"Subtract and multiply ...", or What else we should learn at school
A Life / / December 19, 2019
School - it is a paradox. As long as you learn, you want to quickly finish, and finishing, bored and want to return back. 10 years of life - it is a great period of time, for which we receive what we are proud of, and something that I would like to change.
I believe everyone will sooner or later realize that some things he should learn much earlier, for example at school, then life was more meaningful, easier and perhaps even happier. One of the lists of such things today I want to share with you.
In life there are no rehearsals
"After high school, no one will coddle you in adult life." Familiar, huh? For some reason, very often, especially in high school, we are trying to instill the idea that the school - it is something like a rehearsal of life, not life itself. And mistakes in this rehearsal is not fatal - before the premiere is still far away.
But in life can not be rehearsals. It is impossible to take a time-out or in the kindergarten or in the school or at the university or anywhere else. And, by the way, while we are preparing to live, life is.
Little is actually worth nerves
The resulting triple in chemistry - it's not so immensely important, as it seems. Tumultuous attempt to memorize something rarely lead to the desired result, so it is not necessary that the evening before the exam smoothly flowed in:
... tired eyes, to catch up with the dawn.
Zemfira
If we were still in school to understand how important, great and other problems-failures-downs we are "too nervous", it surely would not have spend their nerve tigers in nerve cells in the very things such as a triple in chemistry exam tomorrow and that we there further on school regulations.
Although, you know, very nervous about tigers, I'm exaggerating, because in our life, saying a secret, little is actually worth nerves.
"Do not make yourself an idol"
Remember how it was: "But Vasechkin done, the control of five written all take an example from Vasechkina". Or: "But the neighbors golden child learns to" excellent "and a music school goes, and you have me lazy."
Let others compare you with anyone as they please. Importantly, do not allow yourself to compare yourself to someone - you have your own life, your way, its advantages and disadvantages. By the way, there will always be someone "better" than you - richer, happier, more intelligent. But, as stated in a famous poem:
Someone let brilliantly plays the flute,
But the song takes it out of your soul.
Andrey Dementyev
No one knows how to
... except yourself. I had a friend at school who made me learn physics, and then skipped her with me. The certificate I, incidentally, one triple it in physics, although it's something I just spent the most time.
If we were still in school we have learned to make their own decisions, without succumbing to the herd instinct, and not listening to "Authoritative" opinion of others who are sure they know how to, that could be a lot less painful to take many "adult" truth.
Exceed the limits
I never allowed to interfere with my schoolwork my education.
Mark Twain
We are often told that you should not limit yourself to only the knowledge that we receive from the school curriculum. But we, oddly enough, happy to restrict yourself just because learning "for the mom-dad" and "for show"... If we then realize that all the things that we accumulate - ours and only ours, which do not need anyone else (nor my mother, nor the Pope, nor even Great tick), this would be a powerful stimulus not only failed to score in the compulsory subjects, but also actively engaged in self-education.
And who knows, maybe we would today quietly shprehaet communication Deutsch, instead of saying that the school taught German, but now, of course, have forgotten everything.
By the school you will be back
And we have in mind is not a widespread belief that "man returns to the school where his children are beginning to learn."
You will return to school when one day will take off the shelf "Dead Souls" by Gogol - a remarkable book that has not mastered in the schools. Or you suddenly notice yourself diligently to solve logic puzzles, of which you are so well kept away, as a schoolboy. In this "postshkole" will not count and diaries, parent meetings and examinations, there will be red bean paste remarks. But no promises that this school will be easier.
What do you think about what ought to learn at school? Share in the comments.