If You Had To Teach Something What Would It Be?

For about 10 years I taught, as an Adjunct, the fun courses at a local University: Marco & Micro Economics, Principles of Finance mostly. I did teach "Technical Analysis of the Stock Market" once and taught Managerial Account to graduate students in an MBA program.

CeeCee - I tried to take Russian in college - it killed my GPA. I cannot learn a foreign language. I struggle with English..
 
Hoot N Annie said:
For about 10 years I taught, as an Adjunct, the fun courses at a local University: Marco & Micro Economics, Principles of Finance mostly. I did teach "Technical Analysis of the Stock Market" once and taught Managerial Account to graduate students in an MBA program.

CeeCee - I tried to take Russian in college - it killed my GPA. I cannot learn a foreign language. I struggle with English..
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Hoot, you are in good company. About fifteen percent of the population is unable to learn a foreign language. No one knows why.
 

Hoot N Annie said:
For about 10 years I taught, as an Adjunct, the fun courses at a local University: Marco & Micro Economics, Principles of Finance mostly. I did teach "Technical Analysis of the Stock Market" once and taught Managerial Account to graduate students in an MBA program.

CeeCee - I tried to take Russian in college - it killed my GPA. I cannot learn a foreign language. I struggle with English..
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Well you didn't pick the easiest language to learn! Hungarian is hard also but I learned that as a child, it was my first language. Children learn easily.
 
Lara said:
If I had to use my skills I would teach Art but if I could teach ANYthing, it would be common sense:drive:
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Funny, right now I am listening to Dickens, working on a painting, and when waiting on the paint to dry I am looking at stuff to respond to on the computer. I should ask your impression and suggestion. This painting is an abstract and the color are rather boldly smeared across a 24 x 30 canvas. I have got red, burnt siena, white, black smeared from the center an moving to block one corner of the painting. Then I have run a ribbon of bright green and white composed of phalo blue with lemon yellow moving from center and playing across the to the opposite corner, then back again, running as small ribbon of green across the red, burnt siena, black and white. At the top of the painting I thought I might put light phalo blue and black with streaks of green and red radiating from the center and moving thru the whole painting. Could put in some purple and organge. That might work better. I am working with a palate knife.
 
Isn't it cathartic to be able to lose yourself in your painting? Yours sounds like an explosion of some of my favorite colors. Did you use Cadium Red Light for your red? That would look stunning next to the Burnt Sienna. I would stop where you're at and not add the purple and orange. Sometimes success comes with knowing when to stop :). That's a tough one for me too.

I love using a palette knife. I need to do that occasionally because it causes me to paint looser with more freedom. I don't get caught up in details that way. It frees me up to be more expressive and the final result has more movement...even if the subject is a portrait or still-life.

You must be good at multi-tasking. I could never listen to Dickens at the same time because I'm so easily distracted except maybe classical music that could just flow through me without having to pay much attention to it.
 
Believe it or not, Organizing! I see so many people who have accumulated so many things and have no idea how to manage them. I would love to get in there and teach them how to sort and organize their "treasures".
 
Big Horn said:
Latin and Greek: my one real regret in life is that I didn't realize how much I love Classics until my early forties.
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That's okay. You may have needed to grow into a certain level of maturity to appreciate them to their fullest. Timing. It's all in the perfect timing.
 
I currently sub in three schools and can teach or be an aide in kindergarten all the way up to high school classes. I try to pass along my own experiences whenever I can and make it a fun day. I'll mention to 4th graders that I subbed in their classroom 36 years ago, and I may have taught their parents too. That raises a few eyebrows. I sometimes get to sub in my grandson's classroom. My favorite age groups are 4th and 5th graders.

I give a few presentations per year along with writing newspaper articles and an occasional book about my passion for baseball history. I'd like to teach others how to build their Family Trees.
 
AMEN TO THAT......I have several friends that are college educated for the most part do have common sense.....however...I have 2 friends that would not know to come in out of the rain....it blows my mind that....they have their MBA'S.....an do not know how to go about life successfully .....how to treat people an have compassion.....I don't have a college ed but I assure you I'd love to teach common sense , some people have none at all....they careless about responsibility , taking charge of their lives or hurting people....guess somethings are not offered as a college course or perhaps taught in school.....
 
I just got a smart phone. Always said I'd never get one, but circumstances made it happen. We got no manual or set-up guide with it. Asked at the company store...nope! So anyway, it would be nice if there were flexible 101 classes on it. The young person at the place showed me some things and said she'd ask the manager if they could do the classes again...won't hold my breath. Anyway, that's certainly needed. I'd probably teach about why people used to have so many superstitions. And why, even now, humanity is clueless for the most part, about the future and what can happen that nobody would ever believe could happen. Even now, we're pretty much unable to comprehend that nothing much is guaranteed. Mostly it's for sure that everyone will die someday. That we're still struggling to understand why very bad things happen...and why we as a species don't prevent some of those things.
 
Linda W. said:
I just got a smart phone. Always said I'd never get one, but circumstances made it happen. We got no manual or set-up guide with it. Asked at the company store...nope! So anyway, it would be nice if there were flexible 101 classes on it. The young person at the place showed me some things and said she'd ask the manager if they could do the classes again...won't hold my breath. Anyway, that's certainly needed. I'd probably teach about why people used to have so many superstitions. And why, even now, humanity is clueless for the most part, about the future and what can happen that nobody would ever believe could happen. Even now, we're pretty much unable to comprehend that nothing much is guaranteed. Mostly it's for sure that everyone will die someday. That we're still struggling to understand why very bad things happen...and why we as a species don't prevent some of those things.
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Here's video's on how to use a smart phone:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...phone&qpvt=How+to+use+a+smart+phone&FORM=VDRE
 
I would probably teach baking, especially bread-making. Or maybe baking with chocolate.

There are other things I could teach, but baking would be my favorite.
 

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