What was the most valuable thing you learned in school?

[RepresentingCaution]

You need be your own person and think. Cause starting from day 1, if you don't, you're already at a loss. You got to pick yourself up and not rely on others for help. Help is nice, when it comes. You need have a backup, one that is soluble.

This is why we're not sending our kid to preschool. I read an article about that recently. When kids are forced to be quiet and stand in line and things like that too early, they don't get to develop as a person.

I'll be teaching him things when he's interested and reading lots of books to him, though. He already likes books. He hands me books and asks me to read them (with a crude vocalization, not words yet) when I've got my nipples out for him to suck. Then, he drinks my milk while I read to him. Breastfeeding for two years or longer (as the WHO recommends) has more benefits than just nutrition!

 

[Deleted member 57675]

This is why we're not sending our kid to preschool. I read an article about that recently. When kids are forced to be quiet and stand in line and things like that too early, they don't get to develop as a person.

I'll be teaching him things when he's interested and reading lots of books to him, though. He already likes books. He hands me books and asks me to read them (with a crude vocalization, not words yet) when I've got my nipples out for him to suck. Then, he drinks my milk while I read to him. Breastfeeding for two years or longer (as the WHO recommends) has more benefits than just nutrition!

Its alright for preschool. Went there. Socialize with others at young age.

The part where you need start taking chart of your own life is your college age. Maybe high school for certain programs, but its not too bad. But college.

And one last thing school these last few years has taught. Spend time make friends. Don't always listen to your parents. If they grip the steering wheel in everything you do, you're not doing anything in your life and its unhealthy. That doesn't mean for parents to drop their kids off the bat like kick them out and expect them have someplace to stay the moment they turn 18 esp. in this economy of housing. But ease in and teach them gradually how become independent. Quite few have parents overbearing it seems. And while its good they care, it is also harming those kids because they didn't had much of a chance to do their own mistakes and evolve. So when parents gone, they just splat.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Its alright for preschool. Went there. Socialize with others at young age.

The part where you need start taking chart of your own life is your college age. Maybe high school for certain programs, but its not too bad. But college.

And one last thing school these last few years has taught. Spend time make friends. Don't always listen to your parents. If they grip the steering wheel in everything you do, you're not doing anything in your life and its unhealthy. That doesn't mean for parents to drop their kids off the bat like kick them out and expect them have someplace to stay the moment they turn 18 esp. in this economy of housing. But ease in and teach them gradually how become independent. Quite few have parents overbearing it seems. And while its good they care, it is also harming those kids because they didn't had much of a chance to do their own mistakes and evolve. So when parents gone, they just splat.

It depends on the preschool. Here's the article I was talking about:

A top researcher says it's time to rethink our entire approach to preschool

A long-term study of a statewide preschool program tracked students through the sixth grade and found those who attended prekindergarten falling behind.

www.npr.org

After reading that, and knowing my income won't provide for a high-quality private preschool, I trust myself to provide a better learning environment for my son than a public preschool would. Aside from that, Covid keeps popping up with new variants. I hope that will change by the time he's 5, but I don't know if it will. I'm mentally preparing myself for homeschooling, or at least remote learning, if we don't feel the schools are physically safe for him to attend.

 

[SternenklarenRitter]

Can't say how to read, that was mostly pokemon blue for the gameboy color. Can't say newtonian physics, that was mostly self study during math class from how bored I was, having little to do with actually being in a classroom. Can't say hatred of sports, that's a personal conclusion based on subjective experience rather than any widely applicable characteristics of sports. Hmm. The most important thing I learned in school is that wikipedia exists.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I learned to read, write, and how to patch up any kind of wound with art supplies.

 

[Dudealien]

Virginity is cool

 

[owotrucked]

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and Fourier transform.

 

[nanchengnv]

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell and Fourier transform.

Lol, I learned about Fourier transform from 3Blue1Brown on youtube and used FFT for AI a few times. Never learned about it formally though.
Why do you say FT is among the most important things? Or is it just part of a joke?

 

[RepresentingCaution]

It was the fact that we have to find what we like to do and find someone to pay us for it.

Or at least something we can tolerate doing. Another thing I learned through my psychology minor is that getting paid to do something we like can ruin our intrinsic enjoyment of that activity.

 

[owotrucked]

Lol, I learned about Fourier transform from 3Blue1Brown on youtube and used FFT for AI a few times. Never learned about it formally though.
Why do you say FT is among the most important things? Or is it just part of a joke?

half joke: it's obscure enough so that people might never have studied it
half serious: it's a tool used in many different applications. It's pretty common in signal/image processing but you can use it in physical model. If you get the transfer functions of your system, you can slap different combinations of FT inputs to test its output. The linearity of FT makes it practical and can stay a relevant tool for designing systems.

I might be wrong, but if that's the case, a random island might blow up because of me.

 

[gaylolis]

The courage to ask a question

My science teacher once joked like, "If you're too shy to ask, your tests will be bad."

It can be tough to reveal your vulnerable and lacking side to others, especially when you get older. people might stab you in the back and you might find it hard to find a helping hand.

but i feel it's never wrong to ask for help if you can't handle it on your own. after all, we're not alone in this world. somewhere out there, should be someone who understood your issues and able to solve them together.
even if you're betrayed a few times, it can teach you how to find the right person.

eventually, you will find the company you always needed, because you have the courage to ask when others decide to keep it within and let it torment themselves 'til their death.

as for life in general, including school, i just feel that starting with the bare basics is often the greatest breakthrough point for me. when i kept things simple enough, that i can easily understand them, it's a lot easier to go forward.

well that's all.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

The courage to ask a question

My science teacher once joked like, "If you're too shy to ask, your tests will be bad."

