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ravenSometimes I can't believe the sheer amount of things I'm expected to know for these exams. Pages upon pages, volumes upon volumes, ten subjects, sixteen exams, that go on and on and on.
And no matter how hard you try to ignore it, there's always the niggling sense that you're not doing it all for any particular reason. You learn it, you regurgitate it, and by the next morning you've forgotten it all. As it flows out of your pen, it flows out of you. It's not worth it, not at all.
Every subject teacher believes his/her subject is the most important of all of them. They want to believe you'll not only remember, you'll learn from this.
But it's not true.
I've spent the last hour or so reading over, not learning, the history of the League of Nations. I don't like it. Partly because it's so long, and detailed, and not particularly interesting, but also because once you have read it and understood it, it becomes the story of a decade-long study in failure. It all went wrong, no-one learnt from their mistakes, no-one knew how to keep the peace and no-one cared.
So, at the end of it all, we have World War Two. I have to learn about that tomorrow.
And no matter how hard you try to ignore it, there's always the niggling sense that you're not doing it all for any particular reason. You learn it, you regurgitate it, and by the next morning you've forgotten it all. As it flows out of your pen, it flows out of you. It's not worth it, not at all.
Every subject teacher believes his/her subject is the most important of all of them. They want to believe you'll not only remember, you'll learn from this.
But it's not true.
I've spent the last hour or so reading over, not learning, the history of the League of Nations. I don't like it. Partly because it's so long, and detailed, and not particularly interesting, but also because once you have read it and understood it, it becomes the story of a decade-long study in failure. It all went wrong, no-one learnt from their mistakes, no-one knew how to keep the peace and no-one cared.
So, at the end of it all, we have World War Two. I have to learn about that tomorrow.
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Success
on 2003-01-11 11:22 am (UTC)When I was about fourteen, making choices for O-level, the shape of the timetable meant that we mathematicians and scientists had to choose either history or geography. We couldn't do both; we couldn't do neither.
The history teacher said to me "you should do geography".
The geography teacher said to me "you should do history".
So I did geography, and got a "u". Too many facts, do you see?
Re: Success
on 2003-01-11 02:08 pm (UTC)Whatever that means.
And then there's my maths teacher, who... well, she doesn't like me very much. If you want to be tactful about it.