Alt text: And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined.
Definitely the most important lessons learned in school are not in the curriculum. Also, I'm surprised the homework bar is so high. Additionally, this comic made me giggle.
Spoiler:
Zeroignite wrote:And you have suddenly become awesome.
joshz wrote:Oh, you so win.
internets++ for aion7.
jerdak wrote:Nothing says hello like a coconut traveling near the speed of light.
I agree wholeheartedly with this comic. That's one reason why I think the Sudbury Valley model of schooling is very beneficial to many children and teens.
Basically, it's a system where there are no classes, no homework, no grades, et cetera. Learn what you want to learn when you want to learn it.
The so-called "wasted" time is more than offset by the fact that when somebody learns something on their own accord, it sticks FAR better than having it hammered into their head.
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The graph changes a bit if you spent those 900 hours drawing comics that you could later scan and turn into a webcomic that gets you invited to speak at Google.
Hah, and poeple pitty me for being homeschooled! Of course few of them know just now leet my home setup is, don't forget the server I'm repairing behind me.
Plus all those days and nights playing computer games on Commodores led to success in that I was accepted by and could relate to people who held positions that I wanted to attain, thus giving me some useful connections.
Some of my teachers/classes were pretty awesome. o.o
I REBEL AGAINST YOUR SCHOOL-REBELLION
Although at this point in time I would just like to get into college and, yes, kick half my required classes. But I mean. I wouldn't have ever met/taken some of the awesomeness if I hadn't been required to. Win some lose some.
alt text wrote:Alt text: And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined.
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firinne wrote:Some of my teachers/classes were pretty awesome. o.o
I REBEL AGAINST YOUR SCHOOL-REBELLION
Although at this point in time I would just like to get into college and, yes, kick half my required classes. But I mean. I wouldn't have ever met/taken some of the awesomeness if I hadn't been required to. Win some lose some.
There are definitely benefits to both methods. However, the losses are more common and drastic than the wins with the typical school style.
Somewhat related: My school is so stupid, they made PE count for our GPA.
Spoiler:
Zeroignite wrote:And you have suddenly become awesome.
joshz wrote:Oh, you so win.
internets++ for aion7.
jerdak wrote:Nothing says hello like a coconut traveling near the speed of light.
I don't know about a Sudbury school, half my time in high school was finishing work in 10 minutes and using the next 45 minutes in each class figuring out how to beat the security and all of the "features" that the school employed. Now? Program for a hobby, SysAdmin for a job. Thank you authoritarian style schooling for giving me the motivation to beat you at your own game and giving me the skills to carry on a career I'll enjoy for the rest of my life!
alt text wrote:Alt text: And the ten minutes striking up a conversation with that strange kid in homeroom sometimes matters more than every other part of high school combined.
CatProximity: davean and randall CatProximity: sitting in a tree EsotericWombat: S-O-L-V-I-N-G?
I just almost fell off my couch laughing. Thanks a lot.
I'm going to rebel and say i didn't mind homework or classes.
See now, THIS is exactly why I have bad grades - I'm always doing stuff that actually has significant impact on my life~! Screw History, I'm not going to be a History teacher or a Historian, my joy is with computers.
As I was home-schooled through all of high-school, for me it was finishing my bookwork by lunchtime and spending the afternoon programming games... and testing them!
i have to quote Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) : "You know how Einstein got bad grades as a kid? Well, mine are even worse!" This strip applies to a lot of us programmers...
so wait, i'm sitting here doing spanish homework, even though i'll probably never take spanish agin, when i could be learning useful stuff? time to re-organizer my priorities...
off to try coding!
Look at me still talking when there's SCIENCE to do!
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sje46 wrote:When did all you big programmers start to program? I figured my time had passed, but I am a sophomore in college, so maybe I can learn something.
You probably shouldn't look at me as an example, then: I started programming when I was six. Being bored in class usually involved things like figuring out the memory-mapping system needed for a port of SimCity to the Commodore 64.
by aion7 » Fri Dec 19, 2008 5:09 am UTC 
well at least it's better than LISP right?