It can be tough to reveal your vulnerable and lacking side to others, especially when you get older. people might stab you in the back and you might find it hard to find a helping hand.

but i feel it's never wrong to ask for help if you can't handle it on your own. after all, we're not alone in this world. somewhere out there, should be someone who understood your issues and able to solve them together.
even if you're betrayed a few times, it can teach you how to find the right person.

eventually, you will find the company you always needed, because you have the courage to ask when others decide to keep it within and let it torment themselves 'til their death.

as for life in general, including school, i just feel that starting with the bare basics is often the greatest breakthrough point for me. when i kept things simple enough, that i can easily understand them, it's a lot easier to go forward.

well that's all.

Asking questions is good! I think that's something kids should learn from their parents, but I think a lot of parents are too busy to answer questions all the time, so the kids stop asking. There's a section on that in the parenting book I just finished reading. If you as a parent get too tired or busy to answer the constant questions, tell them when you will be ready to answer more questions. "I need to focus on making dinner now. You can ask more questions when we sit down to eat."

 

[ChaosGodOfJashin]

When I say school, I'm including everything from elementary school through university.

I know I've talked a lot about being a mom, and some of you may be tired of hearing about it, but if you have any interest in being parents yourselves, I highly recommend taking a human development course through the psychology department of a university. I minored in psychology, and I didn't really know what I was getting into when I chose that course to fulfill one of my requirements, but it turned out to be the most valuable course I've ever taken in more ways than one.

First of all, our professor showed "The Business of Being Born" to the class, and that information saved me from an emergency C-section. I've got more details here if you want to read about it:

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Why was that so important? About a third of births in America are done by C-section, but only about 10% of births require a C-section. C-section births not only require a longer hospital stay, but they can also lead to long-term problems for people delivered by C-section. Of course, it's not a death sentence but a likelihood, and there may be ways to prevent those problems, but it's something that requires further research:

Another, perhaps even more important, thing I learned from my human development course was not to let the literature the hospital gave me scare me away from cosleeping. We got a free hand-me-down crib, and we tried to make it work, but our son didn't tolerate it. While some kids (apparently I was one of them) will sleep in a crib without fuss, many won't. There are safe ways to cosleep, but I think hospitals just tell parents that cosleeping is "never" safe to avoid liability. Unfortunately, this sets parents up for sleep deprivation, and sleep-deprived parents are likely to accidentally fall asleep with their babies in positions that are unsafe, especially if they've never had access to information about safe cosleeping. Personally, when we were trying to make the crib work and I was running around in a sleep-deprived state, I became more afraid of dropping my son than anything else. Before it was too late, I dug up some articles supporting what I had learned in my human development course, showed them to my husband, and we all slept better after that:

What Every Health Professional Should Know // Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory // University of Notre Dame

Professor James J. McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at Notre Dame studies how sleeping and co-sleeping environments affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants’ physiological and psychological well-being and development.

cosleeping.nd.edu

How Cosleeping Can Help You and Your Baby

The decision whether to cosleep with your baby is extremely controversial—and there are two sides to the story.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

What things have you learned in school that made a positive impact on your life?

Math is probably one of em, I also got to learn english, and chemistry. But other than that I actually pretty much hated school because of the awful teachers.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

Heat transfer, conduction and convection and shit. Surprisingly useful in everyday life.

 

[ChaosGodOfJashin]

Heat transfer, conduction and convection and shit. Surprisingly useful in everyday life.

Of course!

 

[BenJepheneT]

Unironically, what I learned in my schooling years are different personality types. Not that 16 personality type gay bullshit, but encountering general characteristics from people, and learning whether we could become great friends or that we just couldn't mesh together at all.

Out of all the possible lessons at school, what fared me the most beneficial was whom to approach, how to approach 'em, and whom to straight up leave the fuck alone. It helped a lot during picking groups for assignments. If I'm feeling studious, I'd sit myself in silence, become the leftover pick, and get grouped with the silent crowd, where everything becomes easy to deal with as you'd most likely be defaulted to be the ring leader. If I'm feeling lazy, I go out of my way to find the more active guys who'll more likely take control. With the small baggage of dealing with creative differences, I can pretty much pass the class on autopilot.

 

[Gryphon]

Practically everything from my English and Lit Comp class. I'm taking AP Lit for my senior year of high school and the teacher is probably the only actual good teacher in the school cause surprisingly, we actually learn things and she actually teaches. You would think with schools implementing more technology would lead to more effective learning, but instead it just turned a lot of them lazy. Honestly, I would be lazy too if I was getting paid what they were, especially if I could just put on a video from youtube that would do my job for me. However, in turn, I learned nothing. Outside of my Lit Comp classes where my teacher would actually teach.

Like, people think its weird if a teacher stands in the middle of the class and goes on a lecture, but to be honest, that's actually just a good way to teach. Especially if a kid is interested in the subject the teacher is presenting. It wasn't just writing down words, dates, or names that have no relevance outside of the test. It would actually be implemented within the overall point she'd make. Because of her, Life of Pi quickly became one of my favorite books of all time.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Heat transfer, conduction and convection and shit. Surprisingly useful in everyday life.

I too use blankets and fans.