Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for April 02, 2015

Oh my, this will not end well!

My little sister would read the questions and then play a sort of word search to find the answers using keywords from the question. No amount of explaining that is not how you learn the material would convince her to do it the right way.

Actually, this is good. If you manage to pass only listening in class, then at least you are able and have habit to listen in class. Good habit. You do not need to waste your time to things you are not interested about and still pass on acceptable level just doing minimal unavoidable work.And even better, if you want to (and you, not your teacher or mother) you can do extra work. You know how to do it and you can do it, since your other, less important subjects will take minimal required time.

For some… Laziness are like Paperweights or Chess Pieces… It’s just a matter of WHERE you put them… and good timing never hurts.

Sounds right. My class should read these comics. The students who got 20’s should also note “COME TO THE CLASS!!!”

Actually, in the Novel I’m working on I have a character explain the ‘system’ I used to get GREAT Grades in school.

“At the beginning of School, when they give out the books. You read ‘em ALL, all the way through. And when you get to something you don’t understand, you write what the thing you don’t understand is on a 3 × 5 card, and stick it in the book. Then when you get to it in class, you know what you need to ask about.”

“Well, that sounds like a pretty good system, does it work?”

“Oh, yeah! I get WAY better grades now. And lots of times when I get to a question-card, I already know the answer, ‘cause it’s further back in the book.”

I also used to get the next years ‘reading list for English Class’ and read them over Summer. It was usually Two of Shakespeare’s Plays and assorted English and American Classics. Although I never DID manage to geet through “Tess of the D’Urbervilles (sp?)” It was just TOO slow and boring. Fortunately that was the year after the Nastassia Kinsky Movie version came out.

For my kids my daughter worked hard and read her subjects my son not so much and put off homework. I would ask where is the homework she brought it home he did not. Once I had to bring school work to him and he was doing school work just minutes before school. He was to be transferred out.During summer time I got them involved in summer reading time not interested if they gain points they both also got play time. Other kids did earn the points as read far more.For me for on-line studies I have to select key points from question to answer.

This is starting to look like her can’t-miss basketball ability.

Some people can learn by listening, but not I. In math, especially, the teaching would be spouting a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, which I’d frantically take down, not understanding a bit, then would go home, get the textbook, pore over the notes, figure it out, and remember it long enough to do okay on the tests.

Silver linings.Gotta love’em…

Oh boy.

My parents knew I was smart. They never did figure out why my grades would go up and down.

When I took Econ in college the instructors lectures had nothing to do with the assigned reading and average attendance for the class was 5 people a day out of 60. When the first exam came up I felt sorry for all the people who skipped the lectures because they would have no idea how to answer the questions based on the lectures. Then I got the exam and found out that it was just a standardized test on the book readings and had nothing to do with the lectures or the extra reading. I still kept going to the lectures even though I knew there would never be anything in the exams.

“good pointmy son hated studying until he went to collegenevertheless, his teachers were frustrated that he would always score above 93 percentile on achievement testsnow he heads an IT division because he found his passionyou just never know”

Good for him!!But I LAUGH in the Face of that Teacher…

Yep, took extensive notes during the lectures, slept during the study time in my required classes or did homework from other more interesting classes and aced the required classes I slept in, till I found out the teachers would let me go to shop as long as I was getting A’s. There’s a system to this if you’re smart enough.

College was awesome because most of my classes were about subjects I really had to study for and were really interested in.

We always knew Holly was lazy.