What was your favourite subject at school?

palides2021 said:
That's interesting you say that @hollydolly. I remember in math class (7th or 8th grade) learning how to do BASIC programming. We had to program instructions for our math calculations. That was my first IT instruction. It was fun! We're talking about 1969 or so.
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we didn't have that in our school... I think that if it did exist in our school was probably kept solely for the Boys Technical Drawing class
 
hollydolly said:
we didn't have that in our school... I think that if it did exist in our school was probably kept solely for the Boys Technical Drawing class
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Holly, you make me feel really old! When I was in high school, we had no form of computers that could be programmed. It all had to happen in our heads, then we had to show our work...
 

Bretrick said:
Mine was Home Economics. That is where my love of cooking began
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I'd chosen "Home ECS" during summer holidays. Sadly upon receiving my list of courses a few days before commencement, I was faced without "Home ECS" no Latin either and Biology instead of Physics.

Replacement not approved by me (I now know who was to blame...😤)
Home ECS - Arts
Latin - Speed Reading
Physics - Biology
This happened two years in a row for first two years of secondary. Physics was yanked away again in third year of secondary, replaced by chemistry. By remaining years, we who'd experienced these unwanted changes had complained enough, that thankfully, it was done by us the students, the first day back to school. Phew!

Overall, I'd have to say: Reading Writing Arithmetics
Plus History, Geography, Creative Writing, Foreign Languages, Speed Reading (yes, it eventually grew on me, but later in in life even though it was great for proofreading, it was nasty to my book reading budget 😔).

Don't get me wrong, I love learning. My motto these days is still the same: "A day without learning, is a day wasted..."

I just disliked the buildings and the people in it in general 😂😂😂 I would have been happy to stay at home and continue to learn all required from my beloved Papa. He was a fountain of knowledge. So amazing!
 
In the high school in Hawaii, they offered Drafting as an elective, and I enjoyed it.
Simple tasks, usually involved drawing all sides of an object and learning how to break
things apart mentally. Learning how to read a blueprint was fun also.
Helped me later in life as I dismantled large HVAC systems.

When I transferred to California for one semester my senior year, I HAD to take health and Drivers Ed
to graduate. ( these were geared towards freshmen )
I had my full driver's license by then, so the teacher let me treat it as a 'study hall'.
 
Shop, Drafting, mechanical drawing, economics, Science, Art, Liked Math / Geometry but didn't give a hoot for Advanced Algebra. Skills, ratios, hand tools etc. were easy to understand with growing up on a Farm. Grain farming
mostly occurred as I grew to an adult. Livestock became a pastured - timber connection - all much more mechanical with round bales and grinder mixers. Mostly machinery became my passion. Repairs, welding - fabricating & stuff like that.
 
I took psychology as an elective. Loved it!
I also took 4 years of English, which played a big part of me becoming a spelling/grammar na*i. I do try to control that...maybe the psychology course helped!
 
In grade school...we all ran out to play sports at the RECESS bell.

Endless work-ups and fly-ups, shooting basketballs and tossing and catching footballs. Dodge balls, tether ball, 4-square... much more.
 
English which came easily to me from learning the alphabet phase to punctuation, spelling, reading comprehension and complete sentence construction to literature at college.
History and geography were fascinating to me and they seemed to be complementary facets of the same subject. My teachers in both subjects were fond of their fields and imparted their enthusiasm to me. This was at King George V School in Hong Kong where I grew up....a Yank in a British colony. I was a lucky boy.
 
It seems to me that the lack of knowing who we are has a lot to do with knowing our origins Our history.
As a consequence the younger generations are like nomads. No roots, no way to connect with anyone or anything. They suffer being isolated from the world and where they came from. Who they are and where do they fit in. Such things are important.
WHO AM I? is a question that we all ask. Who am I, where do I belong?
Think about it.
History is so d___ reduced in education yet it should be pushed to the top. All history. No one's version. Just the events of the past that shaped us all.
Provide it all and give the young a chance to look at it and understand.
Censorship is just a way to control what people think. Serves no one but those who wish to control.
need to stop!
rbtvgo
 

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