go with it. I can offer help with suggestions even before you post them - NOT make your suggestions - but help you with them.
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The farther west you go the less French you will see. The only things here that have French words on them are prisons and other government offices. On one of the highways north of Vancouver, the distance markers are in English and an Aboriginal dialect (not sure which it is) rather than french.
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Haha that's funny. Not surprising tough, given the historical spats between eastern and western Canada. In Ontario, they have French on essentially everything.
Kids with fake personalities. And the kind that constantly boast about what they have and what other don't have. Boy, American schools are just the worst.
Yeah, that guy in the avatar is me. I'm *that* strange. It happens. Sometimes people act like that. Just go with it. I can offer help with suggestions even before you post them - NOT make your suggestions - but help you with them.
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The fact that we weren't allowed to speak negatively about any book we were reading at the time.
Oooohhhh jeez, children!
Don't you all realize that debating evolution doesn't change people opinions on it? Please don't make this thread devolve into a giant religeous debate...that would just be sad......and kinda fiery because everyone gets all worked up over the issue.....
Everyone give it a rest, it is ultimately pointless to discuss it here. If you guys still really feel super strong about it, put it in another thead.
I know, common ancestor means a split. Like humans and chimps split from a common ancestor.
If you like threads about mobs, then my threads are mainly about that: http://www.minecraftforum.net/members/AGmantheAG/threads
I should note that we were required to take French until grade 8, however it was completely optional past that point.
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