Ghostbusters said:

TV's Frink said:

Ghostbusters said:

I skipped class a lot. I would go to the bathroom a lot during an hour I didn't like and take a dump (I trained myself to take a dump that hour).

So it was all the school's fault?

When did I say it was all the schools fault? But their methods forced me into isolation in the bathroom during classes I didn't want to go to.

 So it was all the school's fault?

Ghostbusters said:

I find that most of our most innovative people learned these skills outside of the classroom. They're gifted, you can't teach gift. And I don't think innovation get taught in the classroom either.

 Polio Vaccine, Hybrid Cars, Supersonic Jet, iPad, 3D Cinema, High-Yield Corn crops, anti-lock brakes, Space shuttles, Doppler radar, streaming video, earthquake prediction, Blu-Ray, cure for rickets, radiation-therapy, LASIK surgery.

Just a couple innovative things off the top of my head that were invented by people who learned their skills in the classroom, not from instructional youtube clips.

TV's Frink said:

Off the top of your head...or Google?

SCANDAL!!!

 What would I possibly Google-search to get those results?

DWEEB!!

TheBoost said:

Warb said:

 I am curious what Boost thinks of my comments. 

Gee, I feel the pressure.

I had no intention of putting pressure on you, I was just curious what you thought.  

TheBoost said:

I also got bad grades because I was too slow doing things.   Math is a good example of this.   I was very good in math,  but it took me longer to solve equations and stuff like that than it would for others.   The results: a I failed (or got a lower grade than I should have had) a lot of math tests not because gave the wrong answers or didn't know or understand the material, but because I couldn't answer all the questions in the time giving for the test.  

I feel with you here. The question is: what is being tested? Skill at math or test taking ability?

well, since the class was called math or Algebra or Geometry or something like that not "test taking 101", I thought skill at math was being tested.  

TheBoost said:

 

Yet another frustrating thing in math: teachers that only look at the final answer to math questions.  ...  Some teachers would look at the math work and would give partial credit if it looked like you went about solving the equation in the correct way.  But other teachers just looked at the answer and if it was wrong, it was wrong.  

My high school algebra teacher would dock me points because all I'd show was the answer (I could do a lot in my head). I'd get pissed, but he explained (and rightly so I see now) that he was interested in that I know HOW to solve the problem. As he said, he already knew the answers.

I like your algebra teacher.