Travis Anderson
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As a child I loved history but dreaded math and science. I became interested in History because my grandfather gave me a book on Egyptian History, which I quickly fell into a deep study of.
However in school my curiosity and interest were rarely sparked. No one explained to me how an understanding of math would help me understand how the Egyptian Empire was run, or how a study of science could help me understand how the Egyptians helped to create and influence many branches of human advancement.
They were forced on me as seemingly separate issues-and I not only didn't learn them-I began to despise them. They were interfering with what I wanted to learn and was truly interested in.
But today I find math and science fascinating and am picking them up quicker than any class could teach me. History lead to politics, politics lead to a study of military history and strategy, those lead to psychology and sociology and so forth until I could become fascinated with almost anything if I saw how they connected with what I was originally interested in.
While they forced me to take a year of Spanish I was on my own learning how to read and write Egyptian Hieroglyphics. I had read over 25 books on the subject cover to cover and took notes-all because I was so interested in them. But not Spanish. It was forced on me and I only saw it as interrupting my interests. I am just now becoming interested in learning Spanish again and my progress in less than two weeks has dwarfed that of a year forced on me in school.
If school was seen almost as a type of punishment to me-I wonder how many other children were turned away from learning but never picked it up later?
So I wonder-how many children are turned away from wanting to learn because they are forced to?
However in school my curiosity and interest were rarely sparked. No one explained to me how an understanding of math would help me understand how the Egyptian Empire was run, or how a study of science could help me understand how the Egyptians helped to create and influence many branches of human advancement.
They were forced on me as seemingly separate issues-and I not only didn't learn them-I began to despise them. They were interfering with what I wanted to learn and was truly interested in.
But today I find math and science fascinating and am picking them up quicker than any class could teach me. History lead to politics, politics lead to a study of military history and strategy, those lead to psychology and sociology and so forth until I could become fascinated with almost anything if I saw how they connected with what I was originally interested in.
While they forced me to take a year of Spanish I was on my own learning how to read and write Egyptian Hieroglyphics. I had read over 25 books on the subject cover to cover and took notes-all because I was so interested in them. But not Spanish. It was forced on me and I only saw it as interrupting my interests. I am just now becoming interested in learning Spanish again and my progress in less than two weeks has dwarfed that of a year forced on me in school.
If school was seen almost as a type of punishment to me-I wonder how many other children were turned away from learning but never picked it up later?
So I wonder-how many children are turned away from wanting to learn because they are forced to?