• Question: did you like school when you were younger ?

    Asked by Chloe✨ to Conor, Frederik, Ilaria, Jeffrey, Sarah on 1 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Frederik Gossen

      Frederik Gossen answered on 1 Mar 2016:

      I did for the most part 🙂 Of course there were subject that I did not like but overall school was a very good time of my life. You will most likely feel the same after it has passed 😉

    • Photo: Ilaria Cinelli

      Ilaria Cinelli answered on 1 Mar 2016:

      Ehm…..I didnt like a few teachers…sometimes it was too slow and I got bored

    • Photo: Sarah Doran

      Sarah Doran answered on 1 Mar 2016:

      Not really. I found it really boring most of the time. In primary school I found it too easy and in secondary I didn’t like needing to study so many different subjects. Music class and Spanish were the best classes!

      It’s cool going to college and studying what you’ve chosen to study and making loads of friends with the same interests as you. You just have to suck it up and get through leaving cert first 😛

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      Conor McGinn answered on 2 Mar 2016:

      Hi Chloe,
      I liked a lot of the subjects – not really the class. Overall I liked school because the sports were great and I had some really great friends. I think there are a lot of problems with our system and how we teach people. Certain things have always annoyed me. Some of them are:
      * listening to a teacher talk for 30+ minutes – nobody can listen that long. Class should be participation based and interactive
      * people should have a say about what they learn and not just be preached at. we learn so much better when we encounter a problem which forces us to learn something new to over come it
      * formal tests are often a terrible and inefficient way of assessing learning. but we still use them for everything
      * nothing can really be done about a bad teacher… isn’t this just the most ridiculous thing?
      * theres not many ways to recognise or reward good teachers. why isn’t a good teacher paid as well as a good doctor? they make the same, if not a bigger difference, imo

    • Photo: Jeffrey Roe

      Jeffrey Roe answered on 2 Mar 2016:

      I liked being at school but not the classes. I went to a boarding school where you only went home on a Sunday for 8 hours.
      It was great to be around your friends for 6 days of the week. They are the best friends I have ever made.

      I will say I did like History class . The teacher could really tell a story. After school one of the teachers ran a electronics club. It was the best fun. We would create all sorts of little circuits. I always wanted to be an engineer but it was this that pushed me towards electronic engineering.

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