On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Deepa Mohan <mohande...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://deponti.livejournal.com/902082.html > > > I find that a lot of people on this list articulate far, far better than I > do. It would help me understand my lifelong aversion to mathematics...and > In my case the subjects I hated the most were biology and chemistry. I *loved* physics, but thought chemistry and biology - at least as taught to me in school - was entirely arbitrary in nature. It was only towards the end of high school I realized that Chemistry is just one corner of the physics tent and that evolutionary biology brought some amount of sense to biology. I used to not understand why I had to memorize the biological classification names of many organisms till I learned the history of classification, etc. Similar in chemistry, I did not understand why I had to memorize the Haber-Bosch process till it was put in context for me by some book. In other words, if I had had teachers who gave me the context for why we were studying something it would have made a world of difference. I would extend such teaching of the context to things beyond the natural sciences. It would have been nice to understand the context in which _Daffodils_ was written. > the odder fact that though I never scored more than 40 percent in Hindi, it > was so well taught throughout school and college that I love it as a > language, though I disliked it as a "subject" of academic achievement. > Hindi was the subject that I most consistently failed (except for the final exams). Thaths -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
